Do Blood Pressure Readers Need Calibrating

[soprano]

My doctor said that it has to be high for 4 visits before we get worried. One high reading can be treated as a fluke.

My BP had been borderline for years. I also get anxious about visiting the doctor for *anything. I take my BP at home regularly so I can avoid being put on BP drugs unnecessarily.

* This started when I was 11 years old and puking every morning before school. Mom took me to the doctor, he said it was all in my head and I was trying to get out of going to school, and no one ever did anything. Ten years later I was diagnosed with acid reflux. Since I started managing the reflux my life is much improved, but ever since that one visit when I was 11, I've always been afraid that any doctor I visit is going to say that I'm not really sick and not treat me.

[Aggie_Ama]

My doctor said 4x for worry but they won't refill my birth control if it keeps elevated. At least not the one I am on. Tomorrow I am going to my GP, hopefully he will find that last Thursday was just a fluke. I have to say I haven't been this nervous about going to the doctor in years since I had a rather scary (for me) health issue and had to go to Baylor College of Medicine to get a top ranked specialist.