Blood pressure.?

Question

I have just tested my blood pressure and it is 108 over 76,how low does it have to be before I should see my Doctor.

Answer 1

Registered Nurse here; Hun the reading you have 108/76, is great doesn't get any better. The universal norm is 120/80, however if one if very healthy many times there blood pressure will be below the universal norm, which is great. One doesn't need to worry or be concerned if there B/P is lower, as long as the individually is healthy, active, feeling well. When one becomes dizzy, not active, experiencing other symptoms of ill health, then a lower B/P reading would be of concern. Your fine dear, be grateful for your reading. DON'T WORRY BE HAPPY; TAKE CARE, I thank you for being allowed to address such an important, worthwhile, and well worded question.

Answer 2

108/76 is certainly nothing to be worried about. A lot of people would kill to have that kind of reading. Only thing I would comment on is that the diastolic (the lower figure) does seem a little high relative to the systolic - the high number when the heart is actually doing a pump. Not anything to get paranoid about, but here's a fairly good guage to go by. Current medical wisdom is that the "ideal" reading demonstrates between 40 and 50 points of difference between the lower number and the higher one. For the longest time the "magic reading" was 120/70 (fifty points difference). These days doctors tend to like to see things a little closer to that 40 point difference. But again, we're talking about "heavenly perfection" and not something that'll send you there LOL.
What is best is to see the heart's "resting number" (diastolic) in the sixty-seventy range. And if there is a reeeeally big gap between the lower number and the higher one, it suggests that the heart is having to do some reeeeally hard pushing to get that blood pumped round the body - or one of the several factors that sends a message to the heart to pump harder, could be overreacting to some external or internal 'trigger'
The really important thing, though, is to just be sensible about keeping a watch on your blood pressure. It isn't the short-term ups and downs, as your heart responds to greater or lesser activity levels throughout the day, that you need to be so much concerned about, as any major shift away from normal reasonable readings that might have been going on for a while. Awful lot of people have come to grief from not picking up on something like that, because they simply never check their blood pressure at all. They don't call hypertension the "silent killer" for nothing. People don't usually get any kind of physical sensation to tell them that their BP is "over the top" - or maybe they get some kind of feeling, but lay it off on something else.. You're doing the right thing monitoring it. Keep it up.

Answer 3

Blood pressure measurements don't count for anything if you've been walking around. Ideally, you should be sitting down for at least 5 minutes or so. Blood pressure also can vary during the day, so it's best to get measurements from similar times during the day. No caffeine in the morning either. These measurements should be repeated on a few separate occasions. Some people get "white coat hypertension" when they go to the doctor's office because they are nervous. Probably blood pressure medicines wouldn't kill you. But you don't necessarily need blood pressure medicines if your blood pressure is only high while active. When doctors study the effects of high blood pressure, they study the effects of people who are diagnosed with it as described above. You are probably at no higher cardiac risk from your blood pressure.

Answer 4

Your blood pressure sounds fine, but it needs to be taken over a few days to get a "norm". How low depends on each individual as figures in books etc. are based on average weights, heights, ages etc. Time to worry is when the lower figure drops or when it goes up over 100 (high blood pressure)

Answer 5

Average daytime ABPM blood pressure is lower than equivalent blood pressure readings.

A high reading using ABPM is:


above 135/85 for the general population


above 130/80 for people with diabetes.

Answer 6

Hi im a nurse and that b/p sounds fine as long as you are not having any dizzy spells or feeling faint or light headed. My blood pressure is always around that level and its normal.
a low b/p would be 80/50 or below. then you would need to seek medical advice.

Answer 7

When I was in hospital I was told 120/70 was about normal. Mine was lower because I was given medication to lower it after having a heart attack. My readings were 100/60 quite regularly but if you have any medical concerns I should ask my doctor.

Answer 8

That is a very good reading for blood pressure. Don't worry about it.

Answer 9

That's fine. But you should have your blood pressure reading done at the doc's, their equipment is generally more reliable than home kits.

Answer 10

That is a GREAT blood pressure, perfectly normal. Textbook healthy.