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ludykriz · 04-04-2010, 01:33 AM

hello all.. i have posted here before about having high blood pressure now i am going to post a question regarding low bp? just few days ago i went to a doctor got checked out and she said everything is normal. i been posting about high blood pressure.. this morning when i woke up instantly when opening my eyes i felt as if my bed was sideways i jumped back in shock and realized that everything is normal. when i looked up the ceeling was spinning for a second two.. i felt fatigue, and the need to drink water. well after i drank some coca cola i felt fine.. such thing happened once in my lifetime about 5 months ago.. it was much worse.. everything spinning every 15 minutes.. i ended up throwing up and had diarrhea. i was told it was low blood pressure so eating chocolate would help out.. so thats what i did and it stopped all of the above.. i forgot to mention this episode to my doctor when i got checked out on friday.. should i be worried? i dont have the bp machine to take my bp because i am away from home for easter but my bp varies.. usually when i wake up its 117/69 .. 79... sometimes at night it could be high 145/85.. anyhow some feedback would be great!

ludykriz · 04-04-2010, 05:46 AM

just few days ago i went to a doctor got checked out and she said everything is normal. this morning when i woke up instantly when opening my eyes i felt as if my bed was sideways i jumped back in shock and realized that everything is normal. when i looked up the ceeling was spinning for a second two.. i felt fatigue, and the need to drink water. well after i drank some coca cola i felt fine.. such thing happened once in my lifetime about 5 months ago.. it was much worse.. everything spinning every 15 minutes.. i ended up throwing up and had diarrhea. i was told it was low blood pressure so eating chocolate would help out.. so thats what i did and it stopped all of the above.. i forgot to mention this episode to my doctor when i got checked out on friday.. should i be worried? i dont have the bp machine to take my bp because i am away from home for easter but my bp varies.. usually when i wake up its 117/69 .. 79... sometimes at night it could be high 145/85.. anyhow some feedback would be great!

zekat · 04-04-2010, 06:15 AM

Your blood pressure is supposed to vary during the day. At this point it sounds like you are having an OCD episode over your blood pressure (I've been there, and know what it is like.). There is absolutely NO reason to allow worry over your blood pressure to control so much of your thought process. You should talk to your doctor about treatment for obsessive thinking.

Back to fluctuating blood pressure, I had a stress test last year and they record your blood pressure as your walk. At the peak of my test, where I was working the hardest, my BP was 196/80 (or something similar) and that was within the normal range for that amount of exercise. BP goes UP with activity. At 60 seconds after the test, it was 140/95. Both were considered "normal". Within 3 minutes, my numbers were back in a resting range 122/79. I bring this up to illustrate the point that blood pressure varies. Take your average BP over time, and move on.

ludykriz · 04-04-2010, 06:23 AM

thanks.. yeah i have been taking my bp and writing it down.. its been normal.. and i even put away the bp reader... i stopped thinking about it.. but before just like you within 5 minutes my bp went from high to normal. but i was lil shocked this morning when this happened.. i gotta say been under little pressure at work.. it only happened 2 times in my life when i woke up and everything was spinning so i am lil curious.

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