Blood pressure and pacemakers

Hello peeps

I just had my pacemaker implanted to correct an issue with AV block.type B

I took my regular BP medicine today and am noticing that my BP is going very low, down to 100.  Could it be that there was a relation between my high BP and the AV block? And now that my heart is no longer missing beats, the medicine is over-correcting?

2 Comments

Blood Pressure

by The real Patch - 2018-04-10 18:41:40

BP of 100 systolic isn't particularly low. You might check with your Cardiologist as to what the goal is in your case. They try to keep mine around 90/60. The philosophy is to reduce the work load on your heart thereby allowing it to recover on it's own.

Interesting

by Martine - 2018-04-10 19:02:27

That's interesting.  Recover from what?

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