Cardiophile? White Coat Syndrome?

So. This topic has been halfway addressed through the years. Touched upon. But never really explored. Kind of two part. Please respond. If you’re a cardiophile, do you suffer WCS? BP enthusiast..WCS? And then. If you suffer WCS, is there anything erotic to you regarding blood pressure measurement? I may create a poll as well. I ask because it seems there is a higher percentage of those suffering WCS in the Cardiophile sub group than in population. And this. It would seem, goes back to the “Fear turns to Fetish” theory. That particular line of thinking regarding the formation of fetishes holds the most water with me. among the BP enthusiasts, such as myself, the WCS thing goes up exponentially.

Thanks for reading. Answer away. Please😃

I am aware I’m asking this in a population of medical play enthusiast😃 I’m nit writing a paper. Just genuinely curious.

It happens to me only when i visit a cardiologist, not every doctor. My heart rate rises, like that i have tachycardia.

Yes. I often have tachycardia and high blood pressure when seeing a doctor, especially one I've not seen before.

I'm not sure how much of this is cause and effect, though.

@tjc

I'm not sure how much of this is cause and effect, though.

Exactly. Maybe this discussion could shed light on that particular facet

@Luvnurses62

Hey and hello,

I would call myself a cardiophile. I like it when a young and attractive nurse or doctor listens to my heart. In general, I can do more with cardiological examinations than when it comes to the stomach or other regions now. As mentioned above, it starts with listening to the heart, continues with writing an EKG, and ends with the ABI index measurement. With these examinations mentioned you can hit me in the heart when it comes to eroticism as well. In everyday life this is often embarrassing and you get strange eyes when you enjoy it. But in a play session you can really get lost in it.

Blood pressure measurement enthusiast, but somehow I'm already that. I really like it when my blood pressure is measured. Preferably with a manual measuring device and stethoscope and then at all measuring points where you can measure and determine blood pressure. I don't have the white coat syndrome now. Of course, the values ​​go up a bit when you see a doctor or a nurse. But I can't do that extremely high. This then requires activities so that my values ​​increase exponentially.

Best regards

Yes, blood pressure exam really turn me on, because of this reason my bp is high at every checkup (150/100), I frequently go to a clinic to check my bp,

the feeling is erotic, I enjoy mine getting taken by the nurse with a mercury sphygmomanometer while I'm lying on the examination table, are you the @Luvnurses62 that has a youtube playlist of blood pressure exam videos

@bplover Yes…One and the same. Do you like it? I’ve added to that list for years and years now. Thanks all for your responses…Hope to get more.

Oh I love it , lately you haven't been adding anything new . Hoping for more content

Happens to me when I visit my GP. It's annoying and somewhat embarrassing.

I am definitely affected by WCS. The influence of a manual BP reading makes my reading even higher.

It's a problem for me too. My BP and HR are usually pretty low. Now that I've gotten more used to my doctor, it's actually gotten better - but I still will have an elevated BP and HR in the 60s (I'm normally below 60).

I've never heard the term White Coat Syndrome before, but that definitely applies to me.

I'm also a cardiophile. My fetishes are shaping around stethoscope and auscultation. I'm not really into BP part. I don't have white coat syndrome, blood pressure measurement doesn't seem erotic to me. But I have a needle phobia, my heart rate rises when I see needles.

I have it terribly, a DR’s office is a huge anxiety trigger

I don't know if I count as cardiophile, because it's the gesture of auscultation, even thinking about it (or seeing a stethoscope!) that turns me on, not listening to the heartbeat.

I don't have WCS and I'm not into BP either.

@Feesii said “I'm Happens to me when I visit my GP. It's annoying and somewhat embarrassing.”

Sorry I'm getting to this so long after the fact. It got by me somehow. Embarrassing. Sure is, but I don't really understand why it's embarrassing? Maybe, I feel like I should have better control of my emotions? Embarrassed that something so simple could bring that much anxiety? It is by far, the strangest affliction on the planet. Now, add to that I find the equipment used and procedure of taking a BP, extremely arousing and it's a dang train wreck. How do you love it and hate it at the same flipping time?

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Im still not quite sure if I even am or am not. Years ago my pcp said I had white coat syndrome b/c they would always get a high initial reading when I got to the office, and it would come down after a few minutes. So I never took the high blood pressure readings seriously. Then I had to go to the ER one day with seriously high BP and Ive been on meds ever since.

