Posted on 01/12/2018 9:03:44 AM PST by Signalman
My blood pressure changes every time i see the words “democrat” “Rino” or GOPe in a sentence...
Dittos.
This is a really good article. Thanks for posting it.
BP is RACIS!....................
MINE GOES UP AS i SURF THRU THE CHANNELS AND TEMPORARILY STOP ON CNN OR MSNBC......AND SOMETIMES FOX...........
Thanks for this post. Very useful information. I have noticed that when a blood pressure cuff is tightened enough to actually hurt my arm, the blood pressure reading is higher than if the cuff is tightened only to the point of being very snug but not painful. I think very tight cuffs give an inaccurate reading, but it seems to be common these days to tighten them until they hurt.
bmp
Bring on global warming!
I had the same feeling about some automatic machine a hospital used on me twice a couple of weeks apart. Their readings were way high, maybe 150. My doctor and his nurses use a stethoscope and a manually inflated/deflated cuff and always get me around 120, two of those times were in between those hospital measurements.
ML/NJ
They tighten them so tight on me I’m up outta the chair and literally crying. And they wonder why my bp is so high.
I use the drugstore machine. You have to take it several times. You will see it “normalize...usually by the 3rd reading and then it will be consistent for additional readings.
Daily liberal residual effect
The missed one. “Effects on blood pressure when being tested by nurse with big boobs (brushing against arm)”. Last time my blood pressure tested high.
Sometimes I am in the presence of aholes, other times I’m not
I’ve wondered how the body senses its blood pressure and adjusts things (heart rate, constrictions of arteries and veins) in response to the pressure it senses.
I’ve also wondered if the body knows the volume of blood at a given time. Does the body adjust the amount of blood being created based on conditions it senses? Certainly if the amount of blood is increased, the blood pressure will go up.
I have noticed that when a blood pressure cuff is tightened enough to actually hurt my arm, the blood pressure reading is higher than if the cuff is tightened only to the point of being very snug but not painful.
I wouldn’t be surprised if the cuff binding your arm too tightly rises your anxiety which increases blood pressure.
Not funny my Dr’s blonde curly haired good natured nurse assistant is cause for a twenty point rise in my BP.
i’m end stage kidney failure and on dