Q: I just had a stress test done and an echo. Everything came out normal but my blood pressure goes up high when exercising. What can I do?
A: Take to your doctor about your exercise program. It is normal for blood pressure to increase with exercise but your pressure should stay in control. You may be trying to exercise too vigorously too soon. You may need to avoid certain exercises until your body is more conditioned.
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Sorry, doc…….your blood pressure will NOT stay within normal ranges with vigorous exercise. That is one of its advantages, as blood pressure is reduced for a number of reasons once you return to normal, resting heart rate.
You seem to have missed the point. The question is, does blood pressure normally go very high during exercise? The answer is, it goes up, but should stay in control. What happens after you return to normal is an entirely different question.
take the measure after one hour when you are relax ok
As D Carestia points out, BP rises a great deal when exercising vigorously and that is normal and necessary.
Also during stress and concentration.
Info on these excursions of BP is not often made available and I know people who monitor their BP frequently, who worry about these excursions, and try to maintain a trance-like calm at all times.
Let’s put out info on BP as it varies during typical daily activities.
When I take my bp outside the doctor’s office, say in a drug store it is optimal 117/75 but the moment i visit my doctor it goes to 130/85. Why is this happening?
Thanks
Padmasani
Visiting a doctor can make you stressful
My experience is that exercise has a minimal effect on blood pressure, and a major effect on pulse rate. That’s one data point. We don’t have a ‘blood pressure’, we have a ‘blood pressure profile’, and this should be the subject of study …. what is normal, abnormal, etc., of course it’s more complicated than a single pair of numbers, but it is the reality of blood pressure.
“My experience is that exercise has a minimal effect on blood pressure,”
My experience is exactly the opposite. My BP is SIGNIFICANTLY lower after two years of exercise, and continues to fall. Of course, exercise is part of a healthy lifestyle which might include dietary changes and weigh management.
I meant short term, that is that immediately after exercise my BP is not elevated, but my pulse rate is elevated.
On the other hand pain will raise my BP quite a bit.
I am 72 and lift as part of my training regime.
Two years ago my resting systolic pressure shocked me when it indicated about 145.
Following my doctor’s suggestion that I lose 20 pounds my systolic blood pressure went down to the 120’s.
There is a history of high blood pressure with my grandmother and my mother. I’m concerned lifting at 80% plus max with low reps would be potentially hazardous. I have reverted to lifting weights I can handle for 20 reps.
Do you think this is a satisfactory solution? I would prefer to stay away from taking medication.
My pulse is around 50 bpm.
Grant Standbrook
forget the lifts and try cardio workouts such as treadmill and stair climber if possible. Change in diet to raw veggies and fruits. Try resistive bands instead of weights. This has dropped my BP from 147/96 to 125/70. Also weight dropped from 210 to 190 following this program in the last 45 days. Meds is the last resourse, GOOD LUCK!
I started having severe headaches during sex specially at the peak, I thought I was getting migraine or vascular type of headaches, because they were very intense and throbbing I decided to check my B/P during sex and I noticed it goes from a resting 117/70 to a whopping 220/85 the headaches are under control but is this hughe rise in B/P normal or should I do something about it?