From this article you will learn: what are the manifestations of increased pressure in women, and what symptoms occur more often with different degrees of hypertension.
In general, high blood pressure makes itself felt by the same symptoms in all people, regardless of sex age and other characteristics. But due to the fact that the nervous system of women is more susceptible to emotional influences, when pressure increases, 80% of them have more vivid signs than men.
Basically, they are associated with a violation of the normal operation of the brain and heart. How high pressure can manifest itself, can not be predicted, since everything depends on many factors( the level of pressure, how often there is hypertension, individual characteristics of the organism, etc.).It is very important to increase the pressure: if it is light - less than 20% of the usual human pressure or less than 160/100 mm Hg.article, the symptoms are weaker, if more of these criteria - the signs are pronounced.
Most often it can be:
- Headache. General weakness and dizziness.
- Trembling of the body.
- Nausea and vomiting.
- Redness of the face, hemorrhage.
- Strong heartbeat, arrhythmia.
- Chest pain and shortness of breath.
If there is one or more of these symptoms, even without measuring the pressure, one can already assume that it is increased. If tonometry confirms this assumption, you need to consult a cardiologist, therapist or family doctor.
1. Headache
Brain vessels in women are subject to constant changes in tone. It does not stay at a stable level, rising or falling, reacts to different impacts( loads, stress, weather changes).In response to high blood pressure there is a spasm-constriction. Therefore, headache is the most frequent symptom of arterial hypertension in women.
A slight increase in
In women with a slight increase in pressure, the headache is characterized as follows:
- compressive, pressing;
- is most pronounced in the temples;
- is enhanced by tilting and turning the head;
- interferes with the performance of familiar work, but rarely prevents it from performing at all.
Strong increase
When the pressure exceeds a critical value, the symptoms of a headache change so:
- it becomes very strong;
- there is a pronounced ripple in the temples;
- feeling of squeezing the entire head;
- heaviness in the eyes;
- pain enhancement with the slightest movements of the head, when looking at a bright light, listening to loud sounds;
- the general condition is broken.
Headache is the most frequent, but nonspecific( unreliable) sign of hypertension. It can be in women with normal pressure, as it can arise for other reasons.
2. General weakness and dizziness
Absolutely all cases of extreme pressure increase are accompanied by general weakness and dizziness of varying severity. The pattern is that the higher the score, the more pronounced the symptoms. Most of all, this is affected not so much by the value of the indicator, as by the degree of excess of the figures customary for a particular person.
This means that women with constant hypertension up to 150-160 / 90-100 mm Hg.can feel good with its increase to 180/120.Other women, whose working pressure is within normal figures( less than 140/90), already at its increase by 20 units, unpleasant complaints and symptoms are noted. One of the most frequent - general weakness, malaise, dizziness, impaired coordination of movements.
The worse the body is adapted to withstand high blood pressure and the higher the figure, the more pronounced such manifestations. This can only be a slight malaise, but it is also possible for a complete inability to be in an upright position( stand, walk) - with a hypertensive crisis up to 180-200 / 100-120 mm Hg. Art.about 90% of women are forced to take a horizontal position( lie down).
3. Tremor in the body - tremor
A common symptom of hypertension is the trembling of the hands, legs and body as a whole. Doctors call it a tremor. It resembles a shiver and an aching in the body during a chill, which happens at a high temperature. In 85% of women with hypertensive crisis with very high blood pressure, arms and legs begin to be cowardly. With moderate hypertension, a tremor can also appear if a woman does not take measures to lower her body for several hours. This will lead to a rapid depletion of energy in the muscles and will manifest as a simultaneous increase in weakness and tremor.
The extreme degree of involuntary muscle contractions and tremors is convulsions. Usually, when they occur, the woman loses consciousness, rolls her eyes, tightens her jaw, the muscles of the whole body become sharply tense, arms and legs are twitching synchronously.
Convulsive syndrome is a serious complication of hypertensive crisis, which indicates a high probability of a stroke.
