White Coat Hit Hard Today - High & Low Blood Pressure Message Board

rander5 · 09-23-2005, 12:29 PM

Well today I had an incident where a wooden valance fell and hit me square on the face - I was pretty sure imy nose was broken and knew I should go see the doctor. This got me so worked up that I took bp before I went to the doctors my bp was 150/102. My normal #'s have been averaging about 117/78.

My doctor said she thinks I am having panic attacks when I get there - which I agree with - however I have to question what kind of damage are these spikes doing to my body??? I am not taking any medication, which after bringing her in my bp monitor - she was able to look at my numbers from the past couple days and she agrees that I probably shouldn't be taking it (which I was very thankful for) but she did say maybe I needed to see a cardiologist because she didn't know if these spikes could be doing harm to me.

Any thoughts???

rander5 · 09-24-2005, 06:47 AM

No thoughts?????

Lenin · 09-24-2005, 06:52 AM

It's normal for BP to go high during panic attacks. The part in our favor is that panic attacks generally take up only a little of our time. Normal BP for the OTHER 22-23 hours is the more important factor.

If you HADN'T gotten a BP rise after thinking your nose had been broken with that valence, it proibably would be pretty good evidence that the valence had killed you.

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If, on the other hand, someone is in a state of panic 3, 5, 8 or 10 hours a day, dsy ion snd dsy out, he has a lot more to worry about than his BP...like suicide.

rander5 · 09-24-2005, 11:27 AM

Thanks Lenin - I did actually think the valence killed me (lol) It hit me so hard that blood squirted all over everything including my 2 year old - a bit scary! The spike pretty much stayed around all day and night yesterday -but today it seems to be going down a bit. I guess I am still a bit freaked out - I look like Marcia Brady (lol)

Have you ever heard of anyone getting over the white coat - I hate to think that everytime I go to the doc this is going to happen???