My husband is scheduled for surgery tomorrow and has just been warned his blood pressure is high and they may not do the surgery. He always gets high readings when he goes to the doctors surgery or hospital because he gets very stressed. He had a 12 hour monitor on last year and it was ok. Would he be able to take Kalms before the operation to try to calm his nerves and keep his bp down?
Thank you for your question. Your husband probably is having anxiety about the surgery. And since he had an ambulatory (or out of the doctor's office) BP reading taken in the past year, his raised BP may be attributed to anxiety rather than him developing hypertension. Hence, rather than taking such tablets with questionable scientific basis regarding their efficacy, it might be better to talk to your husbands surgeon and discuss taking an anxiolytic (like alprazolam) tablet for a couple of days before the next posted date for surgery. I am sure once his anxiety reduces, his BP will also reduce. I hope this helps.