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Is low blood pressure caused from MS?
I have been falling asleep during dinner again, sleeping throughout the day again...
BUT...I now have a blood pressure monitor, as advised by doc/nurse, etc... DH insists on me keeping track of BP while this has started again...it is LOW LOW LOW...80s/50s...pulse seems okay, in the low 60s (it's usually in the mid 70s at rest though). I can't really find any medical papers online attributing this to MS...but wonder if any of you have heard of or experienced this... It's one thing after another...:rolleyes: |
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I think it's more likely, that some of your Med are the cause. MS can and does do some strange things to our systems, so, it could possibly be the culprit?
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My BP was 90/60 during my youth. At night I would often have a resting pulse of 40. This was said by the doctor that it indicated excellent health, a good heart because of the exercise I had done. But it made me tired, and it was suggested I eat more salt to raise my BP. I did not have an MS dx, although it was suspected because of the family connection to MS. However, no dx until AFTER my BP went UP.
In middle age, my BP went up a lot, to about 140/90. The doctor didn't take that very seriously, saying it was the stress of work and I could go on a low salt diet and fix it. I told the nurse that I suspected that the doctor did not take my situation seriously because I was a woman, a mere woman. The nurse smiled knowingly, and kept smiling a lot more when I saw her in the hall of the clinic (UW Hospital clinic). Anyway, the low salt diet caused me to nearly pass out several times, and my husband had to rescue me, leave his work to gather me from wherever I nearly passed out. This continued, but finally my neurological status was bad enough so I had Optic Neuritis and got a DX through several tests. My BP is now wonderfully normal except when I have an "attack". By attack I mean an attack of any of my three diseases which affect my neurological status. Then it can go up alarmingly. I regulate my tendency to get a fast pulse with a low dose of Propanalol, but a-fib can rear its ugly head. The only time in recent years I have had a too low pulse was when I took a bad medication. Bad for me. The recent culprits have been chemotherapy for high platelets. Hydrox-Urea and Interferon and Angrelide. All ER level situations. I had to take radiation to lower my platelets, which worked without side effects, but it is dangerous in that 10% or so can get leukemia a few years later, but they say I'm old enough so that won't matter. |
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My BP runs fairly low - when I had my last infusion, I had been running around all over town, and when I got there I was flustered and 130/75.
After a while I dropped to 86/55 and alarms started going off becuase I had dropped suddenly. Then I had to explain that the first result was really high and the later one was 'my normal'. They kept asking me if I was OK and was my head feeling light or dizzy. No, that is just me. I think that pre MS I was just plain normal - I just look at it as a 'fringe benefit' these days (there has to be something good). Lyn |
My BP runs on the low end of normal. It shoots up when I exert myself. Sometimes when I see doc they take BP 2X. After walking into office my BP is a little higher than norm and they take it again towards the end of my exam to see if it has stabilized. I have always been in the normal range with BP. High BP runs in the family along with being overweight. That has lead me to lead a 75% healthy lifestyle. My oldest sister is only 5'2 and weighs close to 200 pounds. I bought her a xxl pajama set once and she couldn't fit it. I have a niece who lost 150 lbs. and is still plus size. I don't watch everything I eat but I am cognizant that the little things add up. If there is a health condition I can avoid, I'm going to take precautions. MS just makes me want to be healthier but I don't have the energy to.
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my BP runs now. im a 90/60 kinda girl. When they put me on migraine meds I dipped under 80/50 and passed out. They have me taking my BP every day for 30 days and I rarely go above 96/62. I did have my BP taken once and it was 157/100 but man o man I was in a lot of pain.
My pulse tends to run a bit high. Most folks are in the 60s at rest, but mine stays in the 80s. Most MDs comment that I have a high resting pulse rate. No one has given me any answers. All of my brothers and sister have high blood pressure. My mom, my dad, and aunts and cousins are all soaring. Mine, is too low! I have to pump my legs before i get up. I have to wait for it to rise before I start walking. |
Saw neuro yesterday-he took me off of zanaflex in case that is causing it. he doesn't feel it's MS related at all.
