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Can high blood pressure cause problems sleeping? About the same time it turned out that I had high blood pressure (taking medication), I started having trouble sleeping. I wake up a few times a night, I often go to the toilet (prostate ok - I examined it) and drink something because my mouth is dry. The worst thing is that when I wake up, I can't fall asleep, I feel such an internal tremor. I am 45 years old, I do not smoke, I do not drink (medications) now, work is stressful, I run every other day - about 10 km. I don't know if I snore, because I live alone.
Hypertension is a disease that often accompanies the obstructive apnea syndrome. Untreated apnea can worsen it and make it difficult to treat. The fact that at the time of diagnosis of hypertension you began to have problems with sleep, it may be a coincidence. The nocturnal symptoms that you describe may indicate the occurrence of breathing disorders during sleep, it would be worthwhile to diagnose, if only because untreated obstructive apnea may affect the treatment of hypertension, and on the other hand, treatment of apnea may have a positive effect on blood pressure.
Remember that our expert's answer is informative and will not replace a visit to the doctor.
Monika Paulina Kuźmińska, MD, PhDDr. Monika Paulina Kuźmińska, MD, internist, specialist in lung diseases, member of the European Respiratory Society and the Polish Sleep Research Society.
For several years he has been dealing with the issues of breathing disorders during sleep, with particular emphasis on obstructive apnea. He assesses polysomnographic tests in several centers diagnosing breathing disorders during sleep in Warsaw.
In 2013, she defended her doctoral dissertation on: Breathing disorders during sleep in adults, taking into account the impact of weight reduction on the indicators of polysomnography.
Diagnoses, consults and conservatively treats patients diagnosed with obstructive apnea syndrome at the Prof. In Orłowski, he cooperates with the Otorhinolaryngology Clinic of the Medical University of Warsaw at the Czerniakowski Hospital in Warsaw.
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