White coat syndrome

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My blood pressure is always higher at the doctors does anyone else suffer this and have you found any way to calm yourself before having blood pressure taken. I always take my own readings to the doctors but always feel like they think I'm making them up!

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    Quite Jenny. Gosh we thought we were clever didn't we back then!! We'd totter around in our stiletto heels with stockings with seams - remember those ?!!! And cigarettes were the height of sophistication. Our parents all smoked, mine did anyway, so all that second hand smoke went down our lungs from babyhood I imagine. How did we reach adulthood!

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