Hi Pat, There do seem to be a few with raised BP, some have been really high.
Last check mine was up, but not dangerously, must get it checked again.
It seems to me it’s the girls who seem to suffer this more or are the boys just being quiet?
Maybe it’s something to do with lower body weight ?
Hoping yours stays steady for you

Hi Pat,

With suitable medication mine is usually maintained at about 110-120 over 70 something…..depending. Two weeks after I started Tx it had jumped to 150/90 which we monitored. It dropped back slowly over the next few weeks and by about 8 or 9 weeks was back to pretreatment levels. I don’t know whether it was a side effect of the meds or just my emotional/physical response to everything that was happening to me (even the act of measuring your blood pressure can make it change if you are worried about the result ).

Also, most people need a type and dose size of hypertension meds that is somewhat tailored to them along with time to adjust to the specific dose. That medication will most likely be metabolised at least partly by their liver, so it is possible that the suddenly more efficient liver is then metabolising the BP meds much quicker than it did before. So maybe a need for a higher dose, a different med or a period of adjustment? All speculation of course.

Anyone with diagnosed hypertension should be monitoring regularly anyway but particularly on treatment and for others it doesn’t hurt to get your Dr to check you while attending monitoring visits. Without wanting to sound flippant, the worse thing for high BP is worrying about it so get diagnosed and treated if necessary.

Thanks for starting this important thread Pat1.
I have had hypertension since peg/inf, but it was controlled at 120/80 with Atacand.
The atacand is yellow flagged for sof/led, and a month prior to starting the DAAs my GP changed me to Coversyl 5, as I requested that I only be on all green flag medicines.
I didn’t want any mucking around on DAAs with any even slight contra-indications or timing issues.
Around week 4 or so my BP shot up to a high of 220/120, and 180/130 varying during the consult. I was at my regular GP check up. I had as you may know had migraine as a sx during the first month of the DAA and that was about all, but the migraine was severe. I had noticed a night nausea increasing and an increase in the migraine three or four days prior to my consult which revealed the elevated BP.
That was when I took a little rest from this forum but didn’t blog my issue, I wanted to get good medical advice, up the meds as per my doctors prescription and be fresh to go again here.
I am now fine and taking a diuretic BP med with an increase dose.
I hope that people report their post tx experiences with this sx resolution.
I watch my heart rate too, as I love sport. I climbed 400 steps as part of a walk I did yesterday at our coast here, and was careful not to overdo the climb. I still think my surfing is my best therapy sport wise, so long as I do not go too crazy after big waves and overdo the adrenaline while on tx. Walking is excellent.
Good to know I wasn’t the only one who had this experience. I was pretty surprised at such high readings given my non drinking non smoking and healthy lifestyle factors.
My Gp referred to specialist type information in order to get the best fit meds as I am his first DAA patient.
All going well now.

Hi , Thanks also pat for starting this important thread, sorry haven’t replied earlier.
Have had bp issues like Ariel, which got a lot worse when I changed bp meds when already into tx. It spiked all over the place and finally ended up rising uncontrollably one evening to around 221 over 128. In fact I think the last reading may have been higher than this but can’t find the bit of paper I wrote it down on.
Luckily I had some of my old bp meds in the house and dr Debasis (wonderful man) guided me to taking them to bring it down. It had to be done carefully as I had two bp meds in my system at that point and he didn’t want it dropping too much the other way. I was remaining calm, resting, stroking my dog etc but it just kept going up! Finally reached a tipping point and came down.
I went back on my old meds at an increased dose, my dr agreed to this and the hospital concurred even though they had originally reduced the dose due to contraindication. I take it two hours after my hep meds and try to not let it get to after 11am on dr Debasis s advice. I have had a good response so far to the hep meds and hope this continues!
I still have slightly high bp but fairly stable and as I only have one bottle of hep meds to go, hope it will settle back down after EOT.
I’m pretty sure it’s not a good idea to change bp meds whilst on tx., possibly o.k to add to them, maybe dr F can clarify?
I just worry other people might end up in a similar situation as me and Ariel. Some bp meds take weeks to kick in fully, my new one definitely “didn’t agree.”
Just wanted to post my experience for the record, feedback etc.
Cheers Deb x

Yes, I think my machines instructions said wait 3 mins between readings. But I don’t check as much now. Also there is a memory function on my machine but I didn’t use it, found it easier to write it down and compare.
I know what you mean Ken, can’t wait either! Congrats for tomorrow’s EOT!
Deb

That’s a shame I had an interesting short video describing BP – it explains things in nice simple terms. But link isn’t working???
It certainly is scary to see how high some of you have been because my local GP won’t monitor me I have no idea what my BP has been during Tx.
I’m really wishing you all well and hope your Dr’s can keep it under control because just knowing it’s too high is added stress,
thinking of you guys

This: https://www.youtube.com/embed/Ab9OZsDECZw does not work

This: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ab9OZsDECZw does work. Go figure....

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I had mine tested here at work a couple of weeks ago and it was 180/103!! I have one of those digital BP machines at home and it reads around 163/100 most of the time on my right arm and around 143/90 on my left arm, all over the place. I have never suffered with high blood pressure but it was actually how the Hep C was picked up. Very high at my annual health assessment at work last year so Doc followed on with blood tests etc. and here I am. Anyway my GP is not a great believer in the digital BP machines. It always reads high on his but when he takes it the old fashioned way it is always lower.

It is something that I will need to address though and will be seeing my GP next week about it. I have no symptoms i.e. headaches etc. and feel well since finishing treatment.

I have stopped using the BP monitor because it stresses me out