I have noticed that my blood pressure spikes when I sit in the waiting room playing on my phone. When I sit there without holding my arms up with a phone, my BP is in the normal range for much younger people. I was at a doctor’s appointment last week and I didn’t expect to have my BP taken, and I told the nurse that it would be high, and it was.
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Is it just holding the phone or what your doing/reading on the phone? Does it happen at home? I just find that interesting.
The content doesn’t matter. I have to hold my phone near my face to see what is written, and that seems to cause my blood pressure to read higher when I am called back and the nurse checks it. I have had it checked again after talking with the doctor and not holding my arms up like I am reading this thread, and it is around 120/80. If I had it checked right now, it would probably be in the normal range because I wear contacts at work and use reading glasses, which makes it easier to read this thread at arms length.