JohnyT2
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Well yes of course they have monitors that go that high, that's how I got my reading!
I had a very bad whiplash injury years before that and have had recurrent neck pain ever since. I had been out on a day trip with hubby who drove faster than I would like on windy roads, and had really bad neck pain again, hence the visit to the doc who was a new doc in the last year of his training. He took my BP as a matter of course and then flew out of the room to get help as the monitor broke. So did the next one. The 3rd one gave the 240/180 reading. The neck pain had been pressure building in the veins at the back of the neck. He told me I was hours off having a stroke and I had 2 choices, go straight to hospital or take BP tablets over the weekend and have only very gentle exercise, no stress and come back on Monday. I chose the 2nd option and by Monday the top figure was down to 200.
No I wasn't on any medication at all at the time. I had had BP at 160/100 2 years before that, but my doc monitored it and it came down to normal levels without drugs. The neck pain was my only symptom.
Oh, thats terrible, I hope you have recovered well.
Generally its been said high blood pressure has direct impact on organs more so on kidneys and when they say high its generally 140-190 so when i saw 240 i was like does it goes upto that high...because i thought meters where upto 200 or 220.