 [ Symptoms ] my systolic pressure is 124 and my diastolic pressure us 114 why is the diastolic so high  my blood pressure up until recently has been good all my life i am 48 overweight about 60 pounds do not exercise and eat what i want most of time under a lot of workhome stress bp runs like 110 12060 70 pain does seem to affect it some which is what i am experiencing now with some feet issues but this is the first time i have seen the bottom number go up and not the top and not this much has my luck run out my last reading was 120104 what could that bottom number mean [ Disease ] 104 means the heart is not relaxing between pumps need a thallium treadmill test to check out heart blood flow cut back on red meat see a doc to do a electrocardiogram