It's me again. I've been arguing with my dr. about this BP issue of mine. He thinks HE'S right, and I think I'M right. So...I thought I would post here again, and get some input from you guys, who are going through this too.
He put me on all this medication after one high BP reading. Yeah, it was high, BUT, like I've been telling him, three weeks BEFORE this high reading, I was in his office (and have white coat syndrome by the way) and my BP was 132/80. The night I had the spike, I was sick, running low grade fever, had introduced tons of caffeine and nicotine back into my system, and had eaten a LOT of salty potato chips. I was smoking like a fiend for 3 full days and drinking one Pepsi after another, when I hadn't been doing much of either for almost three months. Took my BP and it was 168/86. Then, due to panic and anxiety disorders, those numbers scared me, and I, of course, panicked. I took it again, and it had jumped to 181/86. The next reading was 197/100!!!!!!!!!! Husband took me to the hospital, and by the time I got there I was sure I was going to have a stroke at any minute, and they got a reading of 200/103!!!!!!!!!!!!!! BUT.....by the time they got me back to an examining room, it had already dropped on it's own to 181/85. And was slowly falling and had reached around 150 something over 80 something. The ER doctor told me that he was giving me a very MILD anti-hypertensive drug and wasn't going to prescribe me any meds, because he thought it was all nicotine, caffeine, stress, salt and being sick induced high BP and NOT the real thing. MY doctor INSISTS that I have high blood pressure. That night, when I left the hospital, my diastolic # was 56. My doc medicates me anyway and I'm having dangerously low readings at times. Most of the time. So, who's right, me or my doctor? I've told him I want him to help me get off this stuff, and he insists that I have to have it. He knows about the low readings too. Also, how much of an effect does smoking have on our BP?
Melanie
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