70 male , 4.8 cm ascending aneurysm, blood pressure

I’m 70 too. I’m on a blood pressure medication. My blood pressure runs about 120 to 140 each time I check it which is every morning. My lower number ranges around 75 to 95 at all times. My heart rate is between 95 and 98.
I don’t know what your heart rate is. Hopefully blood oxygen level and heart rate is good.
Heart rate for me is 95 to 98. Usually closest to the 98 number.

I have a nurse at my assisted living facility and she says my vitals are good and normal. My blood pressure gets taken and digitally saved on a laptop daily. My oxygen level and heart rate is once a month.

I had to go to the hospital for something else and my heart rate kept staying 98 to 100. While I was at the hospital it was being monitored by the nurses station.
Well, it started going up for no reason. I was laying in my hospital bed. It kept creeping up until it reached 148 which is almost a trip to the emergency room. My doctor suggested it. They were thinking of rolling me down to the ER.
It was getting more and more higher and they put a curtain up between me and the machine but I could hear the two nurses and the doctor.

They kept saying “come on, start lowering “ from the doctor and the nurses kept saying “oh my God” behind the curtain. I thought I was going to die.
Finally I don’t know what they did but it started dropping and nobody could explain what happened. To this day it’s been 3 months and I have not had anymore spikes. Mine was caught during a routine CT Scan for something else.

My Cardiologist wants my heart rate around 60. I have cut the meds in half that keep it low. I am starting to go too low. 42 at night time. And in the 40’s all night. My BP is 140/89. Which is higher than he wants.

Did he say 60 max or when resting? Mine is 50=60 at rest but when i walk 3 miles at 17 minute pace it gets in the low 80's. Mine told me not to exceed 100bpm when walking or other exercise.

I guess I should ask he never did say anything except he wants it in the 60’s.

I made the mistake of shoveling snow thinking I would be a few minutes and very light. Suddenly my heart rate was 170. I don’t mean to but am still a year later trying to learn and know my limits. I wish I could go back to being a normal 57 year old. But oh well. It is what it is

I was on bp meds for years. It was pretty well controlled but my bottom number was always high. I had read about honey for heart health so decided to start adding it to my coffee. I started to get super dizzy upon standing so started monitoring my bp a few times a day. I mentioned it to my primary doc, and although he was wary of the honey having anything to do with it, he he said I could try stopping the med as long as I continued to measure my bp regularly. That was a little over two years ago and I haven’t had to take the meds since. My bp is also much more consistent. My doc did some research on it and the med papers are out there with the benefit of honey on heart health. My cardiologist had heard of too, but never gave it much thought. He said they don’t get any education on alternative (?) treatment. It works for me. Also use only a wooden spoon for the honey, apparently contact with metal ruins some enzymes in the honey. I pray that it may benefit you as it has me if you decide to try it, and let your doc know.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7277934/

My cardio thoracic surgeon told me to jeep the top number under 130. if your doctor is not concerned or isn’t interested in keeping you below 130 I would seek a second opinion. I totally trust my doctor and I do what she says I take losartan and unless I’m stressed out my blood pressure stays around 110/70 I’m at 4.2 and I haven’t grown for the year that I’ve had it though I was stressed out in the beginning and my blood pressure kept spiking till like 180/110 and I thought I’m gonna kill myself… That can be a problem in addition to large spikes …so please get a second opinion

Do you have a bicupsid valve as well? Mine is 4.2 to 4.3 and I understand about the stress !! I had myself worried so bad that my blood pressure was climbing . When it’s normally very good !

I have a tricuspid valve. I stopped worrying. I did a lot of praying and realized that this is out of my control except to keep my blood pressure down and not be stressed out and hand it to God. So, I still think there’s certain things that you can do to keep your blood pressure below 130 and just try to breathe deeply someone in this support group told me when I was having so much stress and spiking my blood pressure that box breathing is very good. It’s kind of hard to do when you’re really really stressed out, but it makes your body go from fight and fight to rest and digest what you do, breathing through your nose slowly for five seconds hold your breath for five seconds and breathe out slowly for five seconds it lowers your heart rate it lowers your blood pressure and even if you have to go number two :-), doing the deep box breathing helps relax you so that you don’t strain and possibly raise your blood pressure temporarily by straining if you’re uncomfortable doing five seconds four, Because I don’t know what holding one’s breath has on raising one’s blood pressure if it’s a bicuspid valve?
I also walk a lot when I’m stressed out which helps bring everything into control. Saying prayers for you and hoping that you find peace with the situation and can keep your blood pressure low.

I appreciate the feed back! I definitely will try the slow deep breathing ! And as you said it’s out of our hands . But I definitely want to do everything within my power to change . I think being informed about what is happening helps me cope . A bit of knowledge feels like a bit of power . Here’s to some happy long lives!! 😊

Thank you
Will try