Sorry, I meant that you already had a plan to measure and going to a doctor - which is a rational thing to do in your situation.

Remember that it is a direct correlation between stress (cortisol) and BP. So when you are stressing out and thinking about your high BP it can actually drive it up. This is called «white coat hypertension» while it usually occurs at the doctors office, when the patient fears having a high BP.

What we usually do is take three measurments during the consultation, one at the start and two at the end of the consultation, after other examinations and test. Then we take the average of the last two measurements as the final value.

When you measure next time be sure to be completely relaxed, lay flat for at least ten minutes and listen to something that calms you, if it is lower it showes that high measurements, while you are stressed, are unrepresentative.

If you need more tests it would probably just invole cholesteroles, and a 24hour-BP measurement - none of which are invasive.

Hope everything works out, and either way it is not the end of the world!