Can anyone help? I recently changed doctors and made an appointment to get my leg veins checked as they have been causing me some discomfort lately and making it hard to sleep.
She did a range of general health checks, all the usual stuff, but when she took my bp it was 180/120. She said that I needed medication immediately and that I could have a stroke or a heart attack at any moment. The shock has hit me hard and when I told her that my previous doc had done nothing because of my anxiety, she said she didn't care and that it was dangerous. I am now on Candesartan and having massive panic attacks which frighten me so very much. I am sleeping even less and having to wait for follow up appointment in a few days. I am living with her words constantly in my head and all the symptoms, headaches, chest pain, pounding heart, shortness of breath, shaking etc.
I bought a new bp monitor and it gave me a reading that was ridiculously high and now my arm has a dent in it from the cuff. I took it back and the chemist confirmed that it was faulty. My new one is better but I only have to think about using it and I can feel my stress going up and up. The lowest reading so far has been 156/92 which I thought was better only for me to have another massive panic attack the next time. I really thought I was going to die.
Before my appointment I did not have these symptoms, but ironically my legs have improved with the tablets. My life has completely changed now and I don't know if the doctor was right or not. Either way my bp is constantly high now and I am in a state of anxiety and terror. Can I get my life back to what it was? I think I am going crazy.