Are you aware of what your blood pressure is? Or for that matter, what your family history regarding your blood pressure or heart disease is? Do you know how to tell if you are having blood pressure symptoms? If you don’t, you should get that information as you can as it can eventually cost you your life if you don’t. Literally thousands, maybe even millions, of Americans are walking around ticking time bombs. Not many younger people, meaning ages 20 to 45 are aware of their numbers or their histories and are certainly unaware of blood pressure symptoms.
The average person who goes to the doctor for a checkup or physical, if healthy will come up with a systolic pressure of around 120 or lower and a diastolic pressure of 80 or lower. However, it will take what is called a blood pressure series to confirm what your personal normal is as it may not always be the numbers above. We will get into the area of blood pressure symptoms in a moment after you understand what those numbers mean. In the medical community, they say ‘too high and you die’. This is referring to the diastolic pressure number which is reflected above by the number 80.
This is the most important number because it gauges how hard the blood is hitting the walls of the arteries and veins when your heart beats. This is why some of the blood pressure symptoms are associated with stroke as well. You will harden the arteries and thin the walls until you either form clots or break them. This is why it is so important knowing how to prevent blood pressure symptoms from ever occurring.
Let’s try and recognize for a moment what kind of symptoms you can expect that may make you suspect you are suffering from the silent killer.
1. When you are upset or stressed, do you turn red in the face and the ears?
2. Do you have unexplained dizziness or light headedness?
3. Are you experiencing any chest pain?
There are not a lot of tell- tale blood pressure symptoms. The dangerous thing and why they call it the silent killer is, guess what? They are silent or very subtle and can be masked by any number of other conditions that are very benign. Blood pressure symptoms such as the ones mentioned above, will be sometimes different in women than that of the common blood pressure symptoms found in men.
If one has blood pressure symptoms, one should hurry to the doctor’s office as soon as possible to make sure you can begin to heal the situation. Prevention before the onset of blood pressure symptoms is best but if you are already experiencing this, you can do a lot to prevent the issue from staying around forever. That is right; you can actually reverse the blood pressure symptoms before you have to take medication for the rest of our life. The doctor may suggest these things for your blood pressure symptoms. Exercise, salt free diet; among other dietary changes, and stress reducing activities.
If you are experiencing continued blood pressure symptoms, you should not attempt any self help remedy on your own until you get a physical. Blood pressure symptoms can mask other diseases that can cause the very blood pressure symptoms you are experiencing.
