Yeah, that makes sense. I've seen them not retake in some clinics.

I just spent about $300 on sports bras. I'm going to be returning a bunch of them. But, since no stores around here carry my size, I've got to order a whole bunch in a lot of different sizes and try them all on to see what fits. (I've mostly been exercising in regular bras, but it doesn't work that well, so I figured I'd give sports bras another try, see if the technology has improved since last time I tried them.) (My size is tricky. 32-34 band size, and cup size well above the usual range. Usually, bras in that band size only go up to DD or so, and bras in my cup size are often plus-size ones where the band sizes start at 36 or 38.)

Hil, I have a similar issue (34" band size, very large cup), and I LOVE my Glamorise sports bra. It has no underwire, which is rare unto being unicorn-like in sports bras of that size. It doesn't give uniboob, but it holds things reasonably well in place when I'm running or doing anything requiring jumping.

There's such a thing as a sports bra that doesn't create uniboob? I had no idea.

Yup. My Wacoal sports bras are ones I don't mind wearing under a (not too low-cut) nice shirt, and they do a marvelous job keeping the girls in place. The Glamorize I'd wear out under a not-so-nice tee shirt in public, but I generally save it for workouts where I really, really don't want an underwire (any kind of core work, chest presses).

Anne, I'll take a look at that one if the ones I ordered don't work out. My other issue is that I've got really narrow shoulders, so I need the straps set much closer to the center of the bra than a lot of designs make them. I think that the one I had a few years ago that I liked reasonably well was a Glamorise one.

I totally have white-coat BP spikes. I guess that's all it is, though, although I have had it retaken at the end of an appt a few times.

Huh. So there's a live action room-escape game in Seattle and San Francisco apparently. My first thought at hearing about it (12 people locked in a room, solve puzzles to escape!) was that Buffistas would kick ass. Then my second thought was "er, would claustrophobia be an issue?"

If they are serious about the blood pressure reading, as in they believe there is an issue, they take it sitting, standing, reclining, etc.

The only time I've had doctors retake my BP (even when it was on the high side) was at Urgent Care when I went for a migraine and my BP was 140-something over 100-something. They waited 5-10 minutes while I lay down in a dark room and then retook it (and it was still high).

(That Urgent Care is shockingly good. I had always heard disparaging things about urgent care in general, that they don't give great care because they're just a revolving door for people who don't have insurance/are drug-seeking/whatever. But every time I've had to go to this Urgent Care, they've taken great care of me. Five stars, would bleed on their floor again.)

And it drives me fucking insane when nurses, who have JUST weighed me and therefore know I'm fat -- and can also see with their nurse eyes that I am a big fat panda -- pull out the regular-size BP cuff. Use a regular size cuff on a big fat panda like me and my BP will be high. Use a large-size cuff, and the reading is more accurate. (When it started running high with a large cuff is when I started to worry.)

I have the opposite problem -- nurses look at my weight and reach for the large cuff, even though that one covers my entire arm from shoulder to elbow, and thus gives totally screwed-up readings. (It also wraps around far too much, because they don't seem to realize that, while my BMI puts me as obese, my weight is not in my arms, and even if I were completely "normally" proportioned, I'm still 4'10".)