What impact did withdrawal have on your blood pressure?

[[Mi...]]

I've always had low blood pressure but now when I get it read at the doctor's office it's between 130-140/60-90...very high for me.

 

Also, I had a procedure in April, lithotripsy, to break up a kidney stone that a study showed increased blood pressure in some people.  The procedure received a lot of bad press a decade ago because of it. When I asked the urologist about it he blew it off (as he did with everything I asked him and said don't ready google) but I had no choice and went ahead with it.

 

I've had my blood pressure read three times since, anxious every time and it's high. So I'm wondering if others have experienced a spike in blood pressure from being off meds and what did you do about it?  I'm starting to get freaked out a little.

 

EDIT: I am really freaked out and not sure I can keep going on without a benzo. Feel like my body is being destroyed by anxiety.

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If that's high for you, you are fortunate. I'd be happy with those blood pressure readings.

 

Going off benzos can increase blood pressure for a while due to anxiety. Possibly that is all that is going on.

 

Also, being anxious in the doctors office can cause higher readings there. You can buy a automatic blood pressure machine in a pharmacy and monitor it yourself at home. That'll give you a truer indication of your usual blood pressure.

 

My blood pressure was high at the end of withdrawal and I went on blood pressure medication. However yours is within normal limits and I doubt you require that.

[[ca...]]

I don't want to paint with to wide of a brush but my experience is similar to yours. I have a bp cuff at home and monito my bp at home occasionally.  Even at home my bp is a little higher than what it has been in the past. It use to be in the 120/80 range. It is now around 135/90. The times I have gone to the doctor it is higher than that. A year ago I had some tests done and my bp was really high then. It has come down since then. I will not take bp meds! Never!

[[Bu...]]

My blood pressure is normally low 90s over 60s.  I've found that in withdrawal it tends to be higher in the morning 110s/120s over 70s and then normal/low in the evening 90s/80s over 60s/50s.  I am keeping an eye on it and use some extra salt if it gets too low.  I think the swings are withdrawal related and hope it stabilizes during recovery.

 

Hang in there!  The anxiety is rough because we are in fight or flight and so unbalanced right now.  Our bodies' are trying so hard to re-balance everything and recover. 

[[lo...]]

My Blood pressure was very high (216/164 comes to mind) after my c/t, this seemed to persist for a couple of month and after that a couple more months of spikes for me. However on Wed. I went to the doctors, I like him, the woman in the office as really nice, but even still the anxiety was high because at the end of the day he is a doctor, I knew I would tell him about my c/t and that he wouldn't believe what I was experiencing. So I anticipated my BP would be high, to my surprise it was 110/80. Just one more thing that seemed to be adversely effected by xanax all along. My BP has been high for years!!! Granted, I assumed it was a 1/2 dozen really awful things that happened over the last decade or so, as did my doctors! Nope for me it was xanax and obviously withdrawal made it worse. I will take 110/80 every day of the week.

 

I'm sorry your BP is running high for you. I hope you feel better soon. 

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my BP was always great until I finished my taper.  For over two years after it was elevated.  I also would have the doc test it at the beginning and again at the end of the visit.  My BP always dropped towards the end but it was still elevated.  I was getting readings of 150/90.  Now it tested  110/68 last visit.  These drugs knock everything out of whack in our system.

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My BP at the doctors office has been as high as 160/110.  This is higher than my normal which is about 135 / 85.  Withdrawal really pushed it up and in the worst of withdrawal it was often sustained at 170/120.  Again, all this stuff messing with our sympathetic and parasympathetic nervous system...... blaaaaaaahhhhhhh.  Bad news when it goes sideways.

 

Hopefully BP will return to somewhat normal when withdrawal finishes.

 

-RST

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