High blood pressure reading before surgery

I got put on a blood pressure lowering medication for my surgery. Then it was discontinued. 

Turn up at GP surgery if you can't get appointment.  Cry & play in sympathy.

Also I was told not yo eat for 2 hours before BP and gentle walking onl6.  Don't know if true 

Hi I was the same as you very very high blood pressure due to white coat syndrome. I bought a blood pressure machine from Boots £20 and monitored my own at home. The results were very different to those at the hospital so I recorded them and showed them to anaesthetist. He was satisfied and had op yesterday. Good luck 

Thanks everyone. Still waiting to hear from GP.

Hope your surgery went well Fuerte

The op went very well thank you. The staff were beyond wonderful so if anything like me, you won’t be so scared and blood pressure will drop anyway. Came home same day and,today, just a bit sore and tired. You will be so relieved that the intruder or Colin, as I called him, sounds better than that awful c word. Anyway Colin is now sulking in a laboratory somewhere. All the best

Just wanted to say that sentence about Colin sulking in a lab made me laugh out loud ! 

Made me laugh too

I need to think of a name for mine now ... it's a good way of dealing with it!  

Got a call with GP surgery tomorrow but I've ordered a blood pressure monitor anyway so I can back my case. Just hope it's okay. 

I did the same did home monitoring for 2 weeks prior and went armed with readings to my pre op and of day old admission for op. 

Had my surgery on Monday and there was no fuss. about my BP whatsoever!! Slightly annoyed with the pre op assessment nurse who made me even more anxious for no reason. I do wish they’d do some joined up thinking when it comes to our care.

Didnt have the surgeon I was meant to have either - the Professor was “called away” whatever that means and two of us ended up with a lady surgeon who seemed very nice but was likely a locum. Story of the day was the poor woman who was discharged with her cannula still in. I then heard the nurse on the phone to her telling her she’d have to come back in!

Now recovering at home and hoping for clear margins first time so I can get the radiotherapy done. Results in 3-4 weeks. Not feeling too bad but have a cry every so often and sometimes a rage - usually when I’m alone. I do feel changed forever though. 

Let’s hope those margins are clear and you’re one step closer to good health, I’m sure you’re relieved to be home. Sounds like the ward was very eventful. Good to hear from you, I think we all recognise the being all over the place emotionally, it’s so incredibly hard holding it together all the time. Hope you get some rest and have good support around you x