Yo I've actually had patients tell me that! Fie on me for asking, "Do you have high blood pressure?" But then when I ask, "Do you have hypertension?", it's "...What is that?"
I'd probably go with "have you ever been diagnosed with high blood pressure?" And if they say yes, you can ask follow up questions on whether it's being treated with anything.
I'm sure some people will mess it up anyway, but I feel like less of them would.
I say something to this effect when I’m complimented on my blood pressure. I say “thanks, my cardiologist worked very hard for it to look like that” and then they get confused cause I’m 23.
Honestly complimenting someone's blood pressure at 23 seems odd in any case. Like if you had a high reading were they were gonna say "Well, 150/100 isn't ideal but as you age it does go up a little?" lol
Not to seem like I’m fishing for blood pressure compliments, but when they read off the numbers, due to my Hx of having such problems with it, I like to check if it’s good. I also can never remember what good numbers are. So they’ll say “126/80” or something and I’ll go “is that ok?” And they say “ya, that’s actually really good, textbook good numbers! Keep up what you’re doing!” Just super enthusiastic about it and I can’t bring myself to take the credit haha
Oh gotcha. I thought you meant they were surprised. I find I get more compliments the older I get, when I was younger it was more like "This is nothing to worry about."
Well, sometimes they are if they’ve read my chart before hand. It’s a page turner! And like I said, only 23! And then to have such normal vitals? It can be a tad confusing. For example, I will take no less than 17 prescription pills today. How is that person reading completely normal?
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u/bruuheeuh May 02 '26 edited May 02 '26
do you have high blood pressure ?
What medications do you take daily ?
Edit : formating