Head Case

Now that I am stuck at home, one main form of entertainment is going to the doctors. I went on Wed, Fri, and to the hospital yesterday. They are having me go to have a monitor put on twice a week to see how the baby is doing due to the hypertension. Baby W always passes with flying colors, and is developing just fine (had ultrasound on friday, and up to 3lbs 10oz.

Of course I have a history of the white coat hypertension as most of you know. This one intake nurse makes me kinda nervous. She is nice, but immediately when she tests my urine and takes my pressure, she makes "oh no" kinda comments. This sort of gets me into an anxiety mode right away. She's like, "Oh, there is sugar in your urine". They had to do the glucose testing on me twice, but the perinatologist and my doctor have determined that I do not have gestational diabetes. So I can now have that comment roll off of me. Then she always comments when my BP is high, and lately when I see my doctor I get worked up about it and it goes up to 160/90. That tends to raise concern as you would expect. After knowing my pressure is up, it is really hard for me to relax and I just dwell on it. The first time it happened I went on the monitor in the hospital, they did blood work, and they watched my pressure. Guess what? My pressure went right down lying around the hospital and they let me go. So that is why I am lounging around at home.

When they put me on the monitor and take my pressure it is called the non stress test. Yesterday it turned into a stress test. My BP was up when they took the first reading. Then I just could not relax at all. I swear I was having a mini-anxiety attack. They took blood again and urine to make sure I did not have pre-eclampsia. I was not comfortable in the bed either. Finally I asked them to change the bed position, and would you know my BP went right down? I knew all the tests were negative. My palms were sweating, my face and chest were flushed. I really wonder what my heart rate was! So hopefully I do not cause a shit load of unnecessary testing due to my mental status! So morning reading today: 130/65. I am such a psycho!

PS, I have to go the hospital to get the monitor, it is not a big deal or an emergency. The office is closed on Saturdays.