Where are the limits?

I was always interested in limit values of the BP. In one occasion, a GP, who came to visit my ill father, said: "I do not understand how this man can live with the BP 90/60!" For a long time, I considered it a lower limit for BP. A few days ago, a lady in AF forum has written:

"By the evening of the 14th I was in agony, in so much pain that I collapsed. My BP was 42/ 34 and my poor husband called an ambulance." After the ablation done, she had a damage on a blood vessel, so was bleeding inside and loosing blood. She has survived!

As for the upper limit, someone has mentioned 400/200 when having the sex. The values are under the question mark, since they are so "round" and may have been quoted just to show that BP goes very high when "exercising".

My uncle died aged 67, after three strokes in the same day, at the BP 270/170. Young ones would stand such high BP without problems, since their blood vessels are in better condition.

A woman, in AF forum, has recently quoted a value 220/120. Personally, I never measured above 190/120, so really was interested to know how high people can go, and return to normal...

Do you remember values which could be considered interesting?

[Madlegs1]

There does be great debate on here about the optimal value for BP, and different ones for various ages.

No real clarity on the ideal range.

I suppose I'll die wondering?😍

[lettingoffsteam]

Mine was 244/133 when I was diagnosed but nice and low now after a big weight loss, diet change, exercise and some meds.

[Hidden in reply to lettingoffsteam]

Wow! Thank you for the data! Good to know how high it can be. Personally, I never heard of such a high value until now (my uncle's case is a dead one, lol), what doesn't mean that it is not possible to go even higher, in young persons, with good blood vessels. I also look at the limit values for Heart Rate. Some people have reported as high as 300 bpm. Jesus, it is 5 cycles per one second! It is critically high, since there is no time to fill the ventricles with the blood, so blood flow-rate goes very low and people feel like living dead, lol!

My congratulations - you are the first person I met in 10 years in these NHS forums, to have lost the weight (I suppose radically). For some to me unknown reason, people in USA and in UK are overweight in exactly the same percent - 67%. The only way I can understand it, is that in every population with high living standard, where people can eat for the pure pleasure, there are 33% of slim ones, which genetically can not get fat. The rest succeeds in collecting fat... I am 70, with the stabile weight for the past 45 years - 72 kg and benefit from it largely!

Best wishes! P.