Anxiety handhold please?

[Madanaa]

At the walk in centre was feeling nervous as it is but ny bp came back as 147/97 and its just sent me into overdrive, im so scared. I'm of a normal weight and go for a relatively long walk 3ish times a week. I'm really scared

That’s not massively high as a one off reading when your stressed.

Are you being treated for the anxiety?.

I’m sorry to hear that, I suffer from health anxiety. Do you get anxious when they do your BP? I had pre-eclampsia when pregnant and whenever anyone took my BP I would get so scared, eventually bought my own machine and did it at home. For now, it sounds so so cliched but I used to take slow, deep breaths and imagine a waterfall as the cuff released, like I was breathing the tightness off.

I hope you’re ok