Gestational high blood pressure question

Kondasa · April 2011

I have never had high blood pressure until 20 weeks pregnant. They said it was pregnancy induced high blood pressure. They gave me some techniques to lower it (prenatal yoga, lower my salt, drink more water and laying on the left side).

Well I had my blood pressure checked today and it was 130/70 which was down from the 140/80 at my 20 week appointment. In my opinion that is not lowered enough

Has anyone had a high reading during pregnancy and was anyone successful with bringing it down?

liv97 · April 2011

I was somewhat successful the first time, and successful so far this pregnancy. I did acupuncture, yoga, hiked a lot, mediated, ate lots of protein last time. this time i'm also going to an osteopath, eating more protein, eating lots of fermented/probiotic food, avoiding (mostly) processed food...and i think that's it.

130/70 is fine though. you might also want to monitor it at home, it might be that it's normally a bit lower, and just happens to be higher at the office

GdAsAu · April 2011

If it makes you feel any better, I am only 17 weeks and my blood pressure is almost exactly what yours is. I was always a consistent 110/70 before pregnancy but at my last appt when I was actually about end of 15th week, blood pressure was 140/80. I got blood work done and did some 24hr urine test (bc all samples taken at appts showed no protein) but all those tests came back in perfectly normal range. I went in the a blood pressure check again a couple days ago...still up high...it was 140/70 at beginning of appt and 136/80 at end of appt. I was told that everything was fine...so I am wondering if the elevated blood pressure is stress related for me maybe? Just wanted to let you know that I feel your pain and that there are others out there in the same boat

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