Hypertensive Emergency
"I have night time spikes in my blood pressure and I also have Polycystic Kidney Disease which affects my blood pressure a lot because sometimes its too low, sometimes too high! I take lisinopril 40mg Norvasc 10mg and Cadurra 8mg for blood pressure maintaining but I have a script for clonidine 0.2mg twice a day as needed and what usually happens is I take first full dose at night when my blood pressure begins to rise then I wait an hour and check blood pressure and take .1 mg of clonidine and do same thing in another hour and what I&#039;ve learned is that for me clonidine effects my heart rate within 30 minutes which is not good because I don&#039;t really have a high heart rate and clonidine has made me drop into the 40s a few times while trying to lower blood pressure."