What's your blood pressure?

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I wonder if isolation and social anxiety might be connected to high blood pressure because I'm 23 and I have blood pressure around 140/70 and my weight is pretty much normal. (I'm not really socially anxious, but I'm still somewhat isolated.)

Mine at my last doctor's visit was like 120/80 I think I will be seeing the doctor the 28th so I will up date my post. My blood pressure spikes when in social situations when I am around new people. I get dizzy and sweaty from it. From having my blood pressure go up and down on a daily basis it has caused me to loose some kidney function and an enlarged heart. My blood pressure went untreated for ten years. When I was 35 I was in congestive heart failure due to my high blood pressure, enlarged heart, and fluid build up in my lungs and body. When I went to the hospital they all most had to put me on a breathing machine. I spent 5 days in ICU it took three days for me to piss out all the fluids. When I was first admitted to the hospital my blood pressure was 270/110 the intern who read my pressure had to get a nurse to re-read it because she never saw blood pressure do high. Everytime I coughed fluid would spill out into my kleenixs. It would be drenched on each cough they said it I would have waited on more day I would have drowned on the fluid.

What set my blood pressure to spike so bad was due to my bosses re-arranging all the cnc machines and they moved me from a quiet room where I worked alone to having to work by the loudest of machines. I was a nervous wreck my bosses even put in a wooden wall to act as a baffler to absorb some the sound and vibration but it was too late the damage to me was done. I was out of work for two month.

http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/anxiety/AN01086

Last edited by Todesking on 20 Apr 2011, 11:19 pm, edited 1 time in total.

It can contribute to higher blood pressure, so can caffeine consumption. Exercise everyday can help bring the numbers down.

I have had high blood pressure since my early thirties, if not earlier. And I have highish levels of anxiety.

No idea if there is a general connection except that, when I am stressed, my BP goes up significantly. I take beta blockers and other medication to control it, so it usually sits just under 120/80 ... unless I am feeling stressed.

Your best bet is to find a cardiac specialist who knows what they are doing. It took three months to try to find the right combination of pills to get my blood pressure down. I also take iron pills, fish oil, folic acid, and vitamin D to help my heart and blood pressure. If you go untreated it will kill you, it almost killed me. They told me I had high blood pressure when I was 25 I could not afford to treat it. 10 years of non-treatment made my heart bigger, just about ruined my kidneys, and cause my lungs to fill with fluid almost drowning me in my sleep. So get treatment or you will regreat it later like I did.

You can try inhaling and exhaling slowly when stressed, counting one one thousand two one thousand, three one thousand to four seconds for the inhale and four seconds for the exhale, repeating until you feel calm.

Normally 125-130/70-75

When I get really anxious it spikes up. I was supposed to get a root canal last week at a new dentist who kept all their drills and other tools on swinging arms on the chair (my regular dentist keeps them in drawers behind the chair and doesn't get them out until I am seated and can't see). They couldn't work on me because my blood pressure was 170/110.

I was 120/80 but then it dropped to 110/70 when I started exercising a lot. What could cause some to have high blood pressure if they're of normal weight?

Someone told me I should have high blood pressure because of anger/anxiety issues, but I don't. Real causes of things may not have anything to do with anecdotal models.

85/50 at my last doctor's visit....

smoking, stress, potassium deficiency (hypokalemia),salt (sodium) sensitivity, alcohol intake, vitamin D deficiency, aging, some inherited genetic mutations, having a family history of hypertension, an elevated level of renin, sympathetic nervous system overactivity, insulin resistance, Cushing's syndrome, hyperthyroidism, hypothyroidism, certain tumors of the adrenal medulla, kidney disease, certain prescription and illegal drugs

98 over 68 was my average today!

85/50 for me, too. Nurses are always taking it twice, then asking "are you alright?" Heh.

Don't remember the exact numbers but I'm at the low end of average.

My blood pressure usually ranges from 90/60 to 110/80 at most. For someone who is 35 years old, is slightly overweight, is a pack a day smoker and is diagnosed with a severe social anxiety disorder, Generalised Anxiety, depression and agoraphobia (and not an ASD, although I suspect one) it's very good (amazingly).

I sometimes wonder if I get as stressed out as I think as I don't really get increased blood pressure in situations where I am feeling what I call anxious, nor do I shake or sweat. I do, however feel a bit confused and a get a headache from trying to process everything and work people out lol.

My blood pressure is around 160/115 when I'm suffering from allergies, but it's about 120/73 when I'm not suffering from allergies.

I have found only a very tiny correlation between my blood pressure and stress/anxiety. I have also read several papers that also claim that there really isn't much of a link between anxiety and high blood pressure, but rather that having high blood pressure already means that your nervous system is operating at an elevated level so any additional stress may cause a severe effect.

My BP usually runs normal and occasionally drops low to very low, but I have some autonomic dysfunction.