Personal BP Recordings and Medicals

[ARGO]

With phones being as involved as they are in our lives and having time stamps etc, has anyone ever recorded themselves taking their blood pressure at home and kept it in their back pocket going into their medical should they need it?

My BP usually is around 115/75-120/80. I find I get more nervous going to renewals as I age (especially now that other people depend on my job and not just me) and as the years go by. Sometimes I think, one of these renewals the white coat syndrome is going to send it over the “normal” limit. Seeing as I’m fairly close to it.

Has anyone experienced this and have had a doctor receptive to taking your personal readings/video proof from home for your renewal if you experienced higher readings while in the office?

[mmm...bacon]

Consulting Dr.Google, I’m not sure that you have anything to worry about, unless your BP spikes to higher than 130/85 in the CAME’s office. That being said, I had a minor blip in my pulse rate at my last medical - enough that my CAME flagged it to my gp. I was able to partially defuse the situation by pulling out my wristwatch, which conveniently has a 7 day average heart rate function - showing that my ‘anomaly’ wasn’t very anomalous for me….

[7ECA]

According to TC, as long as you are below 140/90 you should be okay. But, if you start approaching that criteria on either the systolic or diastolic side you can expect some tut tutting...

https://tc.canada.ca/en/aviation/public ... iovascular

Slightly elevated BP in a doctor's office is common, and if a CAME gives you grief about it it's time to find a new one. Some CAME's can also just be jackasses when it comes to stuff like that - again, time for a new doctor.

If you start to show signs of elevated BP more regularly, then it's worth investing in a quality monitor for at home use - so you can have a daily log of numbers. Either to show, yep crap I've got elevated BP and now need to deal with it, or nope, this is just white coat syndrome and here are my records.

[aaronramsdale]

I’m kind of the opposite. My BP tends to be pretty consistent both at home and during medicals. I’ve never needed to bring logs or recordings, but from what I’ve seen, doctors prefer their own measurements anyway rather than personal tracking.
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