One day I was at a floor meeting in college (in September) and all the sudden, i saw black for a few seconds (

Question

One day I was at a floor meeting in college (in September) and all the sudden, i saw black for a few seconds (and no one else did)....I asked them if they had......or if the lights flickered...they did not. So, I rushed to call my mom on the phone. Told her what happened. Next day, I went home and went to the doctor and my blood pressure was 140/100. Ever since then, I've been taking Loprssor 2 times a day. My doctor put me on HCZT, but it didn't help much. So now we're trying Prinivil.

**** Why did I see black for a few seconds??***
Scared me SOOO bad!!!!!!!!!!

Answer 1

High blood pressure. Thats what it sounds like to me. My father has hypertension..where his bloodpressure is skyhigh! He has to take blood pressure medicine, were afraid that if he doesn't take his meds everyday, he'll litterally have a heart attack. And you can tell when he hasn't, cause he gets all hyper..hence the fact they call it "hyper"tension. When I found out I was pregnant I was so scared to tell him that I was, because of his condition, and as much as I hate to say it, he gets worse almost every year!

Answer 2

i've been taking medical classes for a couple of years now, and we recently took a study on blood presure. was it just really really random when you saw black? Or did your head hurt earlier? One of the common things in high blood presure is when you feel presure pushing on the back of your eyes, or your eyes just hurt in general. It hurts more to look into light. Try to controll your blood presure, and if you already haven't get one of those self metering blood presure things to put in your home. Check it when you need to, or when you feel funny. Tell someone, especially if you're constantly feeling dizzy.

Answer 3

increased interocular pressure caused your eyes to not let light hit the retina