Talked with dad, and confirmed that these blood pressure spikes seem to be hereditary... and have both anxiety and food correlations...
He suggested taking the stress pills more proactively, than reactively... and he may have a point... I know that the mental spirals that happen when things are starting to test weird are the worst thing, in this whole eqvation... can't calm down, keep retesting with worse results, freaking out more, shallow breathing, panic, loop to 1...
While I'm waiting for the anxiety meds to be in my system enough to take effect, it may not be a bad idea to just take one of those pills daily, in the meantime...
@JulieSqveakaroo what are the anxiety meds? we noticed a *huge* improvement in stress levels after switching from just taking sertraline to taking (a lower dose of) sertraline in conjunction with buspirone regularly
we'd previously had clonazepam as a take-when-needed for panic attacks, but we were wary of using that too much because it's very addictive. buspirone has, as far as we know, zero addiction potential
-F
