Hi, Folks -

Shortly after my "hospital holiday" in February I was visited by a home health nurse for an initial meet-up. She asked a number of questions, making entries on the forms on her tablet computer, which I assume was sending to "the cloud" or somwhere, via WiFi.

Done with her questions and just before leaving, she took a reading of my blood pressure, which, surprisingly, turned out to be something like 170+/100+ (may have been 101+). I say "surprisingly" because I'd just spent a week or ten days in hospital, where they read my blood pressure multiple times each day and no one had said it appeared to be that high or even high at all.

The nurse expressed considerable alarm over this and the fact that I wasn't under care of a "primary physician" and urged me to immediately return to the ER. She agreed to leave if I would try to arrange a physician initial intake visit in the next day or two. She then left.

In keeping with all that, I made a phone call to see if the already-scheduled intake visit could be moved forward. That call resulted in welcome conversation with another nurse, who said, "Yes, but how do you feel?" "Uh...okay, actually." "Headache? Blurred vision? Nose bleed" "Uh, no, nothing like that." "Well, just keep an eye on it, and if a disturbing symptom shows up, then go to the ER." :)

I have a wrist-mounted BP monitor. I checked; it got approximately the same reading the home health nurse had observed.

Days went by and all seemed well; my wrist monitor never again showed me a reading that high. On the contrary, it often showed me a reading below 120/80.

Then I went for the initial intake visit with a doctor new to me. He mostly stared at a computer screen, not at me, occasionally slapping the keyboard, and eventually checked my blood pressure - and got roughly the same reading the home health nurse had gotten. He then declared, "You have high blood pressure." I expressed some doubt about that; he checked again, even using the other arm, but still got that high reading.

Let's review. :) Blood pressure readings taken by different medical professionals in two very different physical settings were virtually identical and pretty darned high. A reading taken just now, however: 116/76. So, what gives?

I'd figure "white coat syndrome" may have been a contributing factor. But after thinking about all of it for some time, I've been wondering if the nurse's uploading info to the cloud and the doctor's networked conversation with certain health-related database programs (or something) are important vectors.

I've done my best to keep extraneous EMFs out or my house - I don't own a cellphone and keep WiFi switched off in my Internet-connecting router. Contact with both the nurse and the doctor included contact with particular electromagnetic fields.

Were the high readings a result of effects of those fields? I suspect they may have been, and the above posted Epoch Times article appears to confirm that such could be possible.

Related question: I one's BP is all over the place from very high to very low, is it correct to say one "has" hypertension?

--hobie