My BP is pretty much all about my mood.
I know in my 40s I’m lucky I didn’t stroke out or have a heart attack because I had these times where I would just get absolutely livid at the stupidest things.
Now I realize that people are going to be people and I pretty much just ignore them.
I’ve lost jobs for the former and for the latter. Losing a job bugs my wife more than me.
When I go to the doc if I focus I can lower my blood pressure or raise it - weirds him out how fast I can do it
I can were my blood pressure by taking deep breaths and thinking of pleasant words like” tranquility, peace, calm, serenity.” I literally take a deep couple of breaths as they put the cuff on and, when it tightens, I slowly exhale while saying those words in my mind. Lowers it by 20 points, if I sit right and concentrate.
I also find that if the tech makes pleasant conversation with me, and takes my blood pressure at the very end of my history, it is lower than if I have just sat down. They usually do it twice and tell me I have “white coat syndrome.”
They tell me I have extremely high good AND bad cholesterol and want to put me on statins, which only have a 13% benefit for all the side effects. I tell them no because I only need to live ten more years. After that, I’m happy to go.
My BP is pretty much all about my mood.
I know in my 40s I’m lucky I didn’t stroke out or have a heart attack because I had these times where I would just get absolutely livid at the stupidest things.
Now I realize that people are going to be people and I pretty much just ignore them.
I’ve lost jobs for the former and for the latter. Losing a job bugs my wife more than me.
When I go to the doc if I focus I can lower my blood pressure or raise it - weirds him out how fast I can do it
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That’s pretty cool that you can do that, I’ve tried but my BP does as it pleases. My BP is always considered high when I’m at the doctors office, they call it “White Coat Syndrome”., but at home, I’m in the normal range.
Weirdness.