High blood pressure is a silent killer disease. Most people who have high blood pressure do not know that he has it. Of the fifty million Americans with high blood pressure, only about thirty million who have been diagnosed with high blood pressure. The rest probably will never know until they go to the doctor for other matters such as insurance, stroke, heart attack, kidney failure, and others that are not caused by high blood pressure.
If your diastolic blood pressure went from 70 one day to 105 the next, you’d immediately get symptoms. But blood pressure usually creeps up slowly, often over many years, and your body adjusts to the gradual change. You feel “normal” until that day your doctor or the nurse says, “Your blood pressure’s too high!” However, you may experience the following symptoms, which can be early warning signs of high blood pressure :
- Headaches, especially in the morning
- Ringing in the ears
- Unexplained dizziness
- Depression without apparent cause
- Blurred vision
- Tension when there is no cause
- Flushing of the face
- Fainting spells
