High Diastolic?? Help!

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I hope you all can give me a little info. I took my 40 y.o. husband in for a myelogram the other week and when they checked his BP before they released him, his diastolic was 110 (I don't remember the systolic). He shrugged it off saying he always got stressed at Drs offices. I'm just now starting my nursing journey (I'm in a CNA class) and we just learned how to take a manual BP, so I bought a manual cuff this last Friday night at the drugstore and have been trying to check him every night. His systolic has been running around 138, but his diastolic is still high like it was in the drs office. It's been consistently running around 100, give or take 2. The obvious path of action here would be to see a Dr. about it, but he absolutley won't take meds for this. I know this sounds sort of dumb, but if this is left untreated what will happen?? What could be causing this? What can I do? What s/s should I watch out for that could signal a crisis?

Thanks!

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Specializes in Education, FP, LNC, Forensics, ED, OB.

Hello, RedHeadRN2b,

I'm sorry, but these questions are way beyond what the members of allnurses.com can help you with.

These are questions that need to be posed to the healthcare provider. Please try and talk with your husband again and impress upon him the need to have this followed up.

Good luck.

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Specializes in Geriatrics/Oncology/Psych/College Health.

http://www.health24.com/medical/Condition_centres/777-792-815-1535.asp

Here is a general link re: hypertension (HTN.) Lots more readily available.

I've found that the best way to encourage a male to followup re: HTN is to read up on the impact it will have on his sexual function left untreated.

Otherwise, one can only educate and hope for a lightbulb to go off.

Good luck.

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