Originally Posted by
Freaked
Thanks for all the replies. The reason I was taking my BP was I have a condition that mostly causes low blood pressure. Very occasionally the system will overcompensate and go too high, but this doesn't happen very often and it scares the crap out of me. I get scared it will just keep climbing until my blood vessels explode or something :-( I have this great fear of stuff 'rupturing'. I also seem to have a kidney infection and ate some rice I suspect of containing msg, so either of those might have been a factor.