You've been on antidepressants for years, and your blood pressure has crept up — read at a different clinic almost every time.
“Is there anything in my records that explains my rising blood pressure?”
Blood pressure can rise for many reasons — weight, salt, stress, sleep, family history, or certain medications. It's worth tracking and raising with your doctor, who can confirm the trend and decide whether anything needs to change.
Yes — it's worth looking at alongside one medication. Lining your blood-pressure readings up against your prescription history, the higher numbers — especially the diastolic (bottom) value — cluster around your bupropion (Wellbutrin) 300 mg periods:
no medication 2020 BP 121/73 Wellbutrin XL 150 mg 2021 BP 128/74 2024 BP 137/87 2025 BP 120/74 Wellbutrin XL 300 mg 2023 BP 126/84 day 4 on 300 mg 2023 BP 156/98 ER visit — chest pain 2026 BP 139/94 home; diastolic 93–97
On 150 mg your diastolic mostly sits in the 70s–80s; across the 300 mg stretches it runs in the 90s — including an ER visit at 156/98. Bupropion can raise blood pressure dose-dependently, so the timing fits. No single visit caught this, because the readings are scattered across different clinics, years apart. I can't say the dose is the cause — but it's a specific thing to raise with your prescriber. Want the full timeline on one page?
