your husband clearly has uncontrolled hypertension that needs hands-on medical intervention. blood pressure can be successfully treated but it may take a different medication. it is imperative that you consult an internist/cardiologist so that he can be properly managed. there are some identifiable causes for high blood pressures but most are considered "idiopathic" or essential hypertension. which means there is no specific one cause but rather a plethora of medical issues that may be contributory.
please help! sitting blood pressure 185/109 and standing bp is 117/93. my husband is on several bp meds incl. clonodine. his bp runs 210/115 to 175/100. he excercises regularly and his bp goes down for a while after. recently we noticed that his bp is lower when taken standing vs. sitting. it spikes during the night always. he had a 5 way bypass at 50 years old because his bp was never controlled. what can we do? please help! we need a dr. house to figure out what is wrong with him and why medication is not working. thank you.