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cestith ◴[] No.45893306[source]
Regarding white coat hypertension, the shot isn’t always necessary. Some people’s blood pressure just goes up from the stress of the clinical setting.
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1. saghm ◴[] No.45898517[source]
My wife developed an autoimmune condition a few years ago that causes her to need to see a specialist every few months. For some reason, the hospital we've been going to uses these automated blood pressure readers that literally need to get wheeled around because they're four feet tall with a digital display, and during one of the early visits she had because of one of these conditions, the device bugged out or something and it kept squeezing her arm without releasing the pressure, and the person taking the reading didn't know how to disengage it manually and ran out of the room to go and find someone to help them without taking the time to rip off the velcro band on my wife's arm or anything. Ever since then, I literally get stressed every time my wife's blood pressure gets taken from one of those devices even though I'm not even the one who's getting measured!