What did she recommend? How high was it? What's your family history of heart disease?
Whatever the answers are to these things, the first thing I did when I got that news was buy an at-home meter, to keep track of patterns over the time of day, how much was white-coat, and so on.
You can lower your salt intake, you can get on medication, you can try to be more active. All of those things will help at least somewhat. And then just keep watching.
If it were serious s/he would've put you on meds.
14 years