 [ Symptoms ] is it ok to take plavix with zantac [ Disease ] i am glad to hear you are following up on this and have had a nuclear stress test it is great news that no heart trouble seems to have turned up on that so why has your resting blood pressure gone up well there are a number of possibilities note i am not suggesting any of these may apply to you i am just talking about various reasons a person is blood pressure can rise in general  for one thing as we age our blood pressure generally starts creeping up by the time a person reaches age 80 for example it is not uncommon for him or her to have a normal resting blood pressure of 14090 or even higher this usually is caused by a natural stiffening of the arteries as we age that stiffness raises the pressure inside the arteries which results in an elevated blood pressure another possible cause for elevated resting blood pressure is anxiety panic attacks can make blood pressure go up and even a high level of general anxiety can increase the resting pulse rate and blood pressure pain can cause an elevated pulse rate and increased blood pressure people in chronic pain often exhibit this combination of symptoms those are by no means the only things that could cause this particular combination of symptoms i only wanted to highlight some of the obvious ones i hope your healthcare provider is able to pinpoint the source of your elevated pressure and treat it wishing you well