Low Blood Pressure :/

I've always had low blood pressure. It's generally around 95/60-65. Heart rate around 70-75.

This is causing me a relentless fatigue, and I find it very hard to do things. Just sitting on my desk and concentrating on something is hard to do.

It always gets much worse after I eat a meal.

I don't understand why this is happening.

I'm not dehydrated (drink more than 3 liters per day), no anemia, eat enough salt (tried eating even more, nothing changed), no thyroid problems, no diarrhea, no stress, no active inflammation, vitamin-mineral levels are fine, living in a stable environment, getting enough sleep...

I'm so frustrated with this!

Do you have any suggestions? I'm open to any idea...

Thanks.

Do you drink coffee? Tea?

How are your glucose levels?

I would be comatose if my bp was that low....lol.
q

Maybe drink coffee or tea....
Have you had adrenals tested....cortisol?

q

Are you extremely fit? Underweight/anorexic? On any medication with low blood pressure as a side-effect? Any other symptoms such as nausea or dizziness?

Since you mention low blood pressure after eating, there's this from the NHS website.

Low blood pressure after eating
If you experience symptoms after eating, it's known as postprandial hypotension. It occurs more often in older people, particularly in those who have high blood pressure or conditions such as Parkinson's disease and diabetes mellitus.
After a meal, your intestines need a large amount of blood for digestion. If your heart rate doesn't increase enough to maintain blood pressure, your blood pressure will fall, causing symptoms.

If none of that applies to you, then you probably just have naturally low blood pressure and it's nothing to worry about, medically. You've already ruled out heart issues.

Sorry to butt in here, but NCOT thanks for posting that.

Very eye-opening for me. I think this applied to my recently deceased (elderly) mother-in-law. I know she had issues with her blood pressure. I am going to ask my husband if it was low blood pressure. She would always go lay down after eating a meal. She passed away a week and a half ago. She ate breakfast, sat down on the sofa, and appeared to doze off. Never woke up. I was mystified but maybe your article explains it.

Oh that's interesting NCOT. Let me know what you discover. We have inherited one of mom's home blood pressure machines so I could experiment too... well not that I have noticed that issue myself where I feel worse after dinner (unless I overeat gobs of junk food, obviously!).

I have low blood pressure like that too. My "normal" is usually about 110/70. But its worse in the mornings. Often the machines will kick me off or keep resetting because it reads so low. When I was in the hospital and they'd wake me up in the mornings for bp they'd usually have to make me sit up and shake my arms around or else it'd be so low they'd have to raise the alarm! No one ever mentioned it as Ia really bad thing. But I do tire easily and always have. And I run slightly anemic too.

I don't think most people do. Certainly no one in my family is like that; we eat out a restaurant and they get even louder and shriekier after they've eaten (and drunk plenty of wine), whereas all I want to do is go and lie down.

Maybe it's more normal after a gigantic meal e.g. on Christmas Day. But you shouldn't be knackered after eating a normal sized meal. I never used[/i[ to be - it all started some time after I got diagnosed with Crohn's. Incidentally, my BP seems to run around the 110 mark as well, going from the tests I get at my Entyvio infusions.