Not been doing too bad these past two days, but today i got in the house and sat down.  Then i got up to do something and felt my normal dizziness and stupidly thought oh i'll check my bp i haven't done it all day.  So i sat down and took it and it was 109/51!!!  I had had some dinner so my pulse was nice and high anyway from a full stomach, but this diastolic bp really scared me.  I started to panic and sweat and of course my pulse went up even more, which i was not scared about at all i was so terrified of passing out!  Of course, feeling so scared that the dizziness got worse and worse and then i spent the next half an hour taking my bp to make sure that it wouldn't go that low again.  It didn't go that low again, just in the 60's which i am fine with.  Why did my bp so down so very low, it has never been that low before only down to 54 diastolic and that was after having a bath which i have heard is normal.  This has really frightened me and after this i was even too scared to get out of my chair!  I was warm, dont know if that made any difference, but i have been hot before and it didn't matter.  I am a thinker, unfortunately, and i always need reassurance and an explaination and i need to know why this happened, if it is serious and really as scary as i believe it is and if it will happen again.  I am really scared by this, please help.  Has anyone had a lower bp than this and been ok, should i be scared or am i ok?

Okay, well first of all you can relax. As I've stated before, blood pressure is a very dynamic process and depending upon when you check it, the readings can vary greatly. Some people fear that their pressure can just continue to drop until non-existent and this is simply a false assumption.

You have to realize that you've decided that the reading indicates something is wrong simply because it doesn't appear to be normal for you. This is a misconception. I've seen plenty of folks with similar readings, particularly women, and there is nothing to indicate that it represents pathology of any kind. When your pressure is in this range, it can cause orthostatic responses when you stand too quickly, but this does not indicate that anything is wrong.

Depending upon the medications you are taking, this could have an effect on your blood pressure.

Again, I do not see anything here that would suggest a problem, but if you feel it warrants evaluation then by all means present yourself to your primary care physician. It is also important that you check your blood pressure only at one or two intervals per day and absolutely at the same time each day, after having sat down and relaxed for at least 15 minutes. This will provide you with a more accurate assessment of your average blood pressure.

Take a breath and relax. You're going to be just fine.

Best regards and Good Health

My bp is normally in the 60's or 70's and has never been that low before anyway.  I have been worrying about this now since it happened as it has really scared me a lot.  
I have taken it again today and it has been fine, but i have taken it again now and it is 104/57.  I took it again and it was ok but when i took it again after that, like i say really freaked by this, it was 109/59.  I am sitting and have been for a little while but it never normally goes down that low.  However, when i move about or get up and sit down and take it again it has come up.  
Do you think it is because i might be a little more relaxed than normal or do you think that i have something to worry about, i am really scared by this.  Sorry to go on about it, just really concerned.

Thanks bead, it has really worried me.  But i am only getting these readings when i am sitting.  Although i am so scared by them that i have been taking my bp all the time since it happened.  Been going more lightheaded and fuzzy than usual and i do my bp and it is fine so i think it is all in my mind and probably from my neck.  I have been cleaning and tidying up today so it isn't because i am less active, but it could be because i was nice and warm and i might have been a bit more relaxed, body wise that is, still very anxious, depressed and panicky.  My pulse was in the 80's when my bp was in the 50's so i don't suppose i should be scared, but i can't help it.  When i was picking my son up from school i was convinced i was going to pass out, anxiety i know, but because of these readings it has made me worse, just keep thinking i will pass out and die.  And the overwhelming fear that i just cannot cope with it.  I know that i should be grateful of having a low resting bp perhaps, but it really just scares the hell out of me.  I am much happier with my 'normal' readings of in the 60's or 70's.  I think i would be ok if i had an explaination for it, but i don't and i don't feel that this is normal for me, but i keep reading back what RLR put and a site i found that says that a normal bp ranges FROM 90/50.  I keep hoping that it will make me feel better but unfortunately because of all my mental problems i think, i just cannot accept it.  I have been doing my bp whilst standing up and it is fine, in the 70's and pulse in the 100's which i have accepted as normal, and i have stood up quick and done it and it is the same.  So obviously my bp is not dropping when i stand up or when i am standing up even though i get the dizziness and fuzzy pressure filled head.  I have only had the low readings when i have been sitting down so i suppose that is acceptable isn't it?  Since i had that operation and developed PTSD i have had this terrible fear of fainting and with everything that i have been through recently and of course now these readings, i think my fear is turning into a phobia and i am finding it increasingly difficult just to leave the house now through the total fear and feeings of not coping.  I know that you have had low bp readings and have actually passed out bead so i really appreciate you talking to me and helping me through this.xx

