Posted by coral on October 8, 2000, at 12:08:04
Help! I am absolutely phobic about having my blood pressure taken. I've always had low bp, 100/60, and suddenly, it skyrocketed with four incidents of tachycardia. After all the cardiac tests which were normal, my life went on - until I was hit with panic/anxiety attacks and a severe clinical depression. The cardiologist put me on 25 mgs of tenormin to prevent the tachycardia and sent me to my GP. My history is that I'd had my thyroid removed 15 years earlier and had been on .03 synthroid since then. My GP refused to test my thyroid - just kept telling me to do all the "right" things to lower the bp which, at its worst, was 170/100, (exercise, lose weight, reduce salt) and he increased the tenormin to 50 mg. After a year of maintaining 145/90, I finally had my thyroid tested myself and it was through the roof. I fired the GP, found an endocrinologist who put me on zoloft, (librium and ambien as needed) in addition to the tenormin but I am now highly phobic about having my BP taken. Any suggestions?
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