uberdawg
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Has anyone ever heard of or experienced something called white coat hypertension? This is when you get elevated blood pressure reading only at the doctors office or when someone else takes your BP. Maybe due to anxiety or whatever etc.. The last few visits to my Dr and blood donation clinic my blood pressure has been around 140/90. Which is WAY higher than my normal blood pressure. It usually never goes past 120/80.. So I started monitoring regularly at home(wrist unit) and my BP is always fine. So to make sure my wrist unit was accurate I brought it with me to my doctors appointment. I thought maybe either the wrist monitor was off or the cuff they were using at the doctors was too small, but sure as shit they both read the same.