I should have known it. Been eating too much salty stuff over the break. Now the BP confirms it (I’ve always been in the healthy range before - below 120/80).
How do I come down? Is it as easy as eating less salt?
Loosen your speedo as well. 
It is a bitch when you are fit, not overweight, watch your diet and still have this problem. I have been borderline for about 10 years but have resisted medication. I think I’m finally going to have to cave in. It’s genetic for me and most people. My family passed this on to me and there doesn’t seem to be much I can do to control it. Your numbers are borderline but something to keep an eye on if you are young.
Mine went from 140/95 to a normal 125/85 in a matter of a couple months with some supplementation of bonita extract. YMMV.
A good friend of mine is in that category. He got diagnosed two years ago, went on medication, got his BP under control, but then his athletic performances started suffering (difficulty breathing, tightness of the chest, dying horrible deaths on long runs). He’s blaming it on the med. Ain’t life a bitch?
Good luck '83.
Details? Thanks.
I lowered mine just by switching to GEICO 
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Ha! I wish.
Me too. I’ve known about it for 5 years and not done too much except eat less salt (no more canned soup or Pasta Roni) I bought a cuff last year and measure it a lot and it sure varies: A.M. is 120s/75 … At work I am around 145/90 all day (I’m a teacher) … PM and after workouts its usually 135/80. Start with diet. Amazing how meals can affect you: Mexican food = bad … Fish = good. Soy & dairy = good … I’m taking my results to my doc. at my next physical. From what I have read mild diurectics should be tried before the hardcore alpha & beta stuff.
Well, it’s a NutriLite product that goes by the name of Circulatory Health that has it’s active ingredient as Bonita extract (or it might be a variation of “extract”). Basically a fish peptide, I think. The NutriLite website might be able to give you more info. No, I’m not trying to push and Quixtar/Amway BS, it’s just a product that worked for me.
I used to eat real salty. All of a sudden salty meals (especially restaurant meals) don’t go over very well with the taste buds anymore. Time to watch it I guess.
Take it again every morning when you wake up over a few days. If it was always normal in the past it may be an anomoly. Stress, caffiene, other non-recommended pharmaceuticals and combinations of such can spike your pressure. If you are consistently higher on your diastolic pressure over the next few days then go see a few doctors to get some opinions. The first and usually higher number(systolic-contracting pressure) fluctuates all the time and can only be reliably taken at rest in the morning before eating or exercising. Your diastolic pressure (residual blood pressure between beats) is much less likely to fluctuate and that 92 is something to keep an eye on if it stays there over the next few days. I took an EMT class with a Pro Triathlete that had high blood pressure and high cholesterol. There is no telling what his numbers would have been if he had not been an endurance athlete since the age of 12 and eaten a very healthy diet most of his life. Genetics suck sometimes, then again genetics gave him gifts to be an all american swimmer which paid for his education and managed to eke out a living training and racing for nearly a decade. Tradeoffs.
Nordic skiing in Colorado will help with the BP. You can’t help be relaxed when you are lying in a heap in a snowbank!
Good points Hookem. I’ll take more data points.
Try the D.a.s.h. diet. National heart blood lung institute.
My wife used it to get off meds.
good luck Thom
My BP is “generically” high; under control with medication. If you do have to go the medication route make sure you advise the doc of your multi-sport activity. Some drugs are better than others; in my case I just do not take it (Cozaar) for 48 hours before an event (with the docs OK).
Might it be “white coat syndrome”?
Try the D.a.s.h. diet. National heart blood lung institute.
My wife used it to get off meds.
good luck Thom
Checked it out on the web. At first glance it seems very resonable (the usual healthy stuff). The thing is I’ve been eating that way for a long time.
Could it be that a couple weeks of out of control eating (I consider restaurant fare out of control eating) is what sent the BP out of the healthy range?
BUENA PARK, Calif., Dec. 10, 2001 –The heart pumps more than 100,000 beats per day, moving your blood through 90,000 miles of vessels, so it’s no wonder your circulatory system could use a little help to function properly.
NUTRILITE® Circulatory Health is a new dietary supplement designed to help keep your circulatory system on track. The exclusive formula contains oligopeptide, a special fish peptide that helps keep blood vessels strong. Made from bonito, a fish in the tuna and mackerel family that contains highly concentrated oligopeptide, Circulatory Health is especially for people who have been told to adjust their diet and exercise for the benefit of their circulatory system.
My BP is “generically” high; under control with medication. If you do have to go the medication route make sure you advise the doc of your multi-sport activity. Some drugs are better than others; in my case I just do not take it (Cozaar) for 48 hours before an event (with the docs OK).
Interesting that you also found a link between the med and sports performance. Here’s what my friend Claude Winter wrote a while back on ST:
"For the past year and a half I have struggled mainly on my runs with breathing issues and shoulder tightness. I was diagnosed with high blood pressure about that same time and went on meds. I never thought to tie the two together so for a year I spent time having almost every test you can have to find out why I was having breathing problems and getting so tight. No one could figure it out, so I asked my doctor could the meds have side affects and he said he doubted it. I guess most people on meds for high blood pressure are not athletes. Mine was hereditary.
Anyway I decided one day to do my own test and went off my meds. After a few days I had no more symptoms. I was back to my old self. I was very happy. As I kept monitoring my pressure, however it crept back up high. So I went to my doctor and he did tell me that sometimes those certain types of drugs can cause asthma type symptoms. He put me on a new calcium channel blocker and I had no problems but my pressure was still high, so he has me now on a calcium channel blocker plus ace inhibitor combination.
Well now I am back to having the same problems. I am not sure what to do and was wondering if anyone out there has had similiar issues and have found a drug that works for blood pressure with no other side effects while training. Thanks for any help"
He would be interested in talking to you. I told him to check out this thread. I hope you and he can compare notes.