So yesterday while at work, my vision suddenly darkened and was filled with floating black dots everywhere. It lasted for just a short time, but after that my vision was blurry and I was having trouble focusing my eyes. At the time I was just sitting there, so it wasn't like I just got up too fast or anything.
I called my OB's office, but they had already closed, so I called my insurance nurse line. The nurse there told me I should head to the ER.
So I went to the ER where they took my blood pressure and it was 129/ something, which I told them was super high for me, I'm usually around 100, but they said it was great for someone pregnant. They looked in my eyes with a light, and then told me it was probably just an aural migraine without any other migraine symptoms (no headache or anything else). I've never had a migraine before. After about 3 hours from when they initially took my blood pressure they took it again and it was down to 105/64. At which point they released me.
I'm 18 weeks pregnant, I can see that in December I had visited the doctor and my Blood pressure was 94/58 at that time, and at my previous OB appts I've been around 100/60. Should I be concerned in the blood pressure spike? The ER didn't care about the spike at all, and only said I had great blood pressure for a pregnant person even though I kept trying to explain that it seemed higher than normal to me.
I'm currently already on a regimen of baby aspirin due to IUGR with my first LO so it seems even stranger that I would have a spike. I'm not a worrier by nature, but this has me puzzled!
from what you are describing I wouldn't be overly concerned. There are a few things that can cause visual disturbance like that but the fact that your symptoms have now resolved eliminates most of them and the exam in the ER should have taken care of eliminating the few that would have remained.
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