Doctors have been jerking me around for years about my blood pressure, never being able to tell me if I have high blood pressure or not, nevertheless I've been on pills for it for over a year, terrible, quality of life lowering side effects. I could not complete a 24 hour monitor test due to no possibility of sleeping with that thing on.
So the data I did get shows it is in exactly the same range as what I get when I measure my own blood pressure with my own device at home, and while not on meds, and it is comfortably in the healthy zone.
I have told them a thousand times to a thousand people two things cause it to go higher than what is considered healthy--simply standing up and walking 30 feet and sitting down to have it measured without waiting 20 minutes, and being stressed the f**k out by the two dozen factors that being at the clinic always causes.
I have had two occasions where it was very high because I was appropriately stressed out or in a great deal of pain due to circumstances, and every other occasion can be explained by anxiety at the time of it being taken. They have no clue, and someone just keeps coming along when I happen to not be on it, that just puts me back on some blood pressure med I have not been on before, and now my new doctor enters the stage "dO yOu ThInK iTs JuSt WhItE cOaT sYnDrOmE?" Same question I got when I was a kid. It's gone full circle, and now it seems like the year of suffering was all for nothing, due to erroneous prescribing because they will not do their f**king job and be absolutely sure if something is or is not a goddamn medical necessity.
I will take the stroke or dropping dead at this point of high bp if I'm wrong. It is not worth what I go through so my bp is only a few points lower when taken under the circumstances that invalidate the measurement anyways. Different docs go from "this will kill you" to this is slighlty above where we like it to be, and it may just be a bad reading. The usable data doesn't even support high BP.
I've had to pay money out of pocket for things I'm normally covered for just so I'm not seen by a health provider that values me less than a cockroach. And even then, I get treated in a way that is immoral and should be illegal if it already isn't. I've had to make "do not contact" requests, I have been in situations where my life was endangered but they fail to act appropriately. Another issue is that I continue to get treated in ways I should not be, because things that should be in my medical record are not.
I have to hope that this med has not caused physiological changes, where I will suddenly develop high blood pressure for real, whereas I would not have it if I had never been on it. This exact scenario of being on a med I should never have been on in the first place creating a problem I've never had in my life before has happened before.
