High Blood Pressure Symptoms

High blood pressure symptoms are not very apparent and even if these symptoms does occur it usually is mild and nonspecific, vague or suggesting many different disorders.

Usually, high blood pressure isn’t felt which made it very dangerous and thus was labeled as the "silent killer". This disease can go unnoticed as it progress to develop to any one or more of the several potentially fatal complications of hypertension such as strokes or heart attacks.

Having one’s blood pressure checked on a regular basis is the only way  to find out if he or she has high blood pressure, this is even more important if you have a close relative who has high blood pressure as high blood pressure appears to run in the family.

Some people however, appear to experience symptoms such as dizziness, headache, shortness of breath, and blurred vision. These symptoms being present can be a good thing in that they impel a person to seek medical consultation and undergo treatment at once.

There are some high blood pressure symptoms though that may arise from the organ damage caused by chronic (ongoing, long-term) high blood pressure. Some of organ damage that are mostly seen associated with chronic high blood pressure: heart attack, heart failure, stroke or "mini stroke" (transient ischemic attack, TIA), Kidney failure, eye damage with loss of vision, peripheral arterial disease, outpouchings of the aorta, called aneurysms.

Knowing the danger of this disease, still, there are some people with high blood pressure that do not seek medical care until their high blood pressure is already severe in which is known as malignant hypertension. In malignant hypertension, the diastolic blood pressure (the lower number) is greater than 140 mm Hg; headache, light-headedness, or nausea may also be associated with it. Emergency hospitalization and urgent treatment to lower the blood pressure and to prevent brain hemorrhage or stroke is required in this degree of high blood pressure.

Realizing that high blood pressure can be unrecognized for years, causing no symptoms but causing progressive damage to the heart, other organs, and blood vessels is highly important.