DTZNuff
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Can daily use of an antihistamine like Benedryl or Phenergan raise your blood
pressure?
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kalina919
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Benedryl can raise blood pressure, but Phenergan is an anti-emetic, not an antihistamine. As far as I know, Phenergan does not cause BP to rise.
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How high is considered high, as far as blood pressure? I was in to PM doc's a few weeks ago and my BP was 172/117. The nurse kind of got a little nervous and was asking if I was on BP medication. I'm not, but wondering if I should be. I can always tell when my BP is getting high. My head throbs on the left side and I can feel my pulse all over my body, especially in my throat. Funny thing is, I'm only 28. My Mom said when I was a teenager, I always had low BP. Then I started having kids and got pregnancy induced hypertension, but after I delivered, my BP would go down. But in the past year or so I guess it has been creeping up. Wonder if it was higher because I was at the doctors. Does that happen to anyone else, the "white-coat syndrome," I think I've heard it called.
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bhamdave
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Phenergan: Promethazine hydrochloride, a phenothiazine derivative, possesses antihistaminic, sedative, antimotion-sickness, antiemetic, and anticholinergic effects.
Side Effects: Tachycardia, bradycardia, faintness, dizziness, and increases and decreases in blood pressure .
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brenda1231
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.... I can always tell when my BP is getting high. My head throbs on the left side and I can feel my pulse all over my body, especially in my throat. Funny thing is, I'm only 28. My Mom said when I was a teenager, I always had low BP. Then I started having kids and got pregnancy induced hypertension, but after I delivered, my BP would go down. But in the past year or so I guess it has been creeping up. Wonder if it was higher because I was at the doctors. Does that happen to anyone else, the "white-coat syndrome," I think I've heard it called.
I can also tell when BP goes up. I get flushed and my face feels hot. Athlough I do not as a regularity have high BP and when I was Pregnant with my last had very low blood pressure.
I did have the pregnancy induced high BP with my first, as well as toxemia.
I was wondering myself what the implications of taking clonidine with hydrocodone might be. I had been told by a nurse that hydro can lower BP, since I presume clonidine (being a BP med) does as well, could it be dangerous to take the two together??
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