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High Blood Pressure Symptoms – Overview

When my friend Brad told my about his nervousness and high blood pressure symptoms I told him to call his doctor. While I am distress from high blood pressure since years and know several about it, I am not the someone to ask for advice. So Brad went to the doctor and here is what he said.

Brad is not too old yet, just 31 but he is obese. He weighs 290 lbs and is only 5’09. He has a variety of symptoms which make him nervous. He is anxious of having too high blood pressure and clogged arteries. He recently went on diet to lose some weight but the symptoms got even worse.

Two times a day he has periods of shallow breathing that take some hours and is noisy. He also feels several pressure on his chest followed by tingling in his face and arms. He is doing fine while asleep, the troubles are just during the day.

He is already taking a little Remeron for depression since years and wonders if this has somewhat to do with his symptoms. The medical doctor said that since he is guy and obese that he these two danger factors alone ought to be monitored. However, a heart or problem would cause him to breath deep and rapid and not shallow.

At his age it is also not too likely to have blocked arteries already that are hazardous already. He advised Brad to make an echocardiogram if he is very worried. This cost about thousand Dollars. The general practitioner thought that the symptoms Brad described could come from simply overbreathing. Exhaling carbon dioxide too fast makes the blood alkaline and the anxiety tingle.

Since Brad is taking medicine for depression nervousness the physician he told Brad to watch his thoughts and count his breaths per minute to find out if he is just overbreathing.

Of course, obesity is always bad for blood pressure. The physician advised Brad to lose weight if potential, discontinue smoking and do a little work out regularly.