Blood Pressure When Exercising?

[Nikki]

I just did 15 minutes of light cardio on my Wii. I took my blood pressure when I was finished since I was feeling a little more dizzy & having some shortness of breath. I got a reading of 156/136 and 112 beats. Now, I know the top isn't that bad for doing some exercise..but the bottom seems pretty high to me. Is that normal for people with dysautonomia? Everything I read says the diastolic shouldn't change a whole lot, or possibly 15mm at most. Mine is normally in the 60's or low 70's..My blood pressure is normally all over the place but when it gets that high, I feel just as bad as when it's low..Does anyone else have this happen?

[lieze]

Jeepers no wonder you were feeling dizzy.

Did you check it again did it come down fairly quickly?

[Nikki]

Well, about 10 minutes later it was 112/90 and my heart rate when up to 130. When I laid down for a bit it went down to my normal 100/70 and 70-some beats. I was just wondering cause a lot of people told me anything under 200 for the systolic is fine, but that's usually not the number that goes crazy for me lol.

[Lovebug]

Were you well hydrated when you exercised? When I get orthostatic my BP goes up as well as my HR. Maybe you should try exercise in the lying down position. There is a thread started on Exercise by yuliya if you'd like to check it out. I hope you do much better the next time you exercise. Personally, I would not like my diastolic number as high as yours was...did you take it manually or on a machine?