Completely anecdotal, but very infrequent checks of my blood pressure over the years would always flag high and it would always be written off as a temporary stress spike at getting it taken. Otherwise I was completely healthy and had no complaints so it was ignored.
It turns out that I had crisis levels of hypertension for years, and all of those aberrant readings were actually my normal. When I finally got it diagnosed and treated -- purely thinking it might relate to sporadic mid-sleep headaches/sicknesses [1] -- discovered that years in that state had pushed my kidneys to the cusp of kidney disease, which is something that doesn't heal.
Check your blood pressure regularly. Get an Omron unit and it even logs it into a little app. Treat it early because the damage accumulates for decades.
[1] That turned out to be a newly developed absolute intolerance for alcohol. A single beer or glass of wine with dinner would have me sick all night.
It turns out that I had crisis levels of hypertension for years, and all of those aberrant readings were actually my normal. When I finally got it diagnosed and treated -- purely thinking it might relate to sporadic mid-sleep headaches/sicknesses [1] -- discovered that years in that state had pushed my kidneys to the cusp of kidney disease, which is something that doesn't heal.
Check your blood pressure regularly. Get an Omron unit and it even logs it into a little app. Treat it early because the damage accumulates for decades.
[1] That turned out to be a newly developed absolute intolerance for alcohol. A single beer or glass of wine with dinner would have me sick all night.