This is a new phobia for me just recently came up in the last year! I HAVE NORMAL READINGS OF BLOOD PRESSURE AT HOME WHEN IN A RELAXED FRAME OF MIND BUT i GOT A HIGH READING AT THE DOC. OFFICE A YEAR AGO AND THE NURSE SCARED ME,saying are you feeling okay your reading is high, I totally panicked.I said I suffer form anxiety and I am very nervous long story short I went home took blood pressure reading over and over and got some high some low after the first few weeks I was settled with the thinking it just nerves, but i could not let the thought go, I jog and exercise outside and all I could think of what if I get high BP while I am running on the road . ect (fill in the blank with awful scenarios and that was my thought process for a month or 2 ! I have to go to the dr every month for a medication so I have too take the reading at the office so now just the thought of a machine makes me nauseous, I finally went to the hospital and said I was having chest pain so they would keep me and do all the test necessarily to make sure I was okay ! STRESS TEST, ECHO HOLTER,EKG, BLOODWORK 2 DAYS OF TEST! they concluded it was severe nerves but didnt even want to give BP meds because I get normal readings when relaxed and low heart rate because of my athletic training. You would think this would snap me out of it but I have a generalized anxiousness the day before my dr. appointment and I get really high readings at the office but they will not let me not take the reading at the office so i feel trapped because I have to have my medication every month and get the refill. it makes for a very annoying situation. Currently doing meditation . Is theer anything else I can do to stop this phobia . i am 100 percent vegan exercise 2 hr each day and do meditation daily besides a lobotomy what else can I do to relieve my fear of blood pressure reading from a dr? http://youtu.be/jTYk0GOrvHc