Blood pressure

[Gilbert79]

My blood pressure medication has just been increased to 160mg (do not know what it is called). My problem is that i play squash and by the third game i start getting dizzie-- i took my blood pressure after each game and it is as follows: 118/79 149 pulse, 121/107 149 pulse, 118/72 147 pulse, 108/71 pulse 147....

I also played soccer on the weekend and in the afternoon when lying down i kept getting dizzie when getting up.

I find that my blood pressure goes down and down when exercising...

[hava]

Do this breathing technique and it will help to control the blood pressure.
Build up your timing gradually.If you feel tired or dizzy, stop and resume after one minute.
Anulom Vilom –
Close your right nostril with thumb and deep breath-in through left nostril  
then – close left nostril with two fingers and breath-out through right nostril  
then -keeping the left nostril closed  deep breath-in through right nostril
then - close your right nostril with thumb and breath-out through left nostril.
This is one cycle of anulom vilom.
Repeat this cycle for 15 to 30  minutes twice a day.
Children under 15 years – do 5 to 10 minutes twice a day.
You can do this before breakfast/lunch/dinner or before bedtime or in bed.Remember to take deep long breaths into the lungs.You can do this while sitting on floor or chair or lying in bed.

[erijon]

Totally normal, low blood pressure is considered anything below 90/60. After a good soccer game my numbers would drop that low as well, totally normal. Even today, after spending 90 mins pushing a lawn mower with my heart rate at 130 plus for most of the time, my pressure was 106/65.

Jon

[Gilbert79]

OK - Well I have more information. After playing Soccer on Sunday morning my blood pressure went down to 103 / 62 pulse at 78 (3hrs after playing)

Prior to soccer pressure was normal with medication at 124 / 75 pulse 78. How low can i go without danger?

Is it normal to be fluctuating this much???

[erijon]

When you exercise, the heart pumps more blood to your large muscle groups in you legs, arms etc. to meet their demand. That's why your blood pressure is lower after you exercise, the blood is still in these large muscles causing pressure to be lower. Also, your dizziness is most likely due to the lack of a cool down period. When you stop exercising suddenly, it will cause your blood pressure to drop, like when you get up too quickly. You need to gradually lower the demand on your heart by doing some kind of cool down exercise like walking or light stretching. Try it, your dizziness will most likely go away.

Good luck,

Jon

[Gilbert79]

Just finished playing tennis and blood pressure is 107 - 68 pulse 96 taken about one hour after... Why does my pressure get so low after exercise? ? ? ? When i sit down or lie down after exercise i get dizziiii. Is my medication to much...

[ed34]

I know hydrochlorothiazide can be used for blood pressure, but you do seem to be on a strange mixture of medication. When you exercise you will become dehydrated much quicker than anyone else and dizziness can be a sign of this. Are you drinking plenty of fluids when playing squash?

[ed34]

why are you taking hydrochlorothiazide? Do you have a kidney, heart or liver problem?

[Gilbert79]

OK I have more information: My medication is Diovan 160mg and 12.5 mg valsartan and hydrochlorothiazide. And yes this was a typo should read 121/71

This whole thing drive me crazy---- blood pressure keeps going down as I further into the squash game --- then I get dizzy.......

[ChatterAlly]

I find that I get dizzy when my blood pressure drops.

[RadioAstronomyObserver]

"121/107"  Was this a typo?

[ed34]

Are you on a beta blocker or similar medication such as calcium channel blockers.
Just a thought, but your heart rate does look flat across the board like it has hit some kind of ceiling level and so the arteries are doing all the compensating. Does your heart rate ever exceed 149? Squash is a very energetic game and doing similar exertion my heart rate would be going up and down between 120 and 180. It was never just one level.