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Low Blood Pressure and Slow Heartbeat

Dibbles1

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Thank you kindly in advance xxx smooches :cool:
 
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Well my heart rate is around the same as yours, although I get down to sub 50 occasionally. I can only wish for a BP at that level though. Nothing particularly wrong with it if it doesn't cause you any issues.
 
What he said. I also have a slow heartbeat, but tend to have high blood pressure (not atm). Takes all sorts.
 
Agree, a slow heartbeat is actually good.
Think of the heart as a pump, that's all it is, the slower and lower pressure it works at the better, it should last longer, and take you with it.
As long as you don't get dizzy when you stand up, or have no other problems don't worry, enjoy life
;)
 
Hi Dibbles, it can be a sign of low thyroid. What about body temp, is that low too?
 
Yes, see if you can find the ranges, particularly FT4 looks low.

But I find the FT3 test is the truest to how I feel. On NDT anyway.
 
In the old days, when fit and healthy in the army, both my BP and pulse rate were lower than yours. I wish mine was now as low as yours haha.
Drugs now keep both down to an acceptable (to the doctor( range.
 
Dibbles1 said:
I'm confused, I keep being told I have low BP and slow heart beat.
No one tells me whether this is a problem or dangerous or anything though.
BP can be 95/60 or 98/65 up to 115/76 etc that sort of silly range.
Which means nothing to me, I know nothing on the subject.
My heartbeat can be silly too, around 50 up to 60.
Can anyone enlighten me on this?
Thank you kindly in advance xxx smooches :cool:
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That's normal for me :)
lowest I have ever had was 60/40 and a paramedic said he had never seen anyone's BP that low when alive. He couldn't even understand how I could stand up let alone walk. I was known as the walking talking dead for quite a while after that :)
 
Dibbles1 said:
:hilarious::hilarious:
I know I frightened them to death once, after my accident in hospital.
I remember the male nurse Maurice getting about six different blood pressure machines to check me with. I have a sneaking suspicion it might have gone as low as yours or something, for him to have panicked so :D
Last night and this morning, my pulse was in the 40's, so I thought I should find out a bit more.
See if anyone else was like it ;)
Thanks to you all, I'm liking that I'm not the only one x
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Accidents can cause very low BP (shock) My very low BP was caused by an Addison's crises started by food poisoning. Wasn't nice.:(
 
Dibbles1 said:
:hilarious::hilarious:
I know I frightened them to death once, after my accident in hospital.
I remember the male nurse Maurice getting about six different blood pressure machines to check me with. I have a sneaking suspicion it might have gone as low as yours or something, for him to have panicked so :D
Last night and this morning, my pulse was in the 40's, so I thought I should find out a bit more.
See if anyone else was like it ;)
Thanks to you all, I'm liking that I'm not the only one x
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my routine resting BP is about 45-48, BP 110/80. I've measured RHR as low as 38 in the past. Apparently Miguel Indurain's was routinely 35 or lower when competing.

If you're physically fit and healthy, those numbers shoudl not be a problem. My BP is also on the lower end and the one thing I occaisionally have to worry about is postural hypotension where the body does not increase BP quickly enough when you stand up and your head goes all wobbly.

I've had one faint caused by it, and the paramedics went to town with the full ECG etc and the junior one was trained on typical heart rythms of a habitual endurance athlete (produces some characteristic changes in the trace apparently):nurse:
 
I used to have a resting pulse of around 48 or so but was too exhausted to walk further than a few hundred metres and was 25 kilograms over weight but that was very normal indeed according to my GP. I still have lowish pulse and BP but slightly more normal and normal weight since on thyroid meds.
 
My mother has always had bp that low (and borderline hypothyroidism).
She's never been particularly fit, but has been very healthy for almost all of her 80 yrs.
 
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