I have MS. My blood pressure has been almost entirely consistant at approx 110/70 for years. All of the sudden it has started to vary aalmost hourly. For example in 4 readings tonight within an hour it was 124/70,160/108, 135/108 (five minutes later), and finaly 114/70. I've had no changes in meds and if anything my stress level is lower than it has been in years. I can feel when it's changing. when it was at it's peak, my vision was affected (kind of dark around the edges is the best way to explain it) and i was nausious. My GP is aware of the changes, but not the really wild changes f last night.I was in his office the day before and over the 2 hours it varied from 101/70 to a max. of 135/75 then back down to 124/ 74? Should I call him today (he and his nurse have friday's off) or can I saftly wat until monday (unless anything else changes) and his suspiscion (amongst many other possabilities) is an issue with my pituitary gland caused by my MS, do you have any other ideas? (thyroid, diabities, Cardiac, and sexual gland are his main ideas and I'm having labs done to check these off before we colaborate even more with my neurologist and go that route). Any advice would be helpful, despite all the changes in my body from the MS, the feelings I get with this has definatly scared me the most. In fact I have just taken the MS stuff in stride, even though I get extreme pain and my involentary movements and tremors have gradually worsened along with significant cognative deficit's (as prtially illustrated by my worsening spelling). My normal team will obviously help me make treatment choices but if anyone has any other ideas I would love to hear them so I could put them on the table as we search for a cause. Thank You very much and God bless! I have 3 children and have already lost so much quality time with both them and my wife and I don't want to lose any more. I'm only 45 and has hopes of working again someday!
I see a lot of questions/comments relating to antidepressants when I posted my initial ? I can't take ANY kind of antidepressant, it took us 7 years but finally I convinced everyone that I wasn't depressed, it was the drugs. Now that I am off everything that affects doppamine, seritonin?, and any other antidressint treatment available (ECT) I'm finally not depressed again. Never was before and now haven't been since(2yrs.) Is there soe correlation here? I'm 45 yrs old by the way and been diagnosed with both MS and C.I.P.D for approx. 10 years. Unable to work for last 7 due to fatigue, pain, vision , and cognative ability (combined theis makes me unreliable and that was causing so much stress it afected my MS (I'm a type a person , and a mild perfectionist that put's a high value on being consistant and reliable. I hope to be at least part of that person again because I'd really love to work again, even at a gas station or something, but have accepted that regular employment may never be an option and continue to work on hobbies to keep my mind busy. I know this info is kind of all over the board but I wanted you to kknow what kind of person I am so mabey that would trigger an Idea. Thank you again and God bless!! Geoff




