Back from the dr again..

[Bam77]

Everytime I go to the dr my bp goes sky high. I cant seem to relax when they pull out the bp cuff. I can actually feel my anxiety act up and my bp rise. It was 170/100. We checked it again before I left and it had dropped to 150/84 but I still wasn't relaxed all the way. It looks like im gonna have to go back on clonidine.. Anyones else's bp rise dramatically at the dr?

[Shepard]

Mine! It's called white coat syndrome.

My resting BP is usually between 117-120/75. But at the doc's it'll shoot up to 150-160/98. My doc wanted me on metoprolol last visit until I proved my BP is usually pretty normal.

[str8trippin]

Yep, same issue here. Mine is normally 115-119/65-75 and every time I'm at the doctor it's in the 130's/90's...it's never gone up much higher than that, but my previous doctor who I am not seeing anymore told me I had chronic high blood pressure. I explained that it isn't regularly that high and she said, "High blood pressure is high blood pressure." Whatever that means! She didn't prescribe anything for it, though.

[frankzito]

In always get mad waiting past the time I'm supposed to be there, in turn raised blood pressure. They cause it in a number of ways!

[Bam77]

Checked it here at the house and its 132/81, which isn't too bad for me

[mistiblue]

Yep, every time!!