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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Melgar" data-source="post: 2756227" data-attributes="member: 520626">[USER=401801]@JoKalsbeek[/USER] I wrote about my blood pressure issues in another post, but I will copy it here as it shows what stress and outside influences can have on your BPI came off my blood pressure pills as  my BP was okay. Then about two years later my BP started to rise again. One morning, which I will never forget, I tested my BP, it was slightly raised so I tested it a few minutes later to see if it had normalized. It hadn't, in fact it was higher. So I tested it several more times. My BP went higher and higher. So high in fact I became very concerned. So I called 811 health line (that's the Canadian health line #) and spoke to the nurse. She asked me to test it again while I was on the line, it was like 160/110. She called an ambulance. I was then carted off to hospital. I was taken straight to a bed, no waiting at all. I had heart monitors put on, BP monitor the whole nine yards. My BP came right down.The Dr attending me, who was Scottish, recalled a story from when he was a med student, this was a long time ago. Anyways, he told me that when he was at med school, doing the BP lesson they all tested their own BP. One of his fellow student's BP was raised. He then went on to tell me that they ribbed this poor guy so much about his raised BP, it went very high, no doubt from anxiety. It went so high he was admitted to the hospital and kept in overnight. The Dr said they all felt badly and it was anxiety, due to being ribbed about his BP, that had caused his BP to rise so dramatically. The Dr then told me that this is what had happened to me. I went back on my BP meds.Ed grammar</blockquote>

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