thread: Coping with low blood pressure

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  1. #1
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    Sep 2007
    Brisbane
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    Tegan, I've got the same problem. My BP was 105/55 and then 100/55. It makes me feel light headed and sometimes car sick, and combined with morning sickness it sucks! I just try to keep up my sugars, drink lots of water, and stand up slowly so I don't topple over. It must be hard chasing after the kids!

  2. #2
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    Nov 2008
    Perth
    16

    I always have low blood pressure, usually around 100/60 not pregnant. Mine has been shockingly low so far down to 80/50 last week.

    I do what others have suggested, take it easy standing, make sure I eat and drink regularly. I do have to be careful when I am out though because I automatically want to drink less (the pee factor!) and I feel quite ill if I do.

    As you said it is much better to be on the low side than the high side. But I wish mine were more in the middle

  3. #3
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    Jan 2011
    Stockholm
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    Re: Coping with low blood pressure

    wowsers - 80/50 - you take the cake happyMess.

    Mine is around 90/60, but I have never really felt the ill-effects of low BP (except for when I fainted once during my first pregnancy).

    but I'm monitoring this thread with interest.