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What range does your blood pressure fall into?
High blood pressure 21%  21%  [ 10 ]
Low blood pressure 40%  40%  [ 19 ]
Normal blood pressure 40%  40%  [ 19 ]
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strapshoechris
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24 Jan 2010, 3:01 pm

Must be really lucky. In addition my lipids have "gone to the moon" and I'm 80 pounds overweight.



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25 Jan 2010, 2:37 am

strapshoechris wrote:
Must be really lucky. In addition my lipids have "gone to the moon" and I'm 80 pounds overweight.


Don't worry...you'll still die eventually.



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25 Jan 2010, 8:21 am

That's exactly my mindset. I figure I could go on a crash diet, get back to my ideal 154 pounds, turn vegan, stop drinking, join a gym, and on my way jogging home from that first aerobics class get run over by a runaway bus.



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28 Jan 2010, 11:45 am

Last time I checked I was bordering on hypotension. I tend to mention this and my low cholesterol whenever I eat things like deep fried pizza. :P



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28 Jan 2010, 6:34 pm

strapshoechris wrote:
That's exactly my mindset. I figure I could go on a crash diet, get back to my ideal 154 pounds, turn vegan, stop drinking, join a gym, and on my way jogging home from that first aerobics class get run over by a runaway bus.


...although getting clobbered my a bus is waaaay better than rotting away on dialysis for years on end.



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31 Jan 2010, 9:26 pm

I don't know the exact number, but I have very low blood pressure and have to eat a lot of salt (even though I eat really healthy so that's hard) and be careful if there's a lot of heat.



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31 Jan 2010, 9:53 pm

Between ninety and a hundred over sixty odd. So, very low.



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16 Feb 2010, 11:03 pm

Mine always hovers somewhere around 110 over 80, or as high as 120 over 70, when in pain or stressed.


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16 Feb 2010, 11:57 pm

I really have no effing clue what my BP is, I haven't had it checked in a while.

I would reckon that it'd be on the low end of the average range. I get that... what was it called again? Orthostatic hypotension... You know, where you get up suddenly and almost pass out because your body is slow in getting blood to your head? Yeah, I used to have that happen to me all the time when I was living at sea level. I still get it here sometimes in Laramie, but I think the +7500 change in altitude helped a bit, because my body has to work harder to meet its oxygen quota because of the thinner air, et cetera, so it overcompensates.

I have one hell of a hard time getting up and moving in the mornings though, that might be BP-related as well.


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