I know excessive salt contributes to it, but I don’t really eat salty foods. For many years, I’ve been hearing that stress can also contribute to hypertension. I’ve been SUPER stressed out lately! Worried about a LOT. But my nurse practitioner said that stress has nothing to do with my pressure being high.
Your nurse practitioner is WRONG. When you are stressed, your sympathetic nervous system (aka fight or flight response) kicks in and releases epinephrine into your blood stream, increasing your blood pressure, heart rate, ect. You may have naturally underlying high blood pressure, but stress will increase it even further. Temporary stressors (like almost falling off a cliff) that raise your BP are not harmful, but a normal response. However, if you have chronic stress and high blood pressure, you need to have the high BP treated so your heart and blood vessels do not sustain damage and you also need to find some way of relieving stress that works for you. (exercise is best).
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February 5th, 2010 at 12:51 pm
of course stress adds to u and makes your blood pressure high…ppl say when thier mad,oh ur raising my blood pressure,when i get stressed my pressure raises,also at doctors offices,its stressful to go in,so it raise.yes it raises,but u just need to control it
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high blood pressure is stress related
February 5th, 2010 at 12:56 pm
Your nurse practitioner is WRONG. When you are stressed, your sympathetic nervous system (aka fight or flight response) kicks in and releases epinephrine into your blood stream, increasing your blood pressure, heart rate, ect. You may have naturally underlying high blood pressure, but stress will increase it even further. Temporary stressors (like almost falling off a cliff) that raise your BP are not harmful, but a normal response. However, if you have chronic stress and high blood pressure, you need to have the high BP treated so your heart and blood vessels do not sustain damage and you also need to find some way of relieving stress that works for you. (exercise is best).
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Cardiac RN
February 5th, 2010 at 1:36 pm
Maybe you have misunderstood your nurse. Hypertension can be stress related but on a short term basis, chronic hypertension may have other causes. and the nurse may have meant that this is not the underlying problem in your personal cicumstances she may be relating her info on your medical notes takee it up with your dr and ask why this is…
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