Hey, it's Rowan again. The floating chevron thing before my eyes passed, but I wanted to report my 3 p.m. reading on the blood pressure monitor that just got delivered.

It was 94/62, with a pulse of 69. There's a function on the monitor that shows if it detects iregular heartbeat, and it didn't detect irregular heartbeat, but I read somewhere on this forum that one wants the blood pressure not to go under 90/60. Or it said something like, "I should think any reading not below 90/60 would be all right". I'm only on Day 3! I have an idea (perhaps erroneous) that as the fast goes on the blood pressure would continue to drop, and it doesn't have far to go to get under 90/60 - however, maybe it will stay like this, I don't know. I have not yet been feeling very weak, so I have been relatively active - not going for a real walk, for instance, but definitely bopping out to the mailbox for a nice breath of fresh air (the mailbox here is not a minute's walk from the front door), and pretty much being at Kitties' beck and call. I'm not sure how I could be LESS active, unless it would be to not go out for the mail and not go online and all that "deep do-nothing fasting" sort of thing. I raise this issue because famous (or semi-famous) Natural Hygiene fasting director Frank Sabatino told me over the phone that my having (pre-fast) low BP didn't mean I could not do an extended fast (as two other fasting directors have told me); it just meant I should have total rest and do absolutely nothing and stay in bed the whole time. (Which is to say, I'd have to go to a clinic - his clinic - where they bring you your water in bed.)

I don't know whether he meant that if I did not totally rest, my blood pressure would go too low, dangerously low, during the fast; or whether he just meant that, with low blood pressure, to move around and do things would be very challenging and cause me dizziness and faintness if I didn't move very carefully and slowly. We all know that during a fast everybody can get low blood pressure, which is why we are often advised to get up from a sitting or lying position very slowly and cautiously. So does mine mean I just have to be more carefulall the time, with all movements?

That would be difficult enough to remember. I KNOW that one is supposed to get up slowly, perhaps especially during the first days (I just read here on Curezone a faster saying that), but wilfully and foolishly I still have been disregarding it - well, not disregarding it, but not being cautious enough to remember it every time.

I think I will only start to worry about the BP when it does dip below 90/60 - if it ever does - at which point I will first put the matter before my Curezone fasting colleagues and then, if advised to stop the fast, at least try to go into a green juice fast - maybe by that time I will not react so violently to juices.

So hopefully that contingency won't even arise for another week or so!

Sorry to be boring - I just thought that someday someone with low blood pressure might really want/need to fast and would be frustrated with all the information on fasting with HIGH blood pressure; there is no online information that I can find about fasting when you have, going into it, low blood pressure.

Thanks, everyone.

Rowan