kivyt73
06-08-10, 16:53
Hi Everyone,
I am 37, female with an average blood pressure of 107/74 after two years of checking obsessively. It all started because a couple of times I had "spikes" at the doctor's office like 140/90 or so. I started fearing high blood pressure and only felt better if I checked to make sure it was okay. I finally had to get rid of my home monitor because I was checking thirty times a day. I then went to checking once a week at the grocery store but that quickly becames several times a week and then if I happened to get a higher number (which to me is anything higher than 115/75) that would set off numerous trips to stores around the area until I would get a lower number. It has gotten so bad that I think about when I will take it, what I will eat before and when, what I will drink, etc). I also base my happiness and ability to function based on getting a good reading, so the more pressure i feel to get a good reading the more anxious I am so the higher the number. My doctor told me finally that I needed to stop taking it, that I don't have high blood pressure and that if I have to take it no more than once a month. Well it has been five days and I am anxious alot I want to check but I don't and I know I shouldn't. My goal is to refrain from taking it until I get back from vacation on the 23rd of August or even Sept 1st since that will be a month and that is what my doctor said to do. It's hard.
Does anybody go through this or been through it...any advice?
Thanks,
Ivy:roflmao:
I am 37, female with an average blood pressure of 107/74 after two years of checking obsessively. It all started because a couple of times I had "spikes" at the doctor's office like 140/90 or so. I started fearing high blood pressure and only felt better if I checked to make sure it was okay. I finally had to get rid of my home monitor because I was checking thirty times a day. I then went to checking once a week at the grocery store but that quickly becames several times a week and then if I happened to get a higher number (which to me is anything higher than 115/75) that would set off numerous trips to stores around the area until I would get a lower number. It has gotten so bad that I think about when I will take it, what I will eat before and when, what I will drink, etc). I also base my happiness and ability to function based on getting a good reading, so the more pressure i feel to get a good reading the more anxious I am so the higher the number. My doctor told me finally that I needed to stop taking it, that I don't have high blood pressure and that if I have to take it no more than once a month. Well it has been five days and I am anxious alot I want to check but I don't and I know I shouldn't. My goal is to refrain from taking it until I get back from vacation on the 23rd of August or even Sept 1st since that will be a month and that is what my doctor said to do. It's hard.
Does anybody go through this or been through it...any advice?
Thanks,
Ivy:roflmao: