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Interview 15  

Interview 15

Age at Interview: 61
Sex: Male
Age at Diagnosis: 51
Background:

Brief outline:Discovered after taking blood pressure at an exhibition.


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Considers whether his headaches are a symptom of hypertension.

 



It's very difficult from time to time, if one's got hypertension, not to relate symptoms to it. Every time that I get a headache - although I have read some literature which suggests that headaches and hypertension are not necessarily associated - every time I do get a headache, and I am quite a headachy kind of person in the first place, I tend to think 'oh it's my blood pressure'.

I do think there are different types of headache and I think I have now begun to recognise if I haven't taken my tablets for a bit if I sometimes do get a headache that I will think 'Ah that is a hypertension headache'. 

That's because I haven't taken my tablets but I don't check my blood pressure and associate directly with the headache. I have always suffered with migraine and cyclical headaches. The cyclical headaches have tended to go away, but now I do think I get probably something to do with the hypertension, because certainly when I am taking my tablets I get less headaches.
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