For whatever reason, knowing that a nurse is checking my blood pressure makes my anxiety spike through the roof and always leads to an insane reading (the systolic has gone as high as 191). The nurse always looks at me super concerned and asks if I have hypertension. Reality is: I'm 31 years old, in great shape, eat healthy, workout 5x a week but I simply have to explain that I simply can't control how anxious I get in this scenario.

Has anyone else had this problem and figured out how to alleviate it?