High Blood Pressure While Active - High & Low Blood Pressure Message Board

RICH7 · 04-05-2005, 08:55 AM

Is your bp supposed to go up when you are active?? When I am resting my bp is low....when I am active what so ever...it goes pretty high.

Random2 · 04-05-2005, 10:36 AM

Yes it's natural. It should decrease, as well as your pulse rate with a regular routine of excercise.

rigel434 · 04-05-2005, 12:15 PM

Yes. Even normal peoples' systolic goes up to 200 or so while they are running. Lesser degrees of activity provoke a lesser but still noticable spike.

RICH7 · 04-05-2005, 12:48 PM

Well... I mean I dont even have to be exercising or anything. Just me walking from the kitchen to the bedroom to check my blood pressure---it just seems so high. I will get readings at high as 130/100. Then I will lay down on the bed and wait a few min. and it will go down to like 122/85 or 87...the longer I lay there the lower it gets. For instance...I checked it lastnight after just washing dishes. Nothing strenuous. And it was 120 something over high 80's. Then I layed down to watch a movie and about a half hour later I checked it and it was as low as 96/68.

Is this normal???

I went to the doctor Thursday...because I got concerned because I had had some high readings....and I am on the pill. When I got to the doctors office my bp was fine. When I got home that night. It was 120-something over high 80's again.......and the doctor said to call him if I get anything higher than 135/85. And he wanted me to check it only once a week.

Well...I checked it several times over the weekend...and still was getting some high readings....without really doing anything. Saturday night I got a reading of 129/98. Then I rested...it did come down some.

Then I woke up Monday morning without getting up and it was 110/70. Got up took a shower...checked it and it was something like 126/86.

I called my doctor today and told the nurse I was still getting higher readings and she said to monitor it...sit for 5-10 min before taking it because that is an accurate reading. IS THIS TRUE????

She said I need to keep my bottom number as low as possible...like low 80's or 70's.

But should my bp be rising that much when I am barely even doing anything????

I am concerned.

Uff-Da! · 04-05-2005, 01:09 PM

It sounds to me like you are much like me - out of shape!

What is your age? What is your activity level? Are you a smoker or do you consume excess amounts of alcohol?

Everyone has normal fluctuations of blood pressure when they are doing things. For those of us who are out of shape physically, the fluctuations from just walking from one room to another will tend to be much greater than for those who exercise regularly.

The recommendation is that RESTING blood pressure should be under 120/80. Pre-hypertension is from a RESTING 120/80 to 139/89. (Pre-hypertension just means "watch it," it doesn't mean you have high blood pressure.) Hypertension is a RESTING blood pressure of 140/90 and greater. Some people say you should rest quietly for five minutes before taking a reading. Others say that should be ten or fifteen minutes. But it is the resting numbers which are used for comparison against these guidelines.