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Between 86/60 - 110/70, if I am stressed it's like 120/90.
This is interesting. Pardon me if I use you as an example. My BP was always in your lower range, and doctors were always telling me I needed to get it up, that it was too low. One healthcare provider even thought there was something wrong with his BP device when he got something like 75/65 or so. But the last few years I've been reading, that the new norm, or the new ideal, is exactly in that range. They're finding that what they used to take as normal/healthy, which was in your upper range, with the top of the "healthy" range being around 120/85 or so, is no longer considered healthy. It's considered too high. They're recommending that one's daily average be below 3-digits for the top value. They're also now saying, which always seemed like common sense to me, that to get an accurate picture of your BP, you need to measure it throughout the day, then average the readings, to determine if you're in the (new) healthy range.
I'm posting this, because I don't know if people are aware, that the standards have changed. I've been paying attention, becuase most of my life I was told my BP was way too low to be healthy, lol. Now what was formerly considered dangerously low is the new healthy goal. (If your doctor hasn't mentioned this, it's because not all docs are on board with the new standard yet.) It reminds me of the flip-flopping that went on in the medical community over cholesterol.
if I sit down and take my blood pressure, it is usually 135/90. If I relax, wait a few minutes and take it again, it is usually 110/70-75. So, I suppose it is 110/72 or so, but I know for a fact it is not always recorded that way in my medical history.
This is the amazing thing. Your first reading is diagnosed as stage 1 hypertension. Your second reading is diagnosed as extremely optimal. It's amusing how two vastly different outcomes can be gauged in a span of a few minutes.
Yes, I am amazed at people who report their blood pressure as an exact number. It changes all the time. I the past few years, I have tested at 90/59 (after resting for hours on my back in the hospital) to 167/95 during a panic attack at my oncologist’s office (worried about scan results I was about to get; worried about urgent eye surgery I was having the next morning; worried about Covid as I was waiting for literally hours in an overcrowded waiting room; frustration that I was waiting for hours in the waiting room for my results combined with wearing a home-made mask that was most definitely not breathable) I was literally hyperventilating, shaking and gasping for breath when then finally saw me to take my blood pressure. At home, if I sit down and take my blood pressure, it is usually 135/90. If I relax, wait a few minutes and take it again, it is usually 110/70-75. So, I suppose it is 110/72 or so, but I know for a fact it is not always recorded that way in my medical history.
Why surprised? I just reported my last reading. Of course it moves around...do you want the absolute lowest to the absolute highest? For the last year, 5 years, 10 years?
Over the last 20 years my highest has been 126/78 and my lowest 98/68. I don't make a habit of checking it when I'm hysterical.
Mine ranges from 86/55 to 115/58 or so. Believe me, when it gets "up" to 115/58 or so, I get sort of alarmed. I think that's the highest it's ever been tested at.
It's been so low sometimes that I have to wait and walk around or try to get excited or something to get it "up" to over 90/60 to give blood.
Doctors have been asking me for years "if I feel OK." Yes, I feel fine. I feel great in fact. They always say "Well, alrighty then - this is your normal. Have fun!"
When I was in my 20s it was usually around 90/60. It stayed low til I turned 45-ish, and went up to around 100/65. I'm 60 now, and it's been averaging around 110/72.
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My BP was always in your lower range, and doctors were always telling me I needed to get it up, that it was too low. One healthcare provider even thought there was something wrong with his BP device when he got something like 75/65 or so. But the last few years I've been reading, that the new norm, or the new ideal, is exactly in that range. They're finding that what they used to take as normal/healthy, which was in your upper range, with the top of the "healthy" range being around 120/85 or so, is no longer considered healthy. It's considered too high. They're recommending that one's daily average be below 3-digits for the top value. They're also now saying, which always seemed like common sense to me, that to get an accurate picture of your BP, you need to measure it throughout the day, then average the readings, to determine if you're in the (new) healthy range. 
