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Doctors don't like to give anyone a diagnosis that is "heavy duty," if a more light duty diagnosis will seem to fit the bill. That's how one pdoc expressed it to me. Now, it wouldn't be good for you to get told you have a cold, if you really had pneumonia. And it does happen that people get under-diagnosed with less than what is wrong. That results in care that is not adequate and the problem having more freedom to snowball out of control. I'm glad you have a doctor who has done the "heavy lifting" in the diagnosis department.
Like nikki says, more than likely, you didn't get the BP around the time you got the diagnosis. Instead, you were finally getting a tough problem adequately recognized. I think your future may be brighter now, than it was before. As BPMom says above, learn all you can and apply it - "working on what I need to do" - as you put it, yourself, very wisely. January of this year is still pretty recent IMO.
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