Subject: RE: Low blood pressure?? First off...definitely...talk to your doctor.
But don't get all worried and worked up about it before you do talk to your doc. 'Cause it's not necessarily "low" blood pressure.
Just a rapid drop in blood pressure can do that. And that can happen if you're running...running...running...and charging through the last couple hundred meters to the finish line....and then you cross it and come to a dead stop while they put a medal around your neck and they start pulling the chip off your ankle and you're standing there looking around for family and where the food's at.
It'll happen to me. I've waved off the medal hangers and chip removers on occasion to trot around in circles to let my heartrate drop at a less precipitous clip which can lead to all that. The old "cooldown" that you probably normally do when you're just out for a run/etc.
The other time's I've had this is in a race where I was really pushing it on the run and then started to flag late (because I don't really know what I'm doing )....and went from a really good pace for me, to almost walking. Same result. High heartrate, all the sudden becomes low heartrate and BP drops quickly.
That being said, still talk to your doctor, but at least evaluate the context of the possible potential rapid change of HR and BP that may be a part of the equation. Or may not. But it's rather common enough that if that's the case, that should be part of your discussion.
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