the fuck is up with those blood pressure machines

[MWOS]

I had two doctors appts today

8:45am, BP machine: 137/66

3:30pm, BP by hand: 120/80

what the fuck that robot wants me dead

[bonquiqui]

bitches be crazy

[Ohhmm(bligo)]

I wish I had the skillz to photoshop the machine/you scenario on your signature cats.

[emjacobs]

My BP by machine is always way different, I also feel like they put the cuff on tighter for those and it makes me feel like my eyes are going to pop out when it inflates.

[emjacobs]

Nov 12, 2013 17:55:43 GMT -5 littleduck said:

Nov 12, 2013 17:49:46 GMT -5 emjacobs said:

My BP by machine is always way different, I also feel like they put the cuff on tighter for those and it makes me feel like my eyes are going to pop out when it inflates.

Yes! Same. 

My office usually does hand bp readings but I was in one of the newly renovated rooms and they did it via machine, the nurse said my bp and commented that it was pretty high and my doctor made her redo it by hand because I traditionally have rather low bp.  The doc came in and unplugged the machine when she came in to talk.  That's an awfully expensive, and not too pretty, art sculpture. 

[lime]

I always, always read high on the machines. I participated in a long term medical study and they were consistently very different.

I ask for a hand bp every time I get checked.

[MWOS]

Nov 12, 2013 18:31:36 GMT -5 lime said:

I always, always read high on the machines. I participated in a long term medical study and they were consistently very different.

I ask for a hand bp every time I get checked.

I get so many of these when I ask for it by hand:  

[lime]

Yeah, I get the eye rolls, too. I just say thanks and smile and that usually guilts people into doing it.

[Redpoppy]

The bp machine was the reason I wanted an epidural so early. My bp wasn't high from labor pains but from pains from the damn bp cuff. It hurt so bad I was breathing through the measurements.

[meemz]

Your bp can also fluctuate through out the day. I would bring in your bp machine the next time you go and have them take it with yours and by hand to see if it is working properly.

[meemz]

Whoops sorry. I just realized it wasn't your machine.

[sparkythelawyer]

Nov 12, 2013 18:33:02 GMT -5 MWOS said:

Nov 12, 2013 18:31:36 GMT -5 lime said:

I always, always read high on the machines. I participated in a long term medical study and they were consistently very different.

I ask for a hand bp every time I get checked.

I get so many of these when I ask for it by hand:  

This sounds oddly kinky :-)

[MWOS]

Nov 12, 2013 18:51:08 GMT -5 meemz said:

Your bp can also fluctuate through out the day. I would bring in your bp machine the next time you go and have them take it with yours and by hand to see if it is working properly.

I'm also whatever is beyond 1909833493% positive that my actual blood pressure was never 137/66

[marylennox]

When I worked in healthcare the automatic cuffs were really frowned upon by most of the older or more experienced nurses because they are pretty much never accurate. The nurse aides were always the ones doing the eye roll and would use the machine anyway. I think many of them never learned efficiently how to take bp by hand or were just nervous to try so they just fall back on using the machine. It's dumb.