Post your latest blood pressure reading

[Squatch]

mine was 126 over 100. Eeek. Need to bring it down a notch. Any ideas?

[KitchenWitch]

1. reduce salt intake

increase water intake, exercise

Mine is just the opposite: My last reading was 98/64

[LaraMN]

2. I'm similar to KW.

90-something over 62.

and my LDL cholesterol was 71.

and that's all I remember.

[KitchenWitch]

4. Do you ever get lightheaded when you stand up?

[LaraMN]

5. Ohhh yes, and I had fainting issues when I was pregnant.

I couldn't stand in one place very long at all.

[KitchenWitch]

6. Me too!

:hug:

[LaraMN]

7. Are you also always cold?

I'm constantly freezing if I don't keep moving around.

[KitchenWitch]

8. No, but I am peri-menopausal - Walking Hot Flash.

[billyskank]

3. Last time I took my own blood pressure

the machine claimed I was dead. I had no pulse.

[MissMillie]

9. 126/78

I used to be on meds, but now that I've dropped so much weight, and exercise regularly, I'm med free, and getting good reports.

[eyesroll]

10. Recently, I'm sure it has sucked.

(A month-long bout of cold/flu/anxiety will do that.)

Normally, I'm in the 115/70 range.

[kwassa]

11. 120/80 in my physical last week

[texas1928]

12. 1000 over 500

I AM PISSED!!!!!!!!

[kick-ass-bob]

13. 124/75.

:thumbsup:

[Heidi]

14. 114 over 70. (nt)

[kick-ass-bob]

15. *stalk* *stalk*

:bounce::bounce:




(I had to 2x check to make sure you were the right one! :rofl: )

[Heidi]

17. Smarty-pants.

I'm the one with the good blood pressure. :evilgrin:

[ProfessorGAC]

16. Funny You Asked That!

Last Thursday, it was 175 over 115. That's one reason they kept me in the hospital. Same all day Friday. By Sat. morning, it was done to 128 over 78. Stayed there until Monday morning and was 170something over 110 again. But, by that afternoon was 130 over 84.

Now, i have to check it every day. It was 128/82 this morning.
The Professor

[tatertop]

33. That's quite a range

[entanglement]

18. 130/100, but if it'll be quite different after a couple of minutes in GD

:evilgrin:

[ps1074]

19. 140 / 80

eom

[sbj405]

20. 100/64

[Left Is Write]

21. I checked my blood pressure and resting heart rate recently...

112/60 for the blood pressure and 65 for the heart rate.

[u4ic]

22. Before or after GD?

:7

[CountAllVotes]

23. Mine is ok as long as I stay the hell away from the doctor's office

and the minute I get there it soars to 150/90 or something because they STRESS me out beyond all belief.

It is fine while I am at home. You might invest in a wrist type of blood pressure monitor and keep track of the readings (write them down) and see if you really are hypertensive or is it "White Coat Syndrome" (a bona fide recognized condition that causes a person's BP to go up when they go into see the doctor).

I suspect the other tips here are all good to lower blood pressure but I'd suggest monitoring it twice a day and keep a record for over a month before you decide to take the BP meds which can be highly toxic for some people.

:kick:

[trackfan]

24. 142/92

[malta blue]

25. 110/75 yesterday eom

[grimble_grumble]

26. 118/76

or something really close to that.

[Burma Jones]

27. 125 over 72

But I have apnea and am 60 pounds overweight......

[Cathyclysmic]

28. 125/72

That was from a urgent care visit last weekend.

[distantearlywarning]

29. 112/72

Pretty good, huh? That was right after lunch and walking a mile to the Doctor's office. And despite being 30 lbs overweight and a total salt addict (and the dr. was a gyno, so I was stressed out too!).

I just have naturally low blood pressure - if I go to the doctor early in the morning before eating, I will sometimes get readings of 90/60 and below (scary, huh?). But to tell you the truth, I wish it would get a little higher. It's actually a bit of a problem sometimes if I don't eat enough or wait too long before meals. My sugar plummets and my BP goes with it, and I've fainted on several occasions when I stood up too suddenly. I get dizzy a lot too unless I eat 6 times a day. I keep complaining to the Dr. about it, but they won't take me seriously (prob. because I am overweight and they think it's just peachy that my BP is low). I think I'd rather be a little high and not dizzy when I'm hungry.

[noonwitch]

30. 120 over 80

Normal for a 41 year old woman. Low for a 41 year old woman who smokes.

[reyd reid reed]

31. 110/60

[BurgherHoldtheLies]

32. 98/54...Even at 9 months pregnant I never top 100/60

But I did have sciatica (back pain) during all my pregnancies.:(

[reyd reid reed]

34. My blood pressure always dropped when I was pregnant

I only had back pain with one of them, though.

That was enough.

[BurgherHoldtheLies]

35. Welcome to DU

:hi:

[gizmo1979]

36. Drug reduced 135 over 86

But I swear to god I feel better when it's high,I feel like crap when it's lower.I asked the MD if some people maybe are made to have higher BP he just laughed.

[pitohui]

37. is that bad?

100/70 and the doctor was impressed but maybe i'm quite a bit older than you

a friend's blood pressure dropped from borderline "needs medication" to normal in a few weeks by cutting out alcohol