I showed him the notes of my BP the last week-his eyebrows shot through the ceiling. We'll see if going off of the muscle relaxant helps at all... |
Yes...chronic yo-yo blood pressure
A blood pressure spike of 230/160 is what led to my MS diagnosis. Just a few months ago it dropped to 68/45. I have been on/off BP meds since I was a teenager (in 40's now)..now it makes sense. Last 6 yrs I have had all these hospitalizations & test because BP like that has to be heart related....wrong. A year and a half ago they finally figured out my erratic BP and chronic insomnia (9 months of sleeping 2-3 hrs a night- no RLS or sleep apnea) was due to MS. My neurologist and family doctor said my symptoms were so atypical that is why it was missed all these years. I was just about to the point where I thought I was a hypochondriac. Had my normal family doctor not been on vacation and I followed up with the partner covering, I probably would never have been diagnosed properly. She took the time to listen and test, not just change a BP medication. Odd thing, she found it because the BP, after the previous week's spike, was 118/80 and I had been dizzy and I described words sliding together while reading- dizzy is usually low BP and headaches are high BP. I've never had a headache when my BP was stroke level, and when it is low I haven't been dizzy. One thing about MS is you can't compare yourself with others and you have to trust when your body is telling you that something is off.
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Saw my neuro the other day, and he convinced me to go back on one of the drugs that the cardiologist thought might be one of the causes of my problem...after talking to the neuro, I realized I ended up in the ER with problems even AFTER being taken off of this drug. So I'm back on it and hope it helps with some of the symptoms...my neuro does extensive research and clinical trials, and knows the meds and their contraindications, so I am trusting him.
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I hope it normalizes, Debbie. Doing some exercises (stretches and leg lifts if you can do them) on the bed might get some blood flowing.
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Just had my own bout with this. My BP has always run in the ideal range, but today, I went to my PCP for a normal checkup, and it was 70/50! After several people in the office took it over again, they sent me straight to the hospital to get it checked out. The hospital determined that all my tests looked normal and released me with no explanation.
So who knows why? Nobody said anything about MS causing it, but you have to wonder. If it can affect other autonomic functions, why not this? |
Hope your BP regulates soon. Can't say if it's MS related or not though since my family runs on the low side, I actually was concerned before my dx since it was running up in the 140s/80s. Though another thing to keep in mind is that it's not just the top number that means high or low BP. It's really the spread between those numbers. 120/80 is considered normal, the systolic pressure is 120 (contracting), and the diastolic pressure is 80 (resting). A "healthy" BP is when the contracting pressure is 1.5x greater than the resting pressure.
So for someone who exercises a lot, runs marathons and such a BP of say 80/60 is healthy (if my math is right :p) or even 45/30 could be "healthy" for that person and the amount of exercise and training they do. A low BP could also be 120/100, or a high BP of 120/60. What they're really looking at is how much blood is filling your heart when it's resting, versus how much pressure it is then exerting in sending that blood through your body. If your heart is flooding with blood in rest (diastolic pressure...bottom number) but barely exerting any pressure in contraction (systolic pressure... top number) then it is considered low. Conversely if your systolic pressure seems to be squeezing every last drop of blood from your heart, then your pressure is high. The 120/80 "rule" is really just an average of what middle-aged American's in fairly good health and shape were running back when they came up with the gauge, sort of like BMI taken from a simple height-weight chart, there are far too many factors to take into account for accuracy, but if the average person wants to check themselves for any potential problems, well there's a highly basic guideline they can look at. |
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My neuro says no, MS and BP aren't correlated. Doesn't make any sense to me that they would be.
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i hope you take your BP device with you to the dr. that way you can take the reading when they do and compare for accuracy.
hope the med helps you. |
Low Blood pressure
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I was diagnosed with PPM in March 2009. Normally (up to about six months ago) I had a blood pressure of about 115/75. The past few weeks it's been falling to 98/71 and a few days ago I had 95/66. According to a blood pressure chart I have seen, this is "normal", but it causes me even more unsteadiness and borderline faint sometimes. I don't know whether is Vertigo and am about to write to my neurologist about this. My family doctor said that they don't do anything about low blood pressure but I'm wondering whether that is really true. I wish all of us with low blood pressure, good luck in finding out what to do about this. Low pressure plus unsteadiness (and osteoporosis too) is NOT a good combination. Cheers Alexandra Olsson ______________________________ Quote:
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