Andy699
03-07-13, 22:32
Hi everyone!
I've been having a HUGE hypertension crisis freakout yesterday and today. Was so scared this morning I was gonna call in sick but I didn't (which i'm glad of)... Here are the facts:
I'm fairly new to the site, my name's Andy and I turned 19 last month. I was at a friends house yesterday and his mum is diabetic so she has one of those wrist self check blood pressure things. Just out of curiosity I used it and it was 190 over 100! I used it twice more and it was over 200!! Then the panic really began... considering the norm is 120.
My friend wasn't helping. I'd drank on the weekend so I thought it might be that be he said it wasn't. So I got home and googled (so stupid I know). Apparantly there's hundreds of things that can cause high blood pressure. I felt relieved. But this mroning I woke up and kept thinking what if it's something REALLY serious.
I work at a nursing home so I asked one of the nurses about it and she said that the self-check ones mess up and give wrong results all of the time. She said if I was really over 200 I'd be really really ill and would find it hard to do things. 3 weeks ago I had my blood pressure checked at hospital and they said it was completely normal. She said not to worry about it and she said even if the checker was right, LOADS of things can cause high blood pressure.
Sorry for the very long post but is she right? I'm really scared. Thanks so much guys!
I've been having a HUGE hypertension crisis freakout yesterday and today. Was so scared this morning I was gonna call in sick but I didn't (which i'm glad of)... Here are the facts:
I'm fairly new to the site, my name's Andy and I turned 19 last month. I was at a friends house yesterday and his mum is diabetic so she has one of those wrist self check blood pressure things. Just out of curiosity I used it and it was 190 over 100! I used it twice more and it was over 200!! Then the panic really began... considering the norm is 120.
My friend wasn't helping. I'd drank on the weekend so I thought it might be that be he said it wasn't. So I got home and googled (so stupid I know). Apparantly there's hundreds of things that can cause high blood pressure. I felt relieved. But this mroning I woke up and kept thinking what if it's something REALLY serious.
I work at a nursing home so I asked one of the nurses about it and she said that the self-check ones mess up and give wrong results all of the time. She said if I was really over 200 I'd be really really ill and would find it hard to do things. 3 weeks ago I had my blood pressure checked at hospital and they said it was completely normal. She said not to worry about it and she said even if the checker was right, LOADS of things can cause high blood pressure.
Sorry for the very long post but is she right? I'm really scared. Thanks so much guys!