All in my mind
I had my check up with the doctor this morning. Although I am quite sure the pain in my chest is from the arm lock Tom and I do, I still brought it up, just in case. (Last year I went to the ER for it, had every test known to the hospital and it turned out to be the arm lock. This year I waited until my check up to ask.)
Much like last year, I had woken up in the night with my chest hurting.
Much like last year, despite knowing it is almost certainly from that arm lock; I worried and didn’t get back to sleep.
When the nurse first took my blood pressure, it was still fairly high (148/84).
Just to be sure, the doctor did an EKG on me and confirmed nothing seems wrong with my heart.
While setting up for it, talked with them about Phoenix, the upcoming trip to GCRF and sword fighting in general.
The doctor took my blood pressure again and it was down a lot. (132/78).
So, she confirmed that stress and worry are making it shoot up and when I relax it goes back down pretty well. While I knew that, I hadn’t seen the numbers change like that in 20 minutes before. Good proof she’s right.
And, there was the fail-safe method of telling my doctor thinks I’m OK.
She complained about my weight. So, she must think I’m doing OK.
She is keeping me on the Blood Pressure medicine at least until my physical this summer. By then I’ll be back to biking and will hopefully have taken more of the weight off.
Until then, all I have to do is avoid stress and worry.
Well, unlikely or not, at least I've got a plan.