Can anxiety get your blood pressure up?

Question

I went to the clinic and they said my blood pressure whas a little high. how do i get it back to normal?

yea i think it was just that point in time, cuz when i was at the clinic i was hella nervous cuz i thought i was sick. i shouldnt worry so much, that certainly wont help my blood pressure.

Answer 1

yep. If you're not taking medication then practice slow deep breathing exercises and try to begin a daily practice of meditation.

Answer 2

Yes. It is common knowledge that stress/anxiety can increase ones blood pressure. There are a number of activities that you can do to help counteract anxiety. Some things that are easy and fun and decrease anxiety induced hypertension include: yoga, meditation, exercise, diet (very low salt), and other leisure time activities. If your blood pressure is higher than 140/80 I would go talk to a doctor about BP medication. The BP medicines we have now are relatively inexpensive and well tolerated with few side effects.

Answer 3

Yes it can. What you need to do is relax. It should be based in a series of reading rather than a single measurement for it could be influenced by emotional state or physical activity. There is a term, and I believe that doctors call it white coat hypertension. It is when blood pressure is elevated while in the clinic perhaps due to anxiety, nervousness, etc. But normal blood pressure while not within the clinic. Check out the link to learn more.

http://www.clevelandclinicmeded.com/ccjm/august2002/pickering.htm

Answer 4

Anxiety can raise your blood pressure quite high. I recently suffered from this. I have severe anxiety problems and the thing that helped me was an anti anxiety medicine called Buspar. Since I have taken this medicine, my blood pressure went from 160/90 to 108/80. It has also helped control my anxiety.

Answer 5

"Anxiety can raise the blood pressure by as much as 30mm Hg. The fight or flight automatic response to danger is manifested in a raised blood pressure"

Yes, anxiety will make your blood pressure high,
everytime I go to my family doctor I just get nervous and my blood pressure reading becomes, so what she do is try to repeat it several time...

"It has been noted that a persons blood pressure is always higher when measured by a doctor and to a lesser degree by nurses. This is known as (white coat syndrome)"

from http://www.correctbloodpressure.com

Answer 6

yes, once I was having an axiety attack at a doctor's office, they took my blood pressure and it was really high for my age--like 140/100 something like that, which is borderline hypertension, but my blood pressure is usually like 112/90. Being anxious and your mood has a direct effect on your blood pressure--it's not just a myth that anxiety and emotional distress can lead to heart attacks and death. There is a direct connection between body and mind.

Answer 7

Yep, it sure can. We see it all the time in hospitals and doctors' offices. We call it "white coat syndrome." You should still check your blood pressure on a daily basis with an accurate machine (not the ones you see in the stores), and check it after you've been sitting and relaxed for about 10 minutes. If it's consistently high, take the list with the numbers back to the doctor. You don't want to mess around with high blood pressure.

Answer 8

If you think it is anxiety you have to find out what your so upset about and try and take care of it. sometimes your diet and living habits can get your blood pressure up i would get a physical and go from there.

Answer 9

anxiety will definitely increase your blood pressure. You should check it a few more times to get a good baseline to see if you have hypertension or if the increase was due to the stress of going to the doctor's office (this is very common).

Answer 10

Anxiety can cause an elevation in pressure. You might consider cutting down on fatty foods and watch you meat intake if it continues to come up high.

Answer 11

anxiety most definitely raises your blood pressure. i have an extreme phobia about doctors so mine was always sky-high when i had an appointment. i tracked my b.p. over the course of a week and found it was normal most of the time. i now have a prescription for valium that i have to take before each doctor or dentist appointment - does the trick!