So I went to the doctor yesterday about this cough. Turns out I have a sinus infection and bronchial irritation, so I'm on a bunch of over the counter drugs as well as an antibiotic that should help a lot. They're also going to do an allergy panel with my bloodwork to see if they can target what causes this cough to get me every spring.
The biggest concern the doctor had was not my cough, however, it was my blood pressure. It was 150/104, which is apparently pretty freaking high for a 24-year-old. Dr. Garrett wants me to monitor it daily to see if it is always that high, or if was just high that day because of stress, etc. If she sees that it is constantly close to that high then she will put me on blood pressure medication. Yay.
I don't understand a lot about blood pressure. I've never had a problem with it being high at all, and even while I was pregnant it was actually lower than average. Only in the last year have I been told that it's elevated, but I've never understood if that's bad or not. So now I'm doing some research about it and we will see what I can do to bring it down. Maybe it's a lifestyle thing that I can change. Although both of my parents have it, so perhaps it's just something I have to deal with. Oh well, such is life.
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