Like everyone says, see the doc, I have had High BP for about 15 years, I take 5 tablets a day to help me, but I have a family history of heart disease. There are many ways to help yourself - low fat diet, exercise, change your lifestyle if you are in a stressful job, give up smoking, I have lost 2 stone, I have not smoked for 20 years, walk at least a mile a day, have minimised my stress levels and I have now started getting angina pain. Well one doctor says it is and another says it isn't! It starts in the front of my throat and sort of makes it feel tight, if I try and ignore it and dont take my nitro spray, it moves into my jawbone and my left shoulderblade and makes me want to curl up into a ball. I dont get breathless but I find it difficult to breathe - sound familiar to those who suffer? Frightening thing is, I seem to be suffering this pain every day at the moment, My doc has at least put me down to see a cardiologist!
Isn't life fun!
Lucy