Symptoms of the High Blood Pressure

High blood pressure is called the silent killer because many people with the problem never know they have it. Of the fifty million Americans with high blood pressure, only about thirty million have been diagnosed. The rest may never know until they go to a doctor for another reason - a physical for insurance purposes, a stroke, heart attack, kidney failure, or some other problem either caused by or having nothing to do with high blood pressure - and have their blood pressure taken in a workup.

If you diastolic blood pressure went from 70 one day to 105 the next, you would 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
• Spontaneous nosebleeds
• Depression without apparent cause
• Blurred vision
• Tension when there is no cause
• Flushing of the face
• Fainting spells