very high blood pressure after delivery

Did anyone have very high blood pressure after delivery? My c-section was 8 days ago and it rises every day. I am alarmed - it was 150/107 this morning. My ob put me on blood pressure meds, but it doesn't seem to be helping. She was thinking maybe pre-eclampsia, but I have no other symptoms, and we are waiting for lab results. Any ideas???
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Jcs

 

Did anyone have very high blood pressure after delivery? My c-section was 8 days ago and it rises every day. I am alarmed - it was 150/107 this morning. My ob put me on blood pressure meds, but it doesn't seem to be helping. She was thinking maybe pre-eclampsia, but I have no other symptoms, and we are waiting for lab results. Any ideas???
I will cross post at first year board...
Jcs

 

It sounds like you have postpartum preeclampsia. It can hit anytime after delivery up to 6 weeks even if you didnt have pree in pregnancy. Please, PLEASE be very careful. If you start to experiece visual changes, pain under your right breast, swelling, a headache that wont go away or your bp gets any higher, please have someone drive you to L&D ASAP. Just a warning, because I think its important you know, pree, even after delivery can also turn into eclampsia, which means you would have a siezure. Some woman are hospitalized again and started on magnesuim sulfate to keep you from seizing. Please be careful.

 

My blood pressure shot way up after my c-section as well. During my entire pregnancy it was always on the low end of normal, but post delivery it went way up. I also swelled up big time.

It never got high enough to be put on meds, but since my babies were in the NICU they had me visit the L&D triage each day to get my BP checked. It went down after a week.

I'm glad you are being monitored and put on the meds. Hopefully it goes down soon. It scared the bejeezus out of me because my BP is never, ever high.

 

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Thanks!