Bp and Cd

I have been one BP meds for 12 years. A three month stint on entocort and prednisone sent my BP skyrocketing even worse and my meds had to be bumped up. Never was able to reduce the dosages - seems the steroids permanently messed up my BP.

High blood pressure runs in my family. My paternal grandfather died in 1959 from a stroke. My dad has been on bp meds since he was 43. I started BP meds when I was 43, as did one of my brothers. THe second one is borderline as is my sister.

Crohn's on the other hand - no one has that but me.

Yep high blood pressure for me too. I have been on meds for about 10 years now. In fact, they recently added another med to my list. I like IDES have had to stay on the higher dose because of Pred too.

Most of the time my bp is too low, unless I am in severe pain. Then it is through the roof

Your kidneys play a huge part in regulating your BP and prednisone is notorious for affecting your kidneys, which may have something to do with it. I had high blood pressure while on Prednisone also, for the first time in my life, and never thought about the medication being the culprit. It's still bouncing up and down on me too and it's been 2 months now since I've been off the roids. Hmm, one more reason to hate that drug.

my blood pressure is always normar unless I am in pain

Mine has been higher since pred, but I also gained 30 lbs. Mine has been around 150/90 on pred and entocort, and went down to 130's off pred and only lost 5 lbs. My heart rate was also higher, in the 100 range on pred, went to 60's off. My doc has held off on bp meds, just monitoring it, because she knows that steroids are causing it.

I am on one bp med. I used to be on 2 at larger doses, searching for a third with no luck. Once I had food sensitivity testing done and eliminated gluten, casein, corn syrup, and egg protein from my diet my bp normalized. I take 80 mg diovan now because of diabetes and "just in case". I stll get a little high with stress. They are recommending either an ACE Inhibitor (zestril) or an ARB (diovan) for all diabetics, regardless of whether or not they have hypertension. Supposed to be good for kidneys.

I've just been put on a bp meds. My pressure was running at 169/103 and the like. I don't take prednisone, but there are so many things I can't eat with my CD that I end up eating things that will contribute to higher cholesterol etc. All the good bp reducing things like veggies, fruit, oats, aggravate my CD so I end up eating a lot of pasta and breads, mashed potatoes etc.
I have to use a scooter now ( due to MS) and so have gained a lot of weight in the last 4 years. I used to walk 3 mile everyday. Needless to say , without the walking, I've become a fatty....with high blood cholesterol and high blood pressure. Things just seem to go from bad to worst.
Mary