I can has hypertension

[gsh]

I think I'm going to stop going to doctors. Every time I go they find something else wrong with me.

Comments

[free-of-whip.livejournal.com]

At least hypertension tends to be very treatable.

[drcruel.livejournal.com]

Yeah-just give up everything fun and/or tasty :p

[petrona.livejournal.com]

I think doctor's office give people hypertension.

My mom's BP would shoot up the minute she stepped into the office and come back down, once we left.

No More Doctors

[warrenlapine.livejournal.com]

I'm in complete agreement with you. I'm very tired of finding out there's even more wrong with me than I thought there was.

[dckermit.livejournal.com]

This is common enough that it has a semi-official name: White Coat Hypertension. Doctors see it enough that they normally take it into account before making a diagnosis.

The reverse is not true, however. After a decade as an EMT I don't get stressed in a medical environment. Several years ago I had a minor medical diagnostic procedure that involved "twilight sleep" anesthesia. I woke up feeling great and my doctor appeared almost immediately to tell me that everything was fine. When they went to discharge me they freaked out because my BP wasn't elevated and delayed my release for 45 minutes before they decided that I wasn't going to pass out on the way out the door.

[reedrover]

Argh!

Do you think if you got the kidney stones to go away your blood pressure would go back to normal too? Or is that too much to hope?

[gsh]

That's what I had been hoping, the doc poured reality on it. Got scheduled for a nuclear stress test on Thursday.

[lilwolfgirl22.livejournal.com]

let us know how it goes. nuclear stress tests are really no big deal, but it's good that with the new htn diagnosis they're checking. -hugs-

[tamnonlinear.livejournal.com]

You know, the point of those health questionnaire checklists is not to collect the whole set.

I hope you feel better soon. Eeesh. The rest of 2009 had better be stellar for you.