Doctors said I had “high blood pressure” all through my pregnancy but it ended up just being white coat syndrome
Hi guys Just wanna give any women out there some reassurance during their pregnancy! I am currently 5 weeks PP for reference. All through my pregnancy I had elevated BP readings ONLY at the doctor but not at home. Because of this they had me on like three different BP medicines and it just caused a lot of stress everytime I went to the doctor. They said it was chronic hypertension since all they saw at the doctor was higher readings. When I went into the hospital at 37 weeks they closely monitored my bp and from that Wednesday till I delivered on Friday and was released on a Sunday I never had any high BP readings while I was at the hospital. I hadn’t even taken BP medicine the whole time I was at the hospital. So I type all this just to say that I was made to worry my whole pregnancy about my BP and it turns out it wasn’t hypertension just white coat syndrome. Now I’m not saying this is the case for everyone this is just my experience, but I feel like if the doctors would have just listened to me when I constantly told them I just have anxiety when I go to the doctor and that’s why my BP reads high then I could have been saved so much stress and not have had to go through so much trouble.