17-05-2023, 05:22 PM
(17-05-2023, 03:45 PM)Oh_hunnihunni Wrote: I did have another win today though. My blood pressure reading at the gp yesterday was seriously high. Unusual for me, and she started muttering things about drugs. I have enough Must Take drugs and am averse to any more, and have even dropped one of the ones she insisted on, and been growled at as a result. So today I called in to my favourite pharmacist and got one of the girls to do my blood pressure again. Three times. Normal. Normal. And normal.I may be stating the obvious OH but I had a recent BP that was above my normal. It was taken just after I had consumed a fresh coffee which the nurse had just been good enough to make for me. We put it down to a 'caffeine elevation', and sure enough next visit (after denying myself my usual morning espresso) BP was as it should have been. Apparently licorice has a similar effect so no Blackadder tea before BP tests either.
Take that bossy doc, lol.