Anyone suffered with postnatal preeclampsia?
I'm 6 days PP and ended up getting induced a day before my due date as I had protein in my urine and high bp. I've had my baby now but blood pressure is still up, I've been put on labetalol and also nifedipine as my bottom figure is still just over 100..
The anxiety I get everytime a midwife puts the cuff on is horrible every other day, it's only been six days. They wanted to keep me in for 24 hours but I said no and they added another medication. The woman told me 'you're probably going to have high blood pressure for life now' and it's just made me really depressed. Any one else experienced this? How long did it take to stabilise..
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Could you ask for a monitor at home? I have one at the moment whilst pregnant as I have chronic (controlled) high bp. I find it’s much higher at appointments from stress, but at home it’s normal readings.
Wow that comment from the midwife of lifelong high blood pressure is straight up incorrect and just gives you unnecessary worries! Weird!
I literally was almost dying during labour due to pre-eclampsia induced high blood pressure. Like when I say high, I mean 180/110 or higher. It was gone within a week or two. I was on Nifedipine and stopped when the GP agreed with the decision about 2-3 weeks postpartum.
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I'm 6 days PP and ended up getting induced a day before my due date as I had protein in my urine and high bp. I've had my baby now but blood pressure is still up, I've been put on labetalol and also nifedipine as my bottom figure is still just over 100..
The anxiety I get everytime a midwife puts the cuff on is horrible every other day, it's only been six days. They wanted to keep me in for 24 hours but I said no and they added another medication. The woman told me 'you're probably going to have high blood pressure for life now' and it's just made me really depressed. Any one else experienced this? How long did it take to stabilise..
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