Getting (and staying pregnant) with high blood pressure

[Sagres]

My sister is pregnant with high BP, like you she had it before getting pregnant and has no real explanation for it. She was on medication (not sure which one) but had to change to a different med before TTC AND take the new one for 6 months before TTC. So if you are not on anything currently you have already cleared that hurdle.
My sister is now about 24 weeks so we don't know the outcome yet, but she was able to fall pregnant without too many hassles and her BP has been fine and even a little too low, I think they are considering changing her dosage because it is working too well.
I myself had high BP (due to PE) but only really late so about from 35 or 36 weeks. This didn't effect my baby at all but did give me some stuff to work around during the actual labour - because of course your body is working really hard during labour and BP tends to go up and I was already starting from a pretty high baseline. But as I said it was something we just had to work with and plan for, not something that drastically changed the outcome IYKWIM.

[BellyBelly]

Have you tried acupuncture? If you're in Melbourne, look up Chris Tang at Box Hill Complete Health. He's on our support panel here and works with lots of couples trying to conceive and pregnant.

[Tully J]

Thanks for the replies sagres and Kelly. It's nice to hear positive stories from others. I'm not in Melbourne Kelly, but will look into local accupuncturists.
Thanks again.

[~*Kat*~]

Tully I have genetic high BP and have has since I was 18 yrs old (and I am a big girl).
I have had to have medication for my blood pressure through all my pregnancies and even ended up with pre-eclampcia with my first but most of the time the medication they put u on/ change u too will be able to keep ur BP in a good range through ur pregnancy. Dont let u think it will hold u back just keep trying.
If I can get though being pregnant then anyone can