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BP Down

Mud Island Dweller

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Just been for my cardiac exercise test, passed with flying colours. At the start the nurse seemed a bit surprised she said gosh you are relaxed l guess this doesn't worry you.
To be honest no l was sure it was stress and out of control undiscovered type 2. now l have lot less stress and diet and exercise are going my way nothing to worry about
On the even better side my BP has gone down from 186/35 to 180/30

EDIT l should have put 130/80 down from 136/85 (sorry!)
 
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well done MID they are weird bp numbers though
 
weird? well that fits l am weird but how do you define weird? Umm thats Blood Pressure down were you thinking Blood Glucose?
 
no my bp for example is 106/65, the 180 is high but the 30 is basically weirdly low, but hey I'm no doctor i think normal is like 130/75 or something like that


my daughter is currently being investigated because of her low bp and its 80/44 at times but still not 30
 
I have to agree with Andy, I find the figures a bit odd. Not wanting to scare you
Are you sure it was 180/30?

Cara
 
The info below is taken from the main page here ...
  • The NICE target blood pressure level for people with diabetes is to achieve below130/80mmHg.
  • The NHS regard an ideal blood pressure reading as being below 120/80mmHg.
I do want to drop lower but am just chuffed l am down from what l was
 
ahh sorry l see back to front l took ages to see putting it down to numbers and l hate numbers ))))
 
I wonder if they have made a mistake MID, the Diastolic figure seems quite low and at the very least you'd feel light headed, on the other-hand the Systolic figure is the other way round and a bit too high......sorry!!!!!
 
Nobelhead l messed up l reversed the figures when l wrote them. l should have put 130/80 down from 136/85 and when queztioned couldnt see the wood for the trees!
 
Mud Island Dweller said:
Nobelhead l messed up l reversed the figures when l wrote them. l should have put 130/80 down from 136/85 and when queztioned couldnt see the wood for the trees!
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That's much better, try and get the diastolic figure down just that little bit and your almost there.
 
Well done it is so good to hear of people doing so well as it gives others encouragment to
 
That's a good drop MID,

I'm curious - what's considered hypotension i.e. too low?

My last test was 116/65

The second one is lower than I've seen for a while and that was after cycling to the hospital
 
Normal blood pressure is between 90/60 and 140/90. That is from NHS site. Anything below or above is hypo/hypertension.
 
Ohhh Just been to see the PT to drop something off and asked him to give me a fat measure... that's down from 21% on 14 January to 19% today
 
Just had an interesting BP experience this morning.

Got up to do my morning BG test and basal dose, had a pee, felt fuzzy headed. BG test came back at 6.1, still fuzzy headed. Went back in the bedroom to sit down again and promptly fell over.

Sweating, fuzzy headed, HR elevated - cue a call to the DSN out of hours service, retest again, BG at 5.8, definitely not a hypo, doesn't sound diabetes related.

Meanwhile the blue light brigade have turned up, pulse now down to a sedate 60, ECG trace OK (apart from changes related to my exercise load), BP 100/60 so on the low side.

Basically put it down to postural hypotension, low BP ovenight while sleeping, jumped out of bed this morning and BP did not catch up in time, so I essentially fainted. First time it's been that extreme.
 
Ouch glad it didn't require more, l guess it is Dr time to get an MOT or just putting it down to a one off?

You are not allowed to be ill Andy, Nutty and l need your running input
 
Complete one-off, feel absolutely fine now and no other illnesses around. Did three hours on teh bike yesterday.

Last time I had this happen was when I had a bout of food poisoning about twelve years ago.
 
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