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Do You Use a Sphygmomanometer at Home?
p3skyking
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A BP cuff.
I take an active part in maintaining my good health and had a manual one for years up until the bulb quit pumping. Then I got one of the automatic ones that gives BP and pulse rate.
I'm glad I did.
Woke up Thursday at 0430 with a little acid reflux. Decided to stay up. Started getting chills and disorientation. Put on the cuff and pushed a button. BP 179/90, pulse rate 102. Chills and shakes, thermometer wouldn't read but I knew I had fever.
I had gotten a tennis elbow drained on Monday so I figured I had sepsis from the readings. Loaded up my laptop, wish I had loaded my CPAP machine, and went to the ER.
Explained to the doc what I thought I had. He ran some blood tests and confirmed it, admitted me to the hospital. 24 hours of IV antibiotics and released me Friday morning.
I could not have taken my BP with the old cuff. Too shakey. Would not have known pulse rate. Take your own CPAP if you have one. Hospital doesn't have them. Made do with O2.
Don't be scared to learn about your body. We're all going to die one day and knowing how to keep yourself healthy will delay it. If that's what you want.
I take an active part in maintaining my good health and had a manual one for years up until the bulb quit pumping. Then I got one of the automatic ones that gives BP and pulse rate.
I'm glad I did.
Woke up Thursday at 0430 with a little acid reflux. Decided to stay up. Started getting chills and disorientation. Put on the cuff and pushed a button. BP 179/90, pulse rate 102. Chills and shakes, thermometer wouldn't read but I knew I had fever.
I had gotten a tennis elbow drained on Monday so I figured I had sepsis from the readings. Loaded up my laptop, wish I had loaded my CPAP machine, and went to the ER.
Explained to the doc what I thought I had. He ran some blood tests and confirmed it, admitted me to the hospital. 24 hours of IV antibiotics and released me Friday morning.
I could not have taken my BP with the old cuff. Too shakey. Would not have known pulse rate. Take your own CPAP if you have one. Hospital doesn't have them. Made do with O2.
Don't be scared to learn about your body. We're all going to die one day and knowing how to keep yourself healthy will delay it. If that's what you want.
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A BP cuff.
I take an active part in maintaining my good health and had a manual one for years up until the bulb quit pumping. Then I got one of the automatic ones that gives BP and pulse rate.
I'm glad I did.
Woke up Thursday at 0430 with a little acid reflux. Decided to stay up. Started getting chills and disorientation. Put on the cuff and pushed a button. BP 179/90, pulse rate 102. Chills and shakes, thermometer wouldn't read but I knew I had fever.
I had gotten a tennis elbow drained on Monday so I figured I had sepsis from the readings. Loaded up my laptop, wish I had loaded my CPAP machine, and went to the ER.
Explained to the doc what I thought I had. He ran some blood tests and confirmed it, admitted me to the hospital. 24 hours of IV antibiotics and released me Friday morning.
I could not have taken my BP with the old cuff. Too shakey. Would not have known pulse rate. Take your own CPAP if you have one. Hospital doesn't have them. Made do with O2.
Don't be scared to learn about your body. We're all going to die one day and knowing how to keep yourself healthy will delay it. If that's what you want.
P3,
I own one, and used to use it (was told to use it,) religiously prior to my first Heart surgery.
It is a state of the art unit.
I need to locate it, and start using it again.
I am glad you isolated and correctly diagnosed, your issue prior to serious consequences.
It pays to be vigilant.
Glad you are okay.
-Ken-
That "ignorance is bliss" is bulls#it.
I think the next tool I'm gonna get is the O2 saturation meter. I already have the blood sugar meter. It can save you a trip to the ER or morgue.
84, Best of luck to you on your procedure. You'll do fine. It's amazing what Doc can do now. I just wish the nanobots would hurry up and get online.[8D]
I am not worried about my outcome on this particular go around.
I've been through it before.
Quite a few advances have been made, since 2005. (Unfortunately, no Nano-bots as of yet.)
I'm hopeful for a Spasmcreek, Cath Valve roll out implementation.
I've got my fingers crossed.
Again, thank you for the kind words.
-Ken-
I am glad you folks are doing that. Hurting and not knowing why is one of the scariest feelings there is.
That "ignorance is bliss" is bulls#it.
I think the next tool I'm gonna get is the O2 saturation meter. I already have the blood sugar meter. It can save you a trip to the ER or morgue.
84, Best of luck to you on your procedure. You'll do fine. It's amazing what Doc can do now. I just wish the nanobots would hurry up and get online.[8D]
Been using one of these for years. Actually made by a medical diagnostics company, and guaranteed accurate unlike some of the super cheapos on Amazon, and elsewhere.
http://www.nonin.com/Finger-Pulse-Oximeter/Nonin-GO2-Achieve
So curious what do you see on BP with A fib? I could google it but I will let ya'll tell me
A lot of the electronic ones have an arrhythmia detector built in.
So I bought an Omron unit and use it at home. Sure enough, the first few times I used it, the numbers went up. But with regular use, I've gotten that "Oh, crap" pre-test rise to calm (or clam) down. I still always do two tests, about five minutes apart, and the second one is almost always lower. The last time was 139/75 and then 122/76.
...same problem last Sunday Mike....You go to Thomas? or some where in Mobile?
North Baldwin. It's only ten minutes away if I drive fast.