There is no way to edit the post so I figured I would add that I had a heart stress test and that came back normal. They put an event monitor on me and didn't find anything out of the ordinary and everything was sinal. I did take a sleep study and the found I had mild sleep apnea and took a lung test and mild athesma. But nothing that would suggest anything major. Thanks again.
For one thing, with what are you measuring your BP? Most h0me devices aren't all that accurate so unless you're using something a doctor prescribed, such as using your phone or a fitbit or something, that's not actually going to be all that accurate and might explain the differences in one arm vs. the other. Or it could indicate your stronger arm has a stronger blood pressure. But as to the rest, exercise should be raising your heart rate. That's what it's for, as the heart is a muscle and exercising it makes it stronger. The harder you exercise the harder it works. But in those who exercise regularly, assuming you aren't constantly increasing your energy output, starting out makes everything speed up but then the body, being used to it, relaxes and eases into the exercise and everything regularizes. This means the heart is handling the stress of exercise well. You can notice this particularly when you do cardio. On a long run, at first breathing can be hard, but then a runner settles in and breathing gets easier until exhaustion, when it starts to become difficult again. Stress and anxiety are very different things, but can have the same problems, and one of them can be high BP. Or not. But it does manifest itself somehow so if you do have a chronic anxiety problem, or if you're under stress for a long period of time and it isn't easing up, then it might be time to see a therapist and beat it. As to anything else, obviously we're not docs here, so if you do have lingering concerns that haven't been addressed by your docs get better docs. But to me, the fact they gave you meds, which is unfortunately the only thing most docs know how to do, and they didn't sit well for you but also didn't seem to do much for you and stopping one of them hasn't been a problem, it might be you never needed them to begin with. Also, look at your diet and your sleep and your lifestyle really closely, as they have the biggest impact on these things other than those with some chronic disease state. Peace.
Hello there. I'm a fellow high blood pressure readings person. Sad to say. I started medication for it for the first time in December. I will say that I physically feel better now even though blood pressure is supposed to be a silent disease. Truthfully, I think there were physical signs I had it but just wasn't aware. Are you taking your bp at home due to monitoring suggestions by your doctor?
What is the update on this situation? Let's talk!