What are the symptoms of high blood pressure?

There are often some signs and symptoms that tell us when there is a disease in the body. The same is true for high blood pressure. If it develops more and more seriously, the symptoms will become more and more obvious. Understanding the symptoms of high blood pressure will also help us to discover our own physical problems in time. So what are the symptoms of high blood pressure?

No symptoms or mild symptoms in the early stages

Many patients with hypertension have no symptoms at the beginning, or the symptoms are not obvious.

Blood pressure only rises after exertion, mental stress, or emotional fluctuations, and returns to normal after rest.

Dizziness

Dizziness is the most common symptom of hypertension. Some are transient, often occurring when squatting or standing up suddenly, and some are persistent.

Dizziness is the main pain of patients. They have a persistent dull and uncomfortable feeling in the head, which seriously interferes with thinking, affects work, and causes loss of interest in surrounding things.

When hypertensive crisis or vertebral-basilar artery insufficiency occurs, symptoms similar to inner ear vertigo may occur.

headache

Headaches are often persistent, blunt pain or throbbing, distending pain, or even explosive pain.

It usually occurs in the morning when waking up and gradually gets better after getting up and moving around or after meals.

The pain is mostly located at the temples on both sides of the forehead and the back of the head.

Irritability, palpitations, insomnia

Hypertensive patients tend to be irritable, sensitive, and easily agitated. Palpitations and insomnia are common.

Insomnia is often characterized by difficulty falling asleep or waking up early, unrefreshing sleep, nightmares, and easy awakening.

This is related to cerebral cortex dysfunction and autonomic nervous system dysfunction.

Poor concentration and memory loss

It is not obvious in the early stage, but gradually worsens as the disease progresses.

Because it is quite distressing, it is often one of the reasons that prompts patients to seek medical treatment. It is manifested as easy distraction and loss of recent memory. It is often difficult to remember recent events, but past events such as childhood events are still fresh in the memory.

Limb numbness

Common symptoms include numbness of the fingers and toes, a mosquito-like sensation on the skin, or tense and sore neck and back muscles. Some patients often feel that their fingers are not flexible.

Generally, the condition improves with appropriate treatment.

If the limb numbness is persistent, lasts for a long time, and is fixed to a certain limb, and is accompanied by limb weakness, cramps, and throbbing pain, you should go to the hospital immediately to prevent a stroke.

Bleeding

Less common.

Since high blood pressure can cause arteriosclerosis, which reduces the elasticity of blood vessels and increases their fragility, they are prone to rupture and bleeding.

Among them, nose bleeding is the most common, followed by conjunctival hemorrhage, fundus hemorrhage, cerebral hemorrhage, etc.

According to statistics, about 80% of patients with heavy nosebleeds suffer from hypertension.