Stupid question for cardiac nurses

[sissiesmama, ASN, RN]

Hey, everyone. I hate to post this question, but I really need to see if any of you cardiac buffs may can help me with this.

I am am an RN with med surg certification. The last 4 or 5 years I have worked in the ER, so I feel like I should know something about this. I am 36 and approx. 2 years ago got started on BP meds. Most recently, it had been running 180 to 200 systolic, 110 to 120 diastolic.

About 2 weeks ago, I was having some n/v, h/a, and little runs where I couldn't catch my breath. I went to the ER at the hospital wher I worked until about September, when I quit to try to get my BP more under control. My husband is also a nurse and he supervises at this facility also. (He got mad because I left to go to the ER without waking him up, He had been up with me the last 48 hours at this time, and our two boys were at home in bed.

Anyway, I got to the ER about 1am or so and after triage, was walked straight back to one of the trauma rooms. I was surprised and expected a long wait aftr triage. I heard mu nurse call out before she entered my room that she needed some help in my room, and needed the ER doc(who is a friend of my husband) and stopped the ER tech to do a stat EKG on me while she was hooking me up to the monitor. My BP was 200/120 or so. What surprised me was that I was in bigeminy. They aked me about CP and SOB. I had noticed that I had some DOE and even at rest I got short at intervals.

My question, does stress have anything to do with that? I know I had to cut down on my caffeine intake, but wasn't sure what else I should know.

They put a HL in me and pushed Lopressor 3 times, and the ER nurse said they converted me with that. I got a script for that. Please if anyone has any additional information, send it my way, email or pm. I feel stupid not remembering this but I guess nursing school was so long ago! Thanks for any info you may be able to give me.!!

Anne, RNC

[sirI, MSN, APRN, NP]

Hello, busyrnandmom,

You need to pose these questions/concerns to your HCP. We at allnurses.com cannot offer medical advice as to your care. Please stay in close contact with your HCP and get healthy.