BG drop but also BP drop. Anyone?

Scarlet Phantom · 08-08-2011, 15:20

My blood glucose has continued to drop to more healthy numbers

and I'm very happy about this but I've also been experiencing blood pressure drops. I average 95/65. Needless to say, I don't feel good. BP was always good, around 115/75 on average.

Could a significant drop in BG cause a BP drop?

Lost weight too. Went from size 14 to size 10 (since mid July). I never weigh myself. I check how my clothes fit or don't fit.

Feedback?

foxl · 08-08-2011, 16:40

Not I, but recent theory is that hypertension is correlated to circulating INSULIN, rather than sodium ... so that might explain it?

Scarlet Phantom · 08-14-2011, 11:57

...still having problems with low blood pressure. I find it difficult to work when BP averages 90/60. Doctor suggested I continue to monitor but in the meantime I don't feel good. At all.

tgreen · 08-14-2011, 21:08

i know that i have found that if i am having a BG spike that my BP will be higher at the same time too.

Adjitater · 08-14-2011, 21:53

Adrenal function has the biggest impact on blood pressure. Mime was 80/40 right before I got diagnosed with Addisons. I know what you mean about it being being difficult. It is like walking in knee deep mud all day long. Then you sleep and think it will be better but it is not.

Shanny · 08-14-2011, 22:10

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Originally Posted by Scarlet Phantom

...still having problems with low blood pressure. I find it difficult to work when BP averages 90/60. Doctor suggested I continue to monitor but in the meantime I don't feel good. At all.

So if your AVERAGE b/p is 90/60, what are some of your lower readings? Do you feel poorly when you're actally at 90/60, or just when it drops lower than that? What is your heart rate (pulse) when your b/p is low? Are you staying well hydrated? I only ask because 90/60 is a pretty safe level - usually acknowledged to be low-normal . . . normal being 120/80.

I do take atenolol for my hypertension, and my systolic levels are higher, but my diastolic levels are in the high 60s/low 70s all the time. I'm not the most active person in the world, but I never feel weak or tired at these levels.

It seems to me that your weight loss in one single month is alarming. There could be many things contributing to this, but if you aren't consciously trying to lose weight, or you don't have a great amount to lose, I think I'd begin worrying about what's going on here. Surely you get weighed at your doctor's office - what are those numbers telling you?

Scarlet Phantom · 08-15-2011, 00:00

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Originally Posted by Shanny

So if your AVERAGE b/p is 90/60, what are some of your lower readings?

My lowest was 73/53. That one was scary. Pulse was 55.

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Originally Posted by Shanny

Do you feel poorly when you're actally at 90/60, or just when it drops lower than that?

I feel like sitting down all the time when I'm at 90/60. My job is quite physical and requires me to be on the go all the time. I can work 36 hours in 3 days. It happens often! BP used to be around 115/75 and back then I felt great with those numbers. Heart rate can vary between 65 and 75 but I'm seldom over 80. Heart rate was the same when BP was 115/75.

In the morning BP is around 100/65. I don't feel bad or weak but I don't feel my usual bubbly self either.

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Originally Posted by Shanny

It seems to me that your weight loss in one single month is alarming. There could be many things contributing to this, but if you aren't consciously trying to lose weight, or you don't have a great amount to lose, I think I'd begin worrying about what's going on here. Surely you get weighed at your doctor's office - what are those numbers telling you?

My job and the fact I was not testing contributed largely to my falling off the wagon. At one point I think I was only surviving on bread alone. I've lost a lot of weight when I switched to low carbing back in July but I haven't lost anything in the last 6 days. My doc thinks it's great I've lost that weight. I don't want to lose more though. I've been exercising more too.

I'm working on drinking more water. I just hate drinking water. Maybe I was a camel in another life?

I was under the impression 120/80 was normal BP and anything lower was too low.

moon · 08-15-2011, 00:47

Normal BP is between 140/90 and 90/60 according to this chart:

Blood Pressure Chart - Normal Blood Pressure Range

Mine runs between 105-115/70 and I couldn't be happier. 140/90 seems high to me, but what do I know.

Shanny · 08-15-2011, 00:53

I think the "normal" was adjusted downward from 140/90 awhile back - now it's 120/80, as far as I know . . . but as you say: but what DO we know??

moon · 08-15-2011, 02:09

120/80 is surely more reasonable - and you're jogging a long-ago memory of the range being adjusted downwards.

It seems that 90 systolic is the low end of normal, and <90 would be low?

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