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The mysterious "132/86" I texted earlier to LJ happens to be my blood pressure. :D I never remember to ask while in the doctor's office, and they never volunteer it, so when I spied it on my chart I needed a place to write it down and remember. :)

Looking up online, and assuming I don't have white-coat hypertension, which my mom has and which can send your BP soaring in the doctor's office, it looks like that's officially pre-hypertension. As my mom and her dad both had high blood pressure, and as I recently ran across studies that show migraineurs tend to suffer disproportionately from stroke, you can probably figure out how I'm eyeing that number.

At any rate, if I get my butt out of the two-or-so-days-a-week biking that it's fallen into and back into the 6 or 7 days a week habit that I used to have, that ought to help it a bit.

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I would kill for that number. I would. :/

I know a lot of people would. And they'd kill me for my cholesterol level, too. XD I got the good end of the genetic stick there.

But I am concerned that I *don't* go higher, given my family history.

Just sitting here on my ass my BP was like 137/87 I think. I probably need to have my meds reevalved after Aidan's surprise clusterfuck on my BP when he was born.

I still kind of mourn it. High BP isn't exactly common in my family and it was beautiful before I had Ryan. I should say before I got /pregnant/ with Ryan. And then it didn't go away. *cry* I became a statistic! (They say roughly half of all women who get prenatal hypertension get stuck with it after they have teh baby. sadface :()

Mine is usually good, although I've had days when it was high in the doctor's office. Friday it was 110/80, which was much better than my previous visit. Of course, I'd been in a lot of pain my previous doctor's visit, so that must've made the difference.

I know I need to get my cholesterol checked, but I'm scared to.

I have great blood pressure, kinda, ranging from 100/60 to 80/60 to...100/30 = TOO LOW. They got that last reading 2 or 3 times in a row, and I would say their machine was borked except it seemed to work fine for the folks ahead of me in line...I have no idea what was up. I have good cholesterol levels, too. Low BP runs on both sides of my family and I suspect low cholesterol levels do too.'

OTOH, I probably got this bipolar thing from someone and it is frankly far more likely to kill me early than BP or cholesterol would hypothetically be likely to if I had problems in that area, so...

Oh man I have been really bad about biking this week too. I need to get back to doing it every day. I think you should go back to posting it. (Or where are you keeping track of the miles now?)I had been using Zelky on facebook, but it tends to have a dead server a lot and I noticed when I don't post and see my progress is when I tend to not exercise at all.

I haven't been keeping track of it officially, but I've been transferring $5 into my Trip Fund every time I get on the bike for at least 20 minutes. :D (No hard-and-fast plans for where the next trip is going to be, but starting to save now. XD)

Ooooo that sounds good!

Don't have a whole lot in there right now, as I only started recently and then got sidelined with the plague, but last night I got back on. XD

That is pretty much what happened to me too. Good luck with saving some money. I am actually biking while checking my internet right now, bwaha ha

Don't know my numbers at the moment, but I'm on the low end of normal. This doesn't couple well with being tall, as I've found out on occasion. If I take a long step down too quickly, my eyesight goes completely white for a couple seconds. My brother (in a similar boat as me on BP and height) stood up after watching a movie and immediately stretched his arms over his head... and promptly passed out, hit his head on the floor, and got a minor concussion. Yeesh.

I'm not totally convinced about the "pre-hypertension" category, which was an edition only ... the past decade? Not sure how realistic it is to expect everyone to be 120/80 or lower, when 120/80 used to be a sort of ideal, and anything under 140/90 to be more or less okay. Of course, I haven't done the research on this, either ...

Yeah, if it were just the numbers I'd not worry too much, but I've got family history of HBP *and* the migraines to contend with, so it's certainly worth keeping an eye on them.

Yeah, family history and genetics change everything. (Looks sideways at cholesterol numbers higher than those of folks eating far worse than me ...)

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