Posted by grapebubblegum on June 19, 2001, at 13:15:37
I'm sure his advice was correct given the information he had at the time....
I walked into Wal-Mart Super-de-Duper-Center last night and plopped myself down in the b.p. machine chair and got a reading of 97/50. I asked for the pharmacist's opinion of my plans to go exercise at the track next (It's Florida here and always 85 degrees or so) and he said, "That is very low. Don't go to the track."
I did my shopping and came back and tried again and got a reading of 119/58. That sounded respectable to me so I went to the track anyway.
Now Cam, you know because I've said a million times that I take clonazepam .125 mg 3 x per day. My b.p. tends to be low anyway but I've always been told, "there's really no such thing as TOO low b.p.; as long as it is not high you are fine."
On a few different occasions in hospital when sick they drugged me up various antiemetic and/or antianxiety meds and I swear I saw 80/50 or even 60/40 or lower on b.p. machine. My doc at the time said that's ok for being in bed sleeping. I do not understand the world of blood pressure.
Could you give me a brief overview of the world of low blood pressure safety while sleeping/on meds/outside exercising? To give contrast, one day last week I felt that I was about to keel over dead or at least faint and another nice pharmacist personally took my b.p. (there was no machine) and it turned out to be nice and high, like geez... 130 something over 85 or so. She said, "the heat must be hitting you hard; drink some fluids."
So I cannot correlate feeling good or bad with b.p. readings. Assuming I don't have to worry about high b.p., what kind of low pressure should I worry about? I do try to remember to eat salt and drink fluids like a cardiologist once told me to do.
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