The beta blockers cannot be stopped all at once — we have to be weaned off them, or the symptoms they have been eliminating will come back in force (and who knows why that is — but it is).
As a patient, it is easy to panic when something like the blood pressure changes quickly, but please try to stay calm. For one thing, the blood pressure you present at home may be very much lower than the blood pressure in a doctor’s office: some of us get tense about doctor visits and our blood pressure goes up. My husband — under doctor’s orders — bought a blood pressure machine to take daily readings. When he showed the doctor his log, the doctor thought the machine was faulty because the readings were so very much lower than the ones in his office. So he had my husband bring his little machine to the office and tested it out: it read perfectly. So, try to stay calm, and wait to discuss things with your doctor this afternoon.
I do hope you are feeling better soon.
Bobbi — NGDF Online Facilitator
