Blood pressure after meal

med jersi...With all due respect, I feel you are falling into the trap of worrying about something when there's no reason. Blood pressure fluctuates throughout the day. It can be say 120/80 one minute then 134/82 just a few moments later. This is completely NORMAL. 

It is also known that bp rises when we eat. You say upon rising your bp is 115/69, then you have your coffee, go to work, then it's 128/80 until lunch time. Wherein lies the problem!!!????? Again, after lunch you're at 150/95..after eating. 

Go with the second Dr. YOU DO NOT NEED MEDICATION. You'd be doing yourself a gigantic favour by not taking your readings so often. You didn't state your age either. Believe me...you are the envy of a lot of people.

Enjoy life..it's far too short.

Before you take any medication, ask for an ambulatory blood pressure monitor. You can generally get this from your GP, but they'll refer you on if they can't provide one.

The ABPM will record your blood pressure every 30 minutes while you're active, and every hour when you're asleep, and will give your GP a better idea of how your BP behaves throughout the day.

Personally, I don't think you need medication for it, as most of those are normal to low readings.

Blood pressure is supposed to go up and down throughout the day, so readings of 160/100 are fine as long as they don't stay that high.

I see a cardiology professor, with 40 years of experience, who was called upon to write the blood pressure directives for the EU. He's British, but also lectures at Yale university, so I think he knows his stuff.

He'd have incredibly strong words with the doctor who thinks you need medication!

However, to remove all doubt, ask the doctor who thinks your blood pressure is too high for 24 hour ambulatory blood pressure monitor.

I agree with the others that you shouldn't need medicine. For one thing, with your blood pressure being normal so much of the time, and even low while you're sleeping, the medicine would take it even lower. It would seem that the low blood pressure would go to an unsafe level, at least it seems that way to me.

You don't say what you do for work. Most work has some kind of stress in it, which could account for why your blood pressure is a little higher after lunch. Also, you don't say if you are eating at a restaurant or bringing your own food. If you are eating out, that could account for the rise. Most restaurant foods have a high amount of sodium in them. You might want to check the menu at home to see how much sodium is in each dish, and pick the ones that have a lesser amount. Or just eat half of what is served. The fact that your blood pressure goes down during the rest of the day shows that your body is working to keep it normal. Maybe add a bit of water to help clear out some of any extra sodium. 

In my opinion, stick with the doctor that doesn't think you need the medicine. And stop worrying about it so much! 

I agree with Mike, BP fluctuates throughout the day. Your worrying too much. I used to worry myself about my BP until I realised that it’s all a farce, the pharmaceutical companies are making Billions of pounds on us taking meds for High BP. There’s scaremongering tactics being used to make us think we’re all prone to strokes and heart attacks unless we can’t keep our Bp down. The simple fact is that it increases with age, this is normal. It’s not normal for a 60 year old to be getting readings of 120/80, unless their from another planet, ie alien 👽.