Blood pressure @ 17 weeks

What is your BP?

156 / 89

That is just above borderline. I'd see a doctor if this happens more than occasionally.
My OB told me anything over 140/90 is concerning. I had mine jump to 165/95 a few times in my 1st pregnancy and had to go to hospital.

They will likely put you on labetalol which should help.

Try laying down for 10 minutes, recheck, and if it’s the same then go to the emergency room

Do you have any headaches, blurry vision, abdominal pain?

I’ve had consistent headaches the entire pregnancy and they already have me on baby aspirin. Vision issues for sure and have had pains in my stomach but just assumed it was ligament pain. Mostly pain in the left arm and left side of my stomach/hip

so far all we can gather is everytime I stand up my blood pressure shoots up drastically because I almost black out constantly

You should go to emergency if you are having new blurry vision and stomach pain. It could be pre-eclampsia.

yeah it went from 156 down to 140/85 after 10 minutes

Continue to rest then. Monitor ever 30 minutes. Did you just have a meal recently?

no meal. I think I may go in just in case

Eat first because they’ll have you on NFO for a while

what’s NFO?

No Food Order

What is your baseline? Your baseline tells a lot.

Rest and take the readings on both arms. If it’s consistently high, go to the nearest emergency. Also, whats your pulse rate?

pulse was between 98-110 each reading. And I did both arms but still high on both sides.

baseline is about 140/85 most of the time. Didn’t really go any lower than that

Mine has always been on the lower side , but my doctor said if it doesn’t come down then there’s an issue . I would get it checked out immediately

Any update??

still at the hospital. Too early for labour and delivery to take me since I’m not 20 weeks. Waiting 9 hours just to be moved to the next area to get a room. So far my blood pressure has calmed down while here. They did a heart test, blood work, more blood work and fluids and urine test. They said we can do a chest xray if I want but I don’t think they have any answers for me from the sounds of it.

Oh lord🤦🏽‍♀️🤦🏽‍♀️

What did they say now?

said nothing they can do. I have to ride it out and try to be careful while taking care of my toddler on my own

Definitely take it slow. No lifting greater than 10lbs this early in pregnancy, definitely drink a literal shit ton of water, and rest as much as you can

may be tricky as my 18 month old is 24 lbs 😬 and yeah I drink so so much water constantly. She said I’m doing all the right things