That's good advice @mayofeb2020, thank you. I do have a wrist monitor and it has been providing the numbers I mentioned earlier. Here at home when exercising I score 110/70. While on Metoprolol I score lower than that. For instance, this morning was 102/67. I see in the White Coat Hypertension article on Wikipedia that high results are usually due to smaller cuffs, or cuffs too small. In my case on Tuesday, that's exactly what it was. There's a red one and blue one, the blue one is the smaller one and it is what both the nurse and the doctor used on me. I usually request the red one but was for sure certain my BP was not a problem based on my home scores. Seeing 160/82 on the machine TOTALLY shocked -- bamboozled, even -- me, to the point that I didn't know if asking for the red would make a difference.

To me the BP issue wasn't even an issue. I was actually there to talk about another issue (I've created a thread on this forum about it entitied "Feeling Like Heart is Kicking Me When Sitting"), but the 160/82 reading fully sidetracked my whole morning -- and week, for that matter.

Also, I got into a discussion with my doctor with regards to cuff vs. arm. Apparently, wrist measurements aren't as accurate as the (upper) arm. I am aware of this nuance, but to me, if one is scoring 110/70 on the wrist, that has got to be good for a 120/80 for an arm cuff. Regardless, I took to Amazon to find a highly rated arm cuff for a good price ($26), so I am going to try that out and add that to my metrics. I'm sort of miffed with this battle! Tired of these automated machines!

Not sure if links can be posted, but this is the one I got: amazon.com/dp/B07JN1DF1D