low blood pressure

Hello everyone
  Is low blood pressure a common issue with MS? My pressure is 90 over 70 and the Doc's do not seem concerned.

Hope everyone is coping well with the heat, our central air blew a fuse the other day and panic set in.LOL.

HARRY

[syndismilez]

Hi!
I am not Dx'd, but probable. I have very low blood pressure. It normally runs about 90/60. Even 70/50 when I am sick. Sometimes the nurse never gets a pulse!  Haha. I don't know if it is related to MS, although I think I read an article about it somewhere.  
I have had it most of my life. I have also been very active in exercise, and I am a completed mellow type of person!  So, I do know that it causes a lot of my dizziness when standing up from tieing my shoes!  My docs never seem concerned either, so I have never brought it up. Maybe someone else knows :)
Cyndi

[slightlybroken]

I'm not sure either but mine lately has runned very low. I use to run normal to low. When I was in the hospital I was running double digits like you. The nurses would always ask me if that was normal for me. Sometimes they would have to get an old blood pressure cuff out because they couldn't get it on the newer digital cuffs.

I think my medication had a lot to do with my blood pressure being low.

[debral09]

I have high blood pressure so I don't think that it is related.  I was dx with high blood pressure before being dx with MS.  My neuro never related the two so for me it seems the good ole gene pool is what the blood pressure is from.  I was dx with high blood pressure in my late 20's and now I am 31.  Dr's can't figure out why at such a young age I would have high blood pressure but they related it to genes!  Gotta love the family tree!!LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!  

Hope you are able to get it figured out and you may need to push the issue with your doc to get it resolved!

Best of health to you,
Debra

[Deb61]

I've researched this and can find a correlation, but there's not much information about MS and blood pressure.

I have high blood pressure (for the most part), but used to have problems with low blood pressure.  My blood pressure does fluctuate between low and high and wonder if autonomic nervous system dysfunction is part of the problem.

Here's a couple of web sites I've found with a correlation between autonomic nervous system dysfunction and MS:

http://www.healthsystem.virginia.edu/internet/neurogram/neurogram3_1_autonomic.cfm

http://www.anaesthetist.com/anaes/patient/Findex.htm#ans.htm

Deb

[Fluffysmom]

I had borderline high blood pressure several years ago, that I was able to get under control with diet, exercise, and dandelion root tea.  I continued working out and kept a healthy BP and heartrate.

Since my symptoms started with a vengeance in February, I haven't been able to exercise much, and was afraid my BP would go up.  Instead, it is steadily dropping; last doctor's visit it was 100/62.  I feel like they are connected, but I am undiagnosed, so I'm not sure what my input is worth.

Just be careful about standing up too fast!  That is all that concerns my doc; that I will pass out or at least lose my balance because of it taking to long for the blood to get to my brain.

I think I'll go check out Deb's websites.

Stay cool!

Kathy

[AMO]

hi harry,

i hope you are  feeeling well today.

II wonder if you have symptoms  from low b.p.?
Iiiif you ar enot, then that would   be posssible why your doctors   is not  concerned.

do you feel you may be orthostatic hypotenion(significannt drop in b.p. on standing))  as well?
symptoms of that could be lighteadness, near or fainting.

I could not help notice  in your photo file the edema on your feet. I wish i could rememebr your histiry of that. Dot hey feel a connection in some way?

here is some reading on low b.p......

http://www.medicinenet.com/low_blood_pressure/article.htm

take care , amo

[HARRYBEADS]

Thanks for your views, it's hard to tell whats up any more with all these meds, every specialist gives me at least two pills. My family Doctor is not concerned about the low pressure, he said it's better than high pressure if you don't feel faint from exercise.

Tommorrow I get blood drawn to see if the Hep C is gone for good, I will find out in early August. I hope they can get blood but not to much.

Harry