Thankyou so much bead!!
I know i am not alone, but sure feels like it don't it?
It is terrifying and i am getting to the stage where i just don't want to go through the front door as i think i am going to collapse, faint and die.  I haven't felt this bad in a long time but i think the anxiety of these low readings are in my mind and i can't get rid of them.  I have to leave the house but i am in such a state when i do.  I know this is my mental condition and probably nothing more but even trying to think that doesn't help.
I have 'nearly' fainted on a few occasions.  My earliest was when i was very little and i have the flu.  My mum took me to the doctors and she had her gas fire full on in her room and as i was sitting on my mum's knee i remember saying that i didn't feel very well and they promptly ushered me through the door, put my head between my knees and bought me some lucozade!
Then again i remember feeling 'funny' again when carrying my second child a couple of times and i had to sit down, but then i was fine again.
Then when i had my c. section over my third child, the spinal block made my bp plummet and they had to squeeze three bags of fluid in my I.V and then i felt fine again.  Of course i didn't get PTSD or anything after that because, i think, i was so pre-occupied with my new baby.
Then when i had my operation three years ago and the injections, they used about three or four, made my bp plummet again.  They threw me back in the chair and i came round a bit and then straight after it happened again.  Then happened again when i was going to the car and then again in the car.  So obviously because i happened more than twice, which is what people say, my body learnt this feeling and i developed PTSD from it.  So since then i have been scared of fainting but now i have had those three low readings i just can't forget it and it has become more scary to me.  I am trying to teach my body that when i feel a 'wave' come over me, where i think i will faint, that it is anxiety and panic and my bp will have gone up rather than gone down.  But i remember having this 'funny' wave of feeling come over me lots when i was at work and i used to bend down and pretend to pull my sock up or scratch my leg.  This was the same feeling, but what i really think it was was a wave of fear sweeping over me when in fact my bp would not have droppped at all.  But still scares the hell out of me as i don't like the feeling and it just reminds me of the op.  The other thing is what we say to ourselves, just thinking 'i don't feel very well', makes me go funny as this was the phrase that i used through both my op's.  I know this is silly but my body automatically goes into a panic if i just think this, but i also understand that this is normal.  I can feel a panic coming on now by just typing that!!
If i say it i think i am just going to collapse, faint and die right there and then and if i just think it, i feel so very ill and think 'this is it'!
I have bought myself a new outfit and i have had my nails done, i thought this might make me feel better, but it hasn't.
I just feel so bad at the moment, i think i have felt this bad before so i must have been improving before.  But obviously with losing my dad it has knocked me back, which i know is only natural.  But i think it is the rest of it that is keeping my anxiety so high, even though i don't feel like my anxiety is high, just feel so ill and am going to die at any moment.
I find it really hard to be near my mum and to go to the house.  Even just seeing his car is terrible.  I cannot look at his picture and mum has been sorting things out in the house and gives us things, that is very hard to.  Thoughts of how things used to be and how he was and what he did, even thinking that he would have been the last person to touch that, you know what i mean, very, very hard.  I know this is all natural and things are supposed to get better, but i can't see that far ahead.  Can't even see tomorrow as each day passes.  I can't look forward to anything and feel like my life is over.  I used to think that i would be too chicken to 'do anything' silly and i love my family too much anyway, but when you are feeling so very ill and so very scared, even those thoughts have entered my head on a regular basis now.   hate all the symptoms that we get and what it does to our bodies.  This morning i was getting the 'old' feelings of feeling so very ill, impending doom, terror and could feel the panic start to well up in me, the cold chills down my neck, shoulders and back.  The feeling 'funny' and not right, the unreality etc, etc.  I feel no hope at all times and find even getting out of the chair to be so very hard and frightening, this is no life at all.  Sorry to go on bead, i know i am not alone in this and i really appreciate the help you are giving me.xx

I really do appreciate you talking to me bead, i know you understand!
Yes, my brain has got this weird 'bug' and it won't let go and it is really driving me even more mad.  I do still have panic attacks also, but they are normally the reaction to a sensation or feeling more often than not.  I do get them for no reason what so ever but more rarely.  Normally it is the dizziness, fear of fainting, or unreality, fear of going mad, strange feelings that bring on the panic.  
I went to Morrisons with my hubby after i emailed you and it was awful!!!!
I managed to do the shopping but my legs were like jelly and i was shaking all over, haven't been like that for a while.  When i got to the meat section, just looking at the meat and hearing the butcher with his saw turned my stomach and i felt so sick i had to move away, i was so scared of fainting as the dizziness and unreality was bad too.  Is it normal to become so 'tickled stomached' too, i was never like that before, had a stomach of iron!  Now i am so sensitive to anything at all my stomach goes and i feel sick a lot of the time too.  I checked my bp when i got back to the car and it was fine.  It doesn't help when you feel so cloudy and spaced out too, that makes you think there is a problem with your bp anyway!
I have a mobile and if you want my number just let me know and i will pm it to you.
Thanks again beade, much appreciate you listening, reading, me moaning like this.x