Does anyone feel anxious when they have an appointment with a doctor or just a casual routine blood check up? I especially feel this way when my blood pressure is checked and I’d try to take deep breaths and not look at the machine with the numbers. Last I checked my blood pressure, it was 134/72, which isn’t bad by any means but 134 is definitely related to my being anxious at the hospital and horrified of the medical results I might get. I miss the days when I’d go to the hospital and couldn’t care less of what the results are or scared for my physical health. I wasn’t always like this and I never had issues with doctors or medical checkups or obsessively thinking about whether I suffer from a disease that’s created from the illusion that anxiety creates. The thing is when I get an ECG or my blood pressure checked, it’s usually slightly high because I get scared because I’m trying to calm down and relax and focus on my breaths for the reading. Then I think to myself is there actually something medically wrong with me or is it just the anxiety disorder manipulating everything. I hope some one can help me with this.