| Symptoms of high blood pressure may not be | | | | high blood pressure, most especially in people over fifty |
| noticeable even after it has caused extensive organ | | | | years old and is one of the main reasons why high |
| damage. Even very high blood pressures, fatal and | | | | blood pressure calls for appropriate treatment. Nose |
| already causing serious kidney damage, sometimes | | | | bleeding and subconjunctival hemorrhages occur more |
| continue for several months before any symptoms | | | | frequently in people with high blood pressure, although |
| may occur. The only way to know if you have high | | | | both symptoms are very common and need not |
| blood pressure is to have it measured with a | | | | cause alarm immediately. Subconjunctival hemorrhages |
| sphygmomanometer.Headaches and breathlessness | | | | sound very deadly, but "hemorrhage" is simply the |
| (dyspnea) on slight exertion occur more frequently in | | | | technical term for bleeding of any extent. |
| people who have sustained blood pressures of around | | | | Subconjunctival hemorrhages are simply a small |
| 180/120 mmHg or higher than in people with 'normal' | | | | amount of bleeding in the white are of the eye. They |
| blood pressure. Both of these symptoms are common | | | | can appear after coughing, sneezing or straining during |
| anyway, but they occur more often in people with high | | | | defecation and show up as a bright red area on the |
| blood pressure. Almost everyone gets headaches at | | | | white of the eye, which then disappears over several |
| some time or another - they can be due to anxiety, | | | | weeks or so. They are harmless and have nothing to |
| tension or minor infections. Such 'ordinary' headaches | | | | do with retinal hemorrhages.Palpitations, tension |
| are equally common in people with high blood pressure, | | | | headaches and hyperventilation are symptoms of |
| but a cautious physician will always check your blood | | | | anxiety and so are common in people who are |
| pressure first before dismissing associated headaches | | | | anxious or frightened. If they already have these |
| as insignificant, as they do occupationally signal sudden | | | | symptoms and are then unfortunately found to have |
| loss of control. Some of these headaches can be a | | | | high blood pressure, then the diagnosis may confirm |
| warning of early damage to the vascular system in | | | | their fears and reinforce the symptoms. Others may |
| the brain or the retina, which will require urgent blood | | | | get palpitations for the first time after they have been |
| pressure control to prevent fatal complications. | | | | told that they have high blood pressure. They are not |
| Breathlessness in people with high blood pressure is | | | | caused by high blood pressure itself, but by fear of it |
| usually a result of being obese. On the other hand, if | | | | and what the diagnosis means. The symptoms usually |
| blood pressure has risen out of control, or has | | | | disappear, although not always immediately, with |
| strangely fallen without any change in medication, then | | | | adequate explanation of what a diagnosis of high |
| breathlessness may be the symptom of early heart | | | | blood pressure really means.Symptoms of high blood |
| failure.The risk of bleeding from arteries into the brain | | | | pressure are usually varied. Before jumping into any |
| (thereby causing stroke) or into the retina (causing | | | | conclusion, consult your physician first to save you |
| visual loss if the bleeding is extensive) is magnified by | | | | from unnecessary worries of high blood pressure. |