Heart rate question

chrisaonabike

Bar Shaker wrote:

Thanks and I may yet get checked out.... BP tested at 158/85 and a resting pulse of 76 on Monday.

That seems quite high if it's a resting BP. I'd get a checkup if I were you.

Bar Shaker

ChrisAOnABike wrote:

Bar Shaker wrote:

Thanks and I may yet get checked out.... BP tested at 158/85 and a resting pulse of 76 on Monday.

That seems quite high if it's a resting BP. I'd get a checkup if I were you.

It's been high for a while and my GP has told me it is something to monitor but not worry about yet. If the second figure is consistently over 90 then it's a life on statins. I'd like to avoid that.

ai_1

Bar Shaker wrote:

ChrisAOnABike wrote:

Bar Shaker wrote:

Thanks and I may yet get checked out.... BP tested at 158/85 and a resting pulse of 76 on Monday.

That seems quite high if it's a resting BP. I'd get a checkup if I were you.

It's been high for a while and my GP has told me it is something to monitor but not worry about yet. If the second figure is consistently over 90 then it's a life on statins. I'd like to avoid that.

Is that BP figure from a test in the doctors surgery?

I got very similar figures at the doctors but when I wore a 24hr monitor it was much lower (still a smidge high but nothing to worry about)

That's called white coat syndrome BTW. The fact that you're aware your BP is being measured causes it to rise higher than normal for resting conditions thus making the measurement non representative

drlodge

My mum's BP was 210/140, the Doctors has to find a special device for measuring such high pressures!

gazeds

Statins wont lower your bp, there for cholestoral. I was hit by a van five year's ago, luckily I was only badly bruised, but when I went to see my GP he checked my BP and it was 200 over something, cant remember the bottom figure exactly. Since then ive been on rampril and amlodipine Bp tablet's. My Bp now average's around 110/60. I've been cycling for over twenty year's and I wonder if I had'nt, how much worse my health could have been.

Bar Shaker

Ai_1 wrote:

Is that BP figure from a test in the doctors surgery?

I got very similar figures at the doctors but when I wore a 24hr monitor it was much lower (still a smidge high but nothing to worry about)

That's called white coat syndrome BTW. The fact that you're aware your BP is being measured causes it to rise higher than normal for resting conditions thus making the measurement non representative

I have my own Omnicom tester but I found the same. My own tests, even doing 3 and really relaxing, were higher than the 24 hour tester showed.