At my appt yesterday I had high bp (150/100) and protein in my urine. They sent me to the hospital for some bloodwork and monitoring and my bp fell to 138/78. My bloodwork came back all normal so they sent me home. I'm supposed to call my dr. today to talk about being induced next week, which surprised me. Prior to this visit, my bp has always been normal - it was high once (not sure what the number was) but they had me lay on my side for 10 mins and it went down.
I'm wondering to those who were induced early for high blood pressure, how high was it? Was it one reading or several weeks in a row? Were there other factors? When were you induced?
Thanks in advance!
Re: Anyone being induced due to high bp?
I was.
Pre-pregnancy, I always had slightly low blood pressure. At about 34 weeks, it suddenly went into the dangerous range but would drop when I laid on my side for 10 minutes etc. The OB put me on modified bed rest (in bed whenever not at work, which is a desk job) and at 36 weeks added meds. There was no protein in the urine and all bloodwork was fine.
At 38 weeks, nothing was improving (usually about 140/110) and my fundal height had stopped increasing so she told me to start coming in twice a week for bp checks instead of just at the weekly appt. She was going out of town so my next bp-only check was with another dr at the practice, still at 38 weeks. Well she had a much lower risk tolerance than my OB and suddenly I was being admitted to L&D. There was a little protein for the first time too. The OB on duty at the hospital agreed that induction needed to happen immediately. I was really unprepared for that mentally. My OB hadn't been bringing that up as a possibility. She'd only talked about moving me to full-time bed rest. We didn't have bags packed or anything. And I wasn't at all dilated/effaced.
It ended up going pretty smoothly. 10 hours from admission to delivery and no c-section. Nine days before due date. He was just under 6 pounds (and 20.5") despite DH and I both being large babies. Apparently that's a normal thing with high blood pressure.
I'm being induced on Sunday due to pre-e. My blood pressure has remained around 145/85 for about a month with little fluctuation and I have protein in my urine.
I have no other symptoms of pre-e (no swelling, headaches, blurry vision, etc), but my doctor is afraid of me "going sour" and is uncomfortable letting me progress to 39 or 40 weeks.
It is probably to be on the safe side, where you will be 39 weeks next week, inducing the baby isnt a big risk to the baby, but pre-e can really complicate things. where you have protien in your urine and fairly high blood pressure, they probably want to stay on the safe side.
I was induced at 37 weeks for 158/99 and protien in my urine. Before they induced they did 2 24 hour urine catches and in the time that they were doing that I started having visual disturbances and headaches. Once the other symptoms started they stopped with the testing and started the induction.
I would get familiar with the symptoms of pre-e and call your doctor if you start having any new symptoms especially head ache or visual stuff.
I'm in the exact same situation. I have elevated blood presure, but no protien or any other issues. I've been put on a modified bedres and I go to the dr once per week. The specialist I saw said I would probably deliver between 36 and 38 weeks. He didn't say the word induce, but I assumed that is what it would come down to so I'm mentally prepared.
I'm being induced a week from today for high BP. I'm also in a similar situation as OP. No protein in my urine, my blood tests came back normal, but my bp just keeps going up and up. Rest helps to bring it back down, but at the doctor on Wednesday (where I learned he wanted to deliver by next Friday at the latest) it was 150/92. My normal bp pre-pregnancy was always VERY low, so this is high for me.
I had also been having some pretty severe headaches with visual disturbances (flashes of light). I think that my body is creeping up on Pre-E, and my doctor wants to deliver before it gets to that point.
Good luck!