White Coat Syndrome (WCS) according to an undocumented study - occurs in as much 20% of the population. Masked Hypertension (MH) is just the opposite, one has sustained high BP but at the Dr. office it drops down to normal. Our Doc encourages us to monitor BP at home. If its significantly different when at the DR office it could mean one or the other (WCS or MH). BP can also automatically be monitored with a Ambulatory BP Monitor - which records BP heart rate every 20-30 minutes for a whole day.

Curious if people whose anxiety raises their BP at the Dr. office also get BP spikes during other stressful situations and whether this is a risk factor or not.

@gwhap and @iamweasel2112

I have had this terrible affliction since maybe 8-10 yrs of age. And for me, there is no doubt about it. It is a terrible, terrible feeling that at worst, may start a week before an upcoming visit, if I let it. As is, at the very least, from the moment I park my truck, heart rate increases to well over 100. 160bpm in the ER one time, years ago. And my blood pressure goes upwards. Drastically upwards. That's the physical side of it. The mental part makes you want to leave. It is classic fight or flight response. Many of us forgo needed medical attention because of this weird blood pressure thing. Going many years at a stretch with zero health care encounters is not at all uncommon among us. I went almost a decade one time years back. Had self purchased insurance the entire time. Was just in case I needed it. Turns out, I didn't. Ha.

To answer you both, I have read countless studies on this affliction. Countless. As gwhap mentioned, there are those that do not even know they have it. I tend to rank that as more effect than syndrome. I think most everyone has a slight rise in BP in a clinical setting. Maybe imperceptible so far as self reported anxiety. And those folks are where the 20% to one of the first studies done on this showed 30% of cohort showed a WC Effect. May have been you, iamweasel . Your blood pressure goes up a bit walking in, but so far as any real anxiety, not enough for you to notice. Now, it has been suggested and gwhap mentioned this as well. Does the WC Hypertensive have these spikes in everyday living? So. For me. I don't ever get that nervous, mad, scared, what so ever, day to day, as what a clinic visit does. The only other times I can think of that I feel the same way in clinic is minutes before I am scheduled to speak in front of a large audience. Say….Singing the National Anthem at The Super Bowl. Live. I'm not kidding. They have even done studies to test that very theory. The results of us WCH were nearly identical to putting us on a stage in front of our entire home town. For the WCH, I want to say our response to such was slightly more pronounced than the normo, or hypertensive subjects. So, for me? Not even close.

One more thing I'll mention. A study early on…Was just the 80's that Thomas Pickering, M.D. actually coined the term “White Coat Hypertension”, though Rivva Rocci first mentioned some subjects become excited when measuring their blood pressure, way back in the early 1900's. He suggested handing them some sheet music or some such to take their mind off of the task at hand. Hmmm….I doubt that worked then, and it sure wouldn't work for me, now. If only it were that simple. An early study suggested that WCH could be no more than 20mmHg Systolic and 10mmHg Diastolic, rise in BP from a 24H awake daily average BP to a cuff measured BP taken manually, in clinic. Shoot. My systolic can easily climb 40 points from normal. I think those numbers are not used for basis anymore. I just got a kick out of it thinking that lady certainly doesn't suffer this affliction. Anyone that does, knows those numbers are a walk in the park to beat.

Thanks for responding. It's a fascinating subject to me, despite the craziness of it.

My Pediatrician was a kind and decent devout catholic who grew up in my neighborhood. Regretfully due to some minor health issues I had to see other doctors who lacked my doctor's bedside manner. To this day I have minor WCS. I used to be far worse.

Great topic.

I used to get like that, up until I was 35 or 37, I think. Definitely white-coat syndrome. I checked. When I was at the doctor's, my BP was 140/100 and my heart raced, but when I measured my BP at home it was always 120/80 or thereabouts. I've been a cardiophile ever since I can remember, by the way.

But it hasn't happened to me over the last 10 years at least. Perhaps it's new-found confidence, as I've started exercising much more regularly and more intensely. Perhaps something else.

However, I always get the jitters when my significant other has a scheduled doctor's visit. It riles me up, it gets me extremely horny, even a week before the exam.

Have a great weekend, everyone.