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measuring blood pressure at home
Henry0Reilly
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I was given a device that goes over the wrist but the darn thing seems to have quite a bit of variation from one arm to the other taken back to back.
I'm hoping to avoid using medication and lower my risk through better diet, more exercise, getting down to 125% of my boot camp weight (which means losing 50 #)and stopping smoking (again) but I am trying to establish a baseline to see how I'm progressing.
I'm hoping to avoid using medication and lower my risk through better diet, more exercise, getting down to 125% of my boot camp weight (which means losing 50 #)and stopping smoking (again) but I am trying to establish a baseline to see how I'm progressing.
I used to recruit for the NRA until they sold us down the river (again!) in Heller v. DC. See my auctions (if any) under username henryreilly
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Log your pressures and heart rate 3x a day, morning, mid day and night. Keep them logged in 3 separate columns so it is easy to see the trends. Don't take your pressure over and over, there is no need. If you get a reading that seems odd repeat that.
Take your log with you when you see your doctor.
But I too have different reading from Left and right and they stay Constant. My Doc had me checked and its not enough to worry about.
I check my BP about every two weeks. I always check it twice, because the second one is almost always lower. That "cuff anxiety" thing lessens over time. When I first started (or in the Dr office) it is something like 150/90. At home, I feel less anxiety about the test, and my readings go from 144/83 to 122/76.
The wrist ones are notoriously variable....
^^ This ^^
Had a Dr. office that used one. My BP was always way higher there than anywhere else.
My doctor checked my blood pressure and said it was high. I told him you should have checked it before I sit in the waiting room for over an hour and a half because it was perfectly normal then. [:(!]
...you got "White Coat Pressure".....LOL!