Hi there,

How are you doing? I was just reading your post there and saw that you mentioned you were a nurse. I suffer with GAD but i can go for months feeling fine and then out of the blue i can get bolts of fear, terror and anxiety. I fear so much about alophecia as i don't want to loose my hair from all my worry. Its a vicious cycle i worry about worrying. dont like to symptom search and i do suffer from what they call " White Coat syndrome" Everytime i see a bp machine i feel my anxiedy go up.

As a nurse do you know if anxiety raised Bp is harming on the heart? I got my BP checked 4 weeks ago and it was 120/75 then last week i went down to get a perscription and wasn't doing well anxiety wise i had been standing out in the cold for over half hour and to top it off my Doc was off and a strange locum doc was standing in for him. Anyway she took my BP and it was 140/105!!! She kinda panicked a little and i told her i suffered with Anxiety and my doc knows my past history i also told her that i have recently lost 3 stone in just over a year so i do hope and pray my BP was down to just anxiey alone what do you think about Alophecia with Anxiety is it common??