My High Blood Pressure
My High Blood Pressure by: Steve Alan I have probably had high blood pressure for a long time. This is the story of how I found out. In hindsight, I can identify many symptoms of high blood pressure, but I either ignored them or thought they were related to other things. The major symptom I had was headaches. Most days I would either wake up with a headache or develop one. Some of them were real "head splitters" ... occasionally I would have to lie down to stop the nausea. I remember often working in front of my computer and trying very hard not to move my head to avoid feeling sharp pains. Since being diagnosed with high blood pressure and starting medication, I have not had one headache (around nine months now). My headaches were definitely due to my high blood pressure, but back then I thought they were due to stress, or poor posture due to sitting at a computer all day ... or any number of things. THE DIAGNOSIS I had been told for years by doctors that my blood pressur...