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[JD_Tiberius]

Hi I'm about to reapply with a different POE, but last year when I took my medical check I had an elevated blood pressure of 140/70. Its not strictly high blood pressure because the diastolic pressure is in the healthy range but regardless of that its on my results of my medical check from last year. At the time I did the medical checkup I had only been in the country for a few weeks and was pretty stressed(and I have a huge fear of hospitals, so my blood pressure sits abnormally high whenever I go there).

Ive taken my BP at machines in post offices and subways several times since then and it has always been in the normal range. Still, should I mention this to my new recruiter or on the application form? My biggest fear obviously is that it peaks at that again on the next test I take because of my hospital-phobia and the new POE finds out last years results and fires me for lying on my form.

[Fishead soup]

High blood pressure is no big deal in Korea. Your best bet is to lose some weight and lay off the boze for a while and your blood pressure will go back to normal

[JD_Tiberius]

Gyeongnam POE freaked out about it back in September/October as if it was something serious. Again, my blood pressure is relatively normal on most days. Just stress and worries tend to drive it up and hospitals always bring that out in me.

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[JD_Tiberius]

I asked for medication from the doctor after the POE made a huge fuss about it(including threatening to fire me, which had a lovely effect on my BP as you can quite imagine!) but the doctor said no and laughed telling me it was nothing to worry about.

I think, my biggest fear is them being able to access my previous health check which was handed to immi. that little blip on it, no matter how small it is, would be evidence that I had a "high" BP at some point.

[ED209]

It's supposed to be your resting BP. But often you are rushed around these hospitals. Make sure you sit down for a good 10mins before doing the test, and not having just run up two flights of stairs.

[young_clinton]

Unless I'm completely relaxed and lying down my BP is usually high and stays high, but my BP is normal. When i went for the physical as usual it read high. Nobody at the school gave a ****, the co-teacher waved the doctor off when he tried to tell me to come back and have it checked.

[young_clinton]

[JD_Tiberius]

its diastolic pressure that they used to ignore from what I gather. At the time when I tried to explain to my co-teacher that the diastolic number was important for young people, she refused to believe me and insisted that the only number that mattered was the systolic pressure. The POE held the same view too from what I gather, and as a result left me stuck getting LOLed at by the doctors for asking for BP meds because my co-teacher thought it might be a good idea.

[Fishead soup]

Do you have a girlfriend that you eventially plan to marry.
If you do then go for it. F-2 Visa's are way better. No medical check up.Easy to change jobs.

Don't go on those school groups hospital visits. I did it once. They have absolutly no sence of privacy. Everyone lining up to do things people gossiping about everything. People giggling when the foreigner gets on the weight scale Regardless of how convenient it seems. Don't go on these things your health will be an open book.

[marsavalanche]

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