Q: My boyfriend (age 53) takes medication for high blood pressure. At rest his blood pressure is always on the low end of the normal range like 100/64 to 110/70. However when he exercises his blood pressure goes up to 200/110 with hardly any exertion and he doesn’t even feel like he’s worked up a sweat yet. He is dieting to lose 25 extra pounds. He’s basically avoiding eating red meat and chicken in his diet. Any further suggestions?
A: It sounds like your boyfriend’s blood pressure is not in good control if minimal activity makes it go sky high. He needs to see his doctor. He may want to consider the DASH diet for blood pressure. For more information go to: Dash Diet
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What about the possible fact that your boy friend’s organism has created a tolerance to his blood pressure medication and this is responsible for the excessive blood pressure elevation with minimal exercising?.
I think .you have bp induced exercise .that will be will controlled if you add small dose of beta blocker
What happens to his pulse rate during exercise? There is usually a connection between pulse rate, blood pressure, and atmospheric pressure. You should be monitoring all these variables. (Sometimes atmospheric pressure changes dramatically in a matter of hours.) Some manufacturers of blood pressure monitors attempt to avoid liability by not including the atmospheric pressure, too. (Get a digital barometer to solve this problem.) I am 54 years old, and have “high” blood pressure, but it is quite unusual for me to have a heightened pressure simply from exercising. The pulse rate may go up a little, but it usually goes down after an hour. Can you post some more numbers for us to look at? Have you measured his blood pressure when he takes a dip in the swimming pool?
We have been told that heart rate is supposed to go up during exercise for maximum benefit (ie the whole 220- age formula). This would imply that BP also increases. On another online blog I read that it can increase to 200 but that is under exertion. My resting BP is around 120/65 without meds and heart rate around 50. Immediately after exercise my BP can increase to 150-160/70-80 and heart rate to about 70. Quite honestly the white coat syndrome has a stronger effect on my BP than exercise does. I’ll see 180-190/90 from that.
He really should see his doctor. There might be an underlying reason for the spike, and if so, testing will help pinpoint the cause. If meds need to be changed, that could be done too. He should go sooner rather than later. His body’s trying to tell him something.
This happened to me when I was on a Beta Blocker. After a five mile brisk walk I discovered that my pulse rate was only 50 (!)and, to my great horror, the BP reading on my monitor at home was 180/100. BP does rise a bit during exertion, but it should not go up to 200/110! If he happens to be on a Beta Blocker he must see his doctor straight away!
My doctor casually remarked: Oh well, this Beta Blocker was a bit too strong for you.
Too strong? I am sure it could have killed me had I kept taking it.
Talk to your doctor a.s.a.p.!
I am on Verapamil HCI and have been for about 5 years, My B/P runs avg at 159/58, plus Losartan 1x/day
Any suggestions?
I doubt the DASH diet will make much difference. I tried this for 2 months and didn’t see much change in my BP. A US News & World Report survey poll indicated that this diet only worked for 30% of the respondents.
I have been having problem managing my BP for the past four months now. I was Atacand plus (8mg) and Aspirin (75mg) daily and I was doing fairly ok. However I keep having sporadic spikes in BP, palpitation and sometimes with chest pains while at rest. sometimes I have figures as high as 190/103. And without doing anything it gradually comes down to normal range within about an hour. I have visited a number of Cadiologists, and have done 24 hours BP monitor, stressed EKG, Ecocardiogram, Nuclear stress test and MRI of the brain all in effort to trace what may be responsible for the spikes without success. My been placed on carvidelol, Plavix, and now on atanolol (100mg)& losantan (100mg) but the spike still comes up. What next can I do.