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What causes high blood pressure and low body temperature?
For awhile now I've been sick because I have high blood pressure that I can actually feel. Without beta blockers, my BP was between 150/90 and 160/100 normally. I can feel when my blood pressure is spiking because my heart tends to work harder when it happens. This is accompanied by fatigue and weakness as well.
On top of that, my core body temperature has dropped ever since I became sick. Normally my temperature was 98.5F but now recently its been around 97F...sometimes it gets as low as 96.5F.
What could be causing these problems?
3 Answers
- 5 years ago
I'm new to high blood pressure. I'm 16 and have had it for less than a year. I've had migraines since I was about 10 (always left side temple or behind left eye) and will wake up with them multiple times a week. I've cut my sodium intake in half and drink a LOT of water daily, especially in the evenings. This has brought my blood pressure down from 150+/90+ to 130/80 on average. the headaches still come though. Being a 16 year old male I have no idea what effects the patch could be having on this, but the headaches and temperature differential have also effected me. I am very active and after exercising and cooling down my body temperature will drop rapidly while my head temperature feels to rise. I've had dozens of tests done (kidneys, eyes, heart,etc...) and none of them explain anything so my doctor told me to monitor what I do the days/ nights before I wake with the headache. I found that these nights I went to bed on an empty stomach, stressed, or very soon after exercise. As for the body temp (also helps the headaches) I was told to make sure my room temperature is not above 20 degrees or below 17 degrees when I go to bed because apparently it can cause your body to adjust to that temperature overnight so when you wake up and leave your room into a different climate your body reacts by fluctuating its temperature. So all in all my cause is high blood pressure (although yours seems okay excluding the 142/115 (the 115 being quite high)). This may be your case too, but the doctor sounds like a surefire method to answers.
