SSRIs + Stims = higher blood pressure & lower heart rate?

[goku4ever]

Ive noticed that taking a stim, say methylone, before I was on my medication (Cipralex) would dramatically increase my heart rate from about 70 to 120-130. But since being on my medication, my heart rate hardly changes at all, but my blood pressure will increase a lot (dunno if more than before because its only recently Ive started measuring blood pressure).
Has anyone else noticed this? I did a quick google search but didn't find much.

 

[effie]

Heart rate and blood pressure can fluctuate a lot over the course of a day. Obviously stims can increase both, but SSRIs are not known for effecting blood pressure generally (one or two are - venlafaxine, a SNRI, for example, and people can have unusual reactions but it's not a known side effect for Cipralex) so I am really not too sure why this is happening!

Home blood-pressure monitors are notoriously inaccurate unless you have them calibrated regularly and always use them correctly (at the level of the heart, sitting down completely relaxed, not having smoked a cigarette or exerted yourself in the last half an hour etc) so I would take readings from that with a pinch of salt - if you are concerned with the readings you are getting I would see your doctor about it

 

[Psychedelic Jay]

Stims cause vasoconstriction... This will cause a rise in blood pressure.