Blood pressure reading?!?

Fit4LifeAR wrote: »

I was just at the doctor and the nurse took my blood pressure. It was 112/70, and she asked me if I normally have blood pressure problems. She was insinuating that it was too high?!? I am confused, I thought that was a good reading. My blood pressure was 112/70 and my HR was 62. Am I wrong? Have the standards changed?

120/80 is considered normal. I would question why that nurse thought otherwise.

Perhaps she was insinuating that it was low.

112/70 is pretty normal. For what it's worth, doctors are now pushing harder for people to keep their blood pressure under 120. Basically, lower the better, to a point.

psulemon wrote: »

Fit4LifeAR wrote: »

I was just at the doctor and the nurse took my blood pressure. It was 112/70, and she asked me if I normally have blood pressure problems. She was insinuating that it was too high?!? I am confused, I thought that was a good reading. My blood pressure was 112/70 and my HR was 62. Am I wrong? Have the standards changed?

120/80 is considered normal. I would question why that nurse thought otherwise.

120/80 is prehypertensive.

As for why she asked you, you'd have to ask her. I'm a nurse and there's a million reasons I might ask a patient about their blood pressure and health history.

Wicked_Seraph wrote: »

hekla90 wrote: »

psulemon wrote: »

Fit4LifeAR wrote: »

I was just at the doctor and the nurse took my blood pressure. It was 112/70, and she asked me if I normally have blood pressure problems. She was insinuating that it was too high?!? I am confused, I thought that was a good reading. My blood pressure was 112/70 and my HR was 62. Am I wrong? Have the standards changed?

120/80 is considered normal. I would question why that nurse thought otherwise.

120/80 is prehypertensive.

As for why she asked you, you'd have to ask her. I'm a nurse and there's a million reasons I might ask a patient about their blood pressure and health history.

That's interesting - my mother (also a nurse) took my blood pressure last night and said 120/80 was excellent...

Mine used to be lower a few years back - a different GYN switched me to a HBC a year ago that ended up giving me REALLY high blood pressure (like, 160/100) that I was totally unaware of until I went back to my old GYN a few weeks ago and she was like WHOA, YOUR BLOOD PRESSURE IS REALLY HIGH??? I had no idea HBC could raise blood pressure, and despite being obese it was NEVER a problem for me, so in the year I was on that pill I never thought to check it.

Hopefully 120/80 is an intermediary back to my old BP rather than its new baseline

I don't mean to sound rude but if she's older, it's a pretty new guideline so she might not be familiar with it. Depends on your population too, on my unit we are pretty happy with with anything between 90-159 and under 100 diastolic and a map over 65. No ones panties are going to get in a wad with a blood pressure of 120/80 anywhere, but it's definitely not ideal and perfect like some have the idea it is and essentially places you at risk of developing full blown hypertension. For someone outside a hospital that is otherwise healthy it's borderline high basically, definitely not excellent. And yes, birth control can raise it quite dangerously high for some people- also cough medicine is one as well.

And we took my dads bp he has genetic hypertension and it was 177/105. He bikes all the time and his heart rate is 48 but damn than hypertension is scary. He didn't understand why I was so freaked, his pressure at rest is higher than my systolic!

http://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/prehypertension/basics/definition/con-20026271

I checked mine today, it was 126/80. It was not much lower when I was on medication.