Re: Hypertension/ER visit again..

Hi Insight,

Sorry for your troubling times. ER visits aren't fun at all. I imagine it'll take some days to come down from the anxiety around that.

I've been told that Blood Pressure is not something that you just check once. It can range up and down 10 to even 30 points in the course of minutes. Medical professionals will tell you to take it a three times over the course of a few minutes.

If you don't learn to do it multiple times, then the one time it's much higher will scare the living hell out of an anxious person and then jack it up more. *sigh* Great, eh? :)

Just after exercise it'll be higher plus caffeine, and yes, anxiety definitely boost it. Long term licorice use will also do that (which is why I had to watch mine).

It sounds like the experience may have had some good side effects though; I mean you got a shot at non-anxious living for a bit with the benzos. Is that going to change you in any way?