question: In the past 6 weeks I have been hospitalized for sudden spikes in my blood pressure. I get terrible headaches with them and so far my doctors are not able to tell me why this is happening. The last time it happened was last week and it spiked the highest ever, 198/108. After this last time it took about a day for it to come back to within a normal range. My doctors are stumped and so am I because this doesn t happen on an everyday basis and nothing seems to be in common with them other than the headache.