I have had an occasional spike noted while at the doctor’s, though normally my bp ranges from normal—of course (when sitting or lying down) to so low I would faint if I have to continue upright. The occasional spikes in a medical setting I attribute to my anxiety being in this situation. I react like a pet usually does at the vet’s. My repeated experience is that medical people don’t understand my condition—they look at and test mostly irrelevant things in mostly irrelevant ways for my real condition, and keep ignoring what I need to be looked at and tested. I am so tired of this, though I understand why it happens.
Once while on the operating table for a small surgery requiring general anaesthesia, my bp measured at 300, which the surgeon ignored as if it were a result of faulty equipment. It had never been abnormally high in her outpatient office for a routine visit and she wanted to get on with the surgery, so she brushed it off and went ahead, with no adverse outcome.
Yesterday I had a tiny procedure at a hospital and clocked in at 173 over 103 or 113, don’t recall. Since they were concerned, I convinced them to take it after I had stood for 2 minutes and of course it was much lower.
There is no way I would take medicine for rare spikes when what I need is as much support as I can get for my daily experiences of lows to extreme lows. I agree with the idea that autonomic dysregulation in our cases might go either way irregularly.
It seems to me that medical people regard high bp as serious but very low bp either not somehow serious or real since this issue is more uncommon to them. It annoys me that they brush off so many of our common symptoms in the same way, when the reality is that these symptoms together, if not always separately are truly disabling. We all know this....