4. Nausea and vomiting
Gastric disorders in the form of nausea and vomiting are symptoms not only of diseases of the digestive system. They are noted by women in case of high blood pressure:
- up to 160/100 - 25%;
- up to 180/120 - 65%;
- up to 200/120 and more - 85%.
These statistics indicate that nausea and vomiting are a clinical criterion by which a pronounced hypertensive crisis can be suspected without tonometry.
Features of nausea and vomiting are:
- Vomiting occurs suddenly without previous nausea.
- After vomiting, nausea remains.
- Periodic recurrence of emetic seizures.
- Another regurgitation does not bring relief.
- First, vomiting can be plentiful food eaten, and if the stomach is empty - mucus with impurities of bile.
Indomitable reusable vomiting speaks about serious disorders of cerebral circulation against the background of a strong increase in pressure. This is an alarming symptom, which should be the reason for emergency care. Otherwise, with the pressure during the next vomiting attack, the pressure will increase even more. This threatens hemorrhage in the brain( hemorrhagic stroke).
5. Face redness, hemorrhages
About 30% of women with periodic increases in blood pressure and 15% with frequent attacks of hypertension, note redness at the height of the crisis. The regularity is characteristic - the higher the indices, the more often this symptom arises. All this means that if a woman suddenly has reddened face, there is a high probability of increased blood pressure. But if the skin of a person is of a normal color, this does not mean that the pressure can not be high.
Another symptom that is associated with increased vascular blood filling at high arterial pressure is spontaneous rupture of the vascular wall. It can manifest as either a bleeding or a hemorrhage. As a rule, surface capillaries of the nasal cavity and eyes are ruptured. Therefore, 50% of women with a sudden jump in pressure to high figures( above 180/100) on the eye have hemorrhages( as if after a stroke), or for no reason starts bleeding from the nose. In 10% of these nosebleeds are so strong that even specialists can not stop them at the same time.
Do not be afraid of bleeding from the nose and hemorrhages in the eye, due to hypertensive crisis. They can be called a kind of protective maneuver of the body. It protects the vessels of the brain from rupture. After all, the consequences of such disorders of cerebral circulation are crippling and fatal - hematoma and stroke.
6. Strong heartbeat, arrhythmia
The main target organs that suffer from increased blood pressure are the brain and heart. Therefore, hypertension is often manifested by symptoms of their defeat. If in relation to the brain, it is a headache, dizziness and vomiting, then in relation to the heart:
- Strong heartbeat.
- Frequent pulse.
- Interruptions and irregular rhythm( arrhythmia).
About 70% of women under high blood pressure report signs of arrhythmia. More often complaints arise on the type of an attack and are described as sensation of own palpitation,( as if the heart jumps out of the chest).A healthy person should not feel how his heart is shortened, but with a hypertensive crisis this feeling is present.
If at this time to calculate the pulse, it turns out that it exceeds 90 beats per minute, it can be irregular or intermittent with different intervals between the next cuts( blows).In the presence of heart problems, severe interruptions are possible - atrial fibrillation, paroxysmal tachycardia, extrasystole, atrial fibrillation and ventricular fibrillation.
7. Chest pain and dyspnea
The heart muscle undergoes an increased load when the pressure rises, trying to overcome the increased resistance in the vessels. At this time, her need for oxygen and other nutrients increases, and blood supply decreases. If a woman has any problems with the patency of the coronary vessels( ischemic disease, angina, a transferred heart attack), then at the height of the hypertensive crisis she complains about:
- pain in the heart or behind the breastbone;
- discomfort in the left half of the thorax, neck or under the scapula;
- feeling of lack of air;
- is dyspnea( breathes often and superficially).
Hypertensive crises in 20% of women are complicated by angina, acute coronary syndrome or myocardial infarction. Therefore, even those who do not have any problems with the heart, but with increasing pressure begin to feel any pain in the heart, should be examined for ischemic disease.
As a result
Yes, hypertension has no specific clinical signs. But on the totality of the symptoms that accompany it most often, it is possible not only to assume that the pressure is increased, but also to orient to what figures, whether there are any threats to life and health, and also to determine the attendant health problems. Carefully evaluate the symptoms, because they are the only signal of the body about the danger!
