I went to the Doctor’s about 2 weeks ago and was diagnosed with a nasty staph infection on my arm.
My Blood Pressure was 150/ can’t remember!
Anyway he immediately wanted to put me on Blood Pressure Medicine. I told him I have no history of high Blood pressure, and after all I had a nasty infection for at least 2 weeks before I saw him. I didn’t take the medicine.
I’m done with my strong Antibiotics and WITH NO Blood Pressure medicine my Pressure I take at home is the following.
Last "4" taken
97/35-Pulse 86
106/53-Pulse 87
109/59 Pulse 71
99/61 Pulse 69
Are they in a normal range? Sometimes I feel like someone just gave me a "valium’-very very tired.
I’m a 56 year old Caucasian woman who smokes also.
Freckles:
Thanks for answering, but I don’t think you understood what I wrote.
My readings I posted are far from being considered "high."
I "only" had high BP when I was at the Doctors for a nasty staph infection.
John:
I never even started to take the medicine, these readings are medicine free.
They are very weird readings and would indicate very low (worryingly low) blood pressure which would be making you very sleepy. Contact your doctor as a matter of urgency or phone a drop-in centre or similar place for advice. Ask if you may stop taking the medication without danger before risking it.
Home machines are often quite unreliable unless used in the correct way. I can’t believe the reading with 35 at all.
NB: A 20 year old might have 120/80 as normal blood pressure
A 50 year old might have it raised to 130/85
but at your age once the larger figure goes to 150 or more on a regular basis they will say you ought to try to lower the pressure .
A friend of mine got dangerously low BP from one of the drugs and an elderly reative had it go too low (drug was co-tenidone). They were both incredibly sleepy.
They started me on Ramipril and it made me feel vague and not really alert all the time. Then they put me on Candsesartan which has turned out to be OK.
Add: From the info in your update about not taking any meds yet, it would appear that you do not need to take medicine to lower your blood pressure.
If the readings are generally correct then for some reason your BP is often too low and making you sleepy. I’ve included a link from the NHS for your information.
Good luck in getting your doctor to understand that you need to be helped to return to normal levels. What they need to do first is to give you a monitor that you can wear which will take a series of readings (our NHS doctors often lend them out.)
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Stop smoking and start drinking
It wont make you feel any better but in the morning you’ll have forgotten all about it
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Normal BP is 120/80, pulse 60-80, so you’re slightly off. Smoking is likely contributing to the high BP. You arent so far off that changes to lfiestyle wouldn’t help.
I understand what you wrote and whatever home measure you’re using is off. It is very unlikely you have readings that low for your BP with a near racing pulse. 97/35 would have resulted in any physician putting you on wide open oxygen. It sounds like you may have had some white coat syndrome going on, some elevated hypertension with the infection. You very well may not need antihypertensives, but you will need to follow up with your doctor. Your pulse ox/sats and everything would be way off if you had these readings simultaneously. That said, hypotension could result in the symptoms you describe (lethargy, malaise, etc.) I would suggest you ask your doc for do-overs, something doesn’t add up here.
I do think it was a bit presumptuous of your doc to suggest meds after one reading.
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They are very weird readings and would indicate very low (worryingly low) blood pressure which would be making you very sleepy. Contact your doctor as a matter of urgency or phone a drop-in centre or similar place for advice. Ask if you may stop taking the medication without danger before risking it.
Home machines are often quite unreliable unless used in the correct way. I can’t believe the reading with 35 at all.
NB: A 20 year old might have 120/80 as normal blood pressure
A 50 year old might have it raised to 130/85
but at your age once the larger figure goes to 150 or more on a regular basis they will say you ought to try to lower the pressure .
A friend of mine got dangerously low BP from one of the drugs and an elderly reative had it go too low (drug was co-tenidone). They were both incredibly sleepy.
They started me on Ramipril and it made me feel vague and not really alert all the time. Then they put me on Candsesartan which has turned out to be OK.
Add: From the info in your update about not taking any meds yet, it would appear that you do not need to take medicine to lower your blood pressure.
If the readings are generally correct then for some reason your BP is often too low and making you sleepy. I’ve included a link from the NHS for your information.
Good luck in getting your doctor to understand that you need to be helped to return to normal levels. What they need to do first is to give you a monitor that you can wear which will take a series of readings (our NHS doctors often lend them out.)
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http://www.cks.nhs.uk/patient_information_leaflet/blood_pressure_low/causes#
Those BP’s are really good..they aren’t too low at all, your BP was probablly elevated when you went to the doctor because you were anxious or because you were sick..There is probally no need to take BP meds if your BP is that good.
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First of all have you tried comparing your readings to those taken with another blood pressure machine such as those at some pharmacies. I think one of your readings may be in error.(hopefully) In particular that first reading. Under usual circumstances a diastolic blood pressure of 35 is barely measurable. With such a low diastolic reading you should be on the verge of passing out. If you were to have blood pressure readings consistently (over a period of days) below 90/60, that would be low enough to require some form of treatment. (not necessarily medication) All your other readings are also on the low side of normal. I would say your decision to not take the blood pressure medication was quite correct. One single reading of high blood pressure does not present the whole picture. I am a bit surprised he wanted to give you any meds for it. In your case if you were to eliminate the highest and lowest readings of the four you took, and average the remainder you get, 103/57. This is on the lower end of the normal range. Which is good. If your blood pressure dips to lower levels during the day (which it could very well do)you would no doubt feel very tired. If you continue to have that "very, very tired" feeling you may wish to be examined by a cardiologist.
Smoking is normally associated with high blood pressure. If anything your blood pressure should be higher than it is. It makes you wonder what your blood pressure would be if you did not smoke! If possible take a reading when you are having one of those very tired feelings. Best of luck to you.
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Those BP readings are actually good!! Ur BP could have been up that day because you had an infection..high BP is a symptom of infection
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