Hi,
@rosie26, sorry for the delay in my response; my tech skills leave everything to be desired! Boy, that is scary, I'm sorry you went through that.
I had strange pulsing sensation in my legs for weeks, had a very strange incident where I could hear my heart beating, extant, as they say. Then one day I lost my vision, twice for a total of five minutes and about an hour and a half later after my husband took me over to our moldy house for a brief visit, my heart was pounding, 165/69 I called an ambulance - so didn't want to lose my vision. ER tested for stroke a heart attack, I was crazy dizzy, chest pain and pressure. Sent me home with stroke info, two days later, crashed again, called ambulance, BP 196/110, lost hearing while talking to 911 operator. EMTs talked me out of going back to ER on grounds they wouldn't treat BP, ironically my husband was at urgent care with son, he came home and took me to urgent care. They put me on Metoprolol, which I don't like, but here's the catch - I can't get primary care to save my life, so to speak. Small town, no docs, certainly no docs that can help me. So stuck with till early May when I see new PCP.
BTW my husband gets those rashes and reacts very badly to alcohol. Talk about a red face!
What were your hypertensive symptoms? So glad you made it through .