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Post by Fisch on Sept 5, 2024 11:45:00 GMT
I'm not alone in being a bit 'obsolete' here in Mungoland so l thought I'd pass on something l learnt recently.
Taking your own blood pressure with a home machine is a great way to head off problems before they become real problems. What l didn't know is that there are many mistakes you can make doing this and then you end up with the completely wrong diagnosis and a fair bit of stress added in. There's plenty of YouTube videis which put me straight and brought my results much more consistency (thus more value) and considerably lower. HTH
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Post by mrb on Sept 5, 2024 12:31:16 GMT
I have an OMRON blood pressure machine,and take my BP every other day 👍🏾
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Post by mrb on Sept 5, 2024 12:32:53 GMT
I'm not alone in being a bit 'obsolete' here in Mungoland so l thought I'd pass on something l learnt recently. Taking your own blood pressure with a home machine is a great way to head off problems before they become real problems. What l didn't know is that there are many mistakes you can make doing this and then you end up with the completely wrong diagnosis and a fair bit of stress added in. There's plenty of YouTube videis which put me straight and brought my results much more consistency (thus more value) and considerably lower. HTH So after viewing it on YouTube,were your results different? Bearing in mind it can fluctuate anyway |
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Post by redshank on Sept 5, 2024 12:56:26 GMT
Best not to take your own blood pressure when Orient lose.Every so often I am asked by my surgery to submit my own blood pressure readings,now they do not even supply the printed DCP page.I have given them in many times and little if any notice is taken.
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Post by mrb on Sept 5, 2024 12:59:33 GMT
Best not to take your own blood pressure when Orient lose.Every so often I am asked by my surgery to submit my own blood pressure readings,now they do not even supply the printed DCP page.I have given them in many times and little if any notice is taken. And it’s worse in the manner we lose!!😄 |
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Post by redshank on Sept 5, 2024 13:08:52 GMT
Best not to take your own blood pressure when Orient lose.Every so often I am asked by my surgery to submit my own blood pressure readings,now they do not even supply the printed DCP page.I have given them in many times and little if any notice is taken. And it’s worse in the manner we lose!!😄 As Fluff Freeman would say,not arf.Freezing cold night games being the worst and trying to sleep. |
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Post by redshank on Sept 5, 2024 13:14:30 GMT
As a side step fisch a video keeps popping up on you tube of the England-Poland World Cup qualifier in 1973.It is titled Englands football fall from grace.Welded well into my memory as we watched the game in a hotel in Dubrovnik with a hostile Icelandic group and just us two English.They loved the result and we were as low as any England fan could be.
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Post by dennisrofe on Sept 5, 2024 13:14:54 GMT
I'm not alone in being a bit 'obsolete' here in Mungoland so l thought I'd pass on something l learnt recently. Taking your own blood pressure with a home machine is a great way to head off problems before they become real problems. What l didn't know is that there are many mistakes you can make doing this and then you end up with the completely wrong diagnosis and a fair bit of stress added in. There's plenty of YouTube videis which put me straight and brought my results much more consistency (thus more value) and considerably lower. HTH I am not a good patient especially anything to do with blood tests etc. Anyway when I first started getting high blood pressure after being made redundant 1n 2010, I found it hard to have the courage to take my own blood pressure, especially when the results were too high and scared me. After going onto blood pressure tablets the blood pressure went down a lot and does not worry me now doing it anymore. I find the first time I take it its a bit high, then do it again and it comes down a bit, then do it again and its around 125/75 to 80. Getting tensed up in a doctors or hospital often happens to me and is know as ''White Coat Syndrome'' or ''White coat hypertension'' and is the term for when you get a high blood pressure reading in a doctor's office and a normal reading at home. |
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Post by redshank on Sept 5, 2024 13:23:37 GMT
I'm not alone in being a bit 'obsolete' here in Mungoland so l thought I'd pass on something l learnt recently. Taking your own blood pressure with a home machine is a great way to head off problems before they become real problems. What l didn't know is that there are many mistakes you can make doing this and then you end up with the completely wrong diagnosis and a fair bit of stress added in. There's plenty of YouTube videis which put me straight and brought my results much more consistency (thus more value) and considerably lower. HTH I am not a good patient especially anything to do with blood tests etc. Anyway when I first started getting high blood pressure after being made redundant 1n 2010, I found it hard to have the courage to take my own blood pressure, especially when the results were too high and scared me. After going onto blood pressure tablets the blood pressure went down a lot and does not worry me now doing it anymore. I find the first time I take it its a bit high, then do it again and it comes down a bit, then do it again and its around 125/75 to 80. Getting tensed up in a doctors or hospital often happens to me and is know as ''White Coat Syndrome'' or ''White coat hypertension'' and is the term for when you get a high blood pressure reading in a doctor's office and a normal reading at home. I have that white coat problem so they take two or three and take the result from that.I think the advice now is to take two yourself and present the second reading.I have one with around the top of the arm and one that you wear on the wrist.I might just take a look at the readings from both machines.The maker also tells you to get the GP to calibrate the right reading of the machine,I tried that but they was not at all interested in doing so. |
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Post by redshank on Sept 5, 2024 13:25:25 GMT
I have an OMRON blood pressure machine,and take my BP every other day 👍🏾 Is that for your own satisfaction or a GP request. |
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Post by mrb on Sept 5, 2024 13:35:07 GMT
I have an OMRON blood pressure machine,and take my BP every other day 👍🏾 Is that for your own satisfaction or a GP request. My own |
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Post by dennisrofe on Sept 5, 2024 14:02:05 GMT
I have an OMRON blood pressure machine,and take my BP every other day 👍🏾 Is that for your own satisfaction or a GP request. Mine is also a basic Omron machine. I take a test about once a month, mostly always around the same results. |
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Post by Fisch on Sept 5, 2024 14:10:40 GMT
By way of comparison. I took my BP a few times with legs crossed, the collar too tight, my arm below my heart height and no head rest. It averaged out at about 160/95 with a pulse of 59.
I followed this up with emptying my bladder, my feet flat on the floor, the collar loose enough to get two fingers in (say what!!!), my arm resting on cushions at mid-chest height and my head at rest against a headrest/cushion.
All 4 tests were around 120/72 with a pulse still at 59.
I tried to keep everything else the same.
I think the results reveal a lot about how you do the test.
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Post by redshank on Sept 5, 2024 16:47:58 GMT
My pulse is always high,or what I think is high but health workers don't seem bothered.
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Post by dennisrofe on Sept 5, 2024 17:12:08 GMT
By way of comparison. I took my BP a few times with legs crossed, the collar too tight, my arm below my heart height and no head rest. It averaged out at about 160/95 with a pulse of 59. I followed this up with emptying my bladder, my feet flat on the floor, the collar loose enough to get two fingers in (say what!!!), my arm resting on cushions at mid-chest height and my head at rest against a headrest/cushion. All 4 tests were around 120/72 with a pulse still at 59. I tried to keep everything else the same. I think the results reveal a lot about how you do the test. sit on an upright chair with a back. place your feet flat on the floor. rest your arm on a table and relax your hand and arm. wear something with short sleeves so the cuff does not go over clothes. relax, breathe normally and do not talk during the test. More items...https://www.nhs.uk/health-assessment-tools/check-your-blood-pressure-reading |
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Post by mrb on Sept 5, 2024 18:18:25 GMT
By way of comparison. I took my BP a few times with legs crossed, the collar too tight, my arm below my heart height and no head rest. It averaged out at about 160/95 with a pulse of 59. I followed this up with emptying my bladder, my feet flat on the floor, the collar loose enough to get two fingers in (say what!!!), my arm resting on cushions at mid-chest height and my head at rest against a headrest/cushion. All 4 tests were around 120/72 with a pulse still at 59. I tried to keep everything else the same. I think the results reveal a lot about how you do the test. sit on an upright chair with a back. place your feet flat on the floor. rest your arm on a table and relax your hand and arm. wear something with short sleeves so the cuff does not go over clothes. relax, breathe normally and do not talk during the test. More items...https://www.nhs.uk/health-assessment-tools/check-your-blood-pressure-reading Does it mention not clenching your fist? |
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Post by Fisch on Sept 5, 2024 18:43:33 GMT
Does it mention not clenching your fist? why would you do that? That's only useful for swelling a blood vessel to make it easier to take blood out ...isn't it? |
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Post by mrb on Sept 5, 2024 18:45:18 GMT
Does it mention not clenching your fist? why would you do that? That's only useful for swelling a blood vessel to make it easier to take blood out ...isn't it? Just makes you relax even more Also,according to my daughter who’s a phlebotomist,a clenched fist affects the potassium and may not give an accurate reading |
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Post by Fisch on Sept 5, 2024 18:56:25 GMT
why would you do that? That's only useful for swelling a blood vessel to make it easier to take blood out ...isn't it? Just makes you relax even more Also,according to my daughter who’s a phlebotomist,a clenched fist affects the potassium and may not give an accurate reading I yield to the board's consultant phlebotomist  |
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Post by mrb on Sept 5, 2024 18:59:17 GMT
Just makes you relax even more Also,according to my daughter who’s a phlebotomist,a clenched fist affects the potassium and may not give an accurate reading I yield to the board's consultant phlebotomist 😂😂not me fisch..However In my job (personal trainer) I regularly do blood pressure reading and alway get client to leave their hands open..But I guess people do things differently 👍🏾 |
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