Primary complaints that I suspect are associated with it is lethargy and occasional chest pain.
The latter is more concerning and becomes more noticeable the lower the BP.
Also, in light of articles like the below, I believe low blood pressure should be more alarming than it is.
Ever doctor I've seen has praised my impressive blood pressure rating (no white coat effect here).
http://www.hindawi.c...hy/2013/178780/
My reply was to try to reassure you. But if you have bad symptoms from low diastolic pressure, then of course you should be concerned. In my case, I have few symptoms--just a tendency to cold in the peripheries and the very occasional swimmy sleep, which I treat effectively with a couple of scoops of salt and gelatin mix that I keep in the bathroom.
As you can imagine, I have read a lot about this, and I have been cheered by the suggestion that if I feel normal then low diastolic pressure is nothing to worry about. You are worrying that low diastolic pressure gives you a greater risk for heart problems, because of what you read in that paper and others. My advice first of all would be to start reading papers that identify certain foodstuffs and activities with reducing mortality from heart disease. Each time you take a measure recommended in those sources you will reduce your risk, and very soon you should outbalance your low diastolic risk. If in fact your low diastolic blood pressure is associated with a potential heart issue, I am sure that such measures would raise it in the process of lowering your heart risks in general. If you follow heart-healthy practices such as exercise and healthy diet, I suspect your chest pains will go away, easing your worries.
Another reassuring thing I have often read is that systolic blood pressure is more significant for health. You have raised yours to a healthy level, and I am not surprised the doctors are praising you on that side. The two forms of blood pressure represent the way the heart pumps in and out, and so they are intimately connected.
I still say, however, that home readings are not to be relied on. The machines are not the best, and we are in a much more chilled state when we take them than we are when out in the real world. The bigger part we take in the hurly burly of every day life, the higher our blood pressure goes. Time spent at home brings the blood pressure right down.
Edited by Gerrans, 02 September 2014 - 08:47 AM.