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[|Human|] I have had a pain in my upper abdomen when inhaling. When laying down it hurts to exhale. I recently took a blood pressure reading at 143/68 I am 20 years old. I feel the pain is a muscle I may have tweaked playing softball the past weekend but it doesn t help I had a high blood pressure. I am just worried is there a correlation with pulled muscles and high blood pressure?
[|AI|]  Hi. Thanks for your query. There may not be a relation between the pulled muscle and High Blood Pressure directly. Your anxiety / pain / fear can temporarily increase blood pressure. You are advised to take Blood Pressure on three different days, it may settle by this time. If the BP does not come down, get an opinion of a cardiologist and a treatment for the same. The pain in the abdomen may be really due to pulled muscles as you rightly suspected. A painkiller and a muscle relaxant along with strict best should help you completely recover unless there are associated problems like pleural infection and inflammatory process going on in the upper abdomen or a lower chest. Yet is always better to confirm or rule out -