Re: David Cohen - blood pressure cuff advice?

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>> I need to start monitoring my blood pressure at home. It was 150/100
>> on
>> friday, my highest ever. If it goes any higher we're going to have to
>> put me on more medication to lower it. Given my platelet count, I'm
>> really not liking having blood pressure this high. My doctors were
>> worried about bleeding with blood pressure increses during exercise
>> before all these treatments when my blood pressure was 100/60, so I'm
>> REALLY not comfortable at this point and I need more than a bi-weekly
>> reading in the doctor's office (I'm in for blood tests twice weekly,
>> but
>> the nurses are often too busy to take my blood pressure). So: what
>> should I look for in buying a blood pressure cuff for home? They have
>> these automatic ones that cost about $100 dollars here, available
>> from
>> most pharmacies. I haven't had very good luck with the digital
>> thermometers sold at pharmacies, though, so I thought I'd ask around
>> a
>> bit before buying the cuff (but only a little bit, I need to get this
>> thing soon if only for psychological relief).
>
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> Well, I'm not David, but I do own a home sphygmometer (an impressive
> word to
> work into a conversation). It's an Omron HEM-703CP, which has been
> accurate.
> They do recommend bringing it into your doctor's office to calibrate.
> http://www.drbloodpressure.com/self-measurement/blood-pressure-5.shtml

I've got an Omron, too and like it. Wrist model don't work well for me
but this one has a cuff that goes in the same place the doctor uses, the
upper arm.

For anyone who's concerned with their blood pressure in the doctor's
office, get the Omron or similar and take your BP twice a day for two
weeks and average out all the numbers. Many people get "white coat
syndrome" - higher BP reading in the doctor's office. My wife has this
and every time she sees a new doctor, she gets asked to do this and
bring in the results, which are always perfectly normal, so she's never
been put on medication.

In some cases, they'll fit you with a harness that takes readings every
half hour or so all day and night. My Dad recently had this done. You
wear the thing for 24 hours, take it back to the doc, and they download
the readings.

-S-
http://www.kbnj.com


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>> http://www.marrow.org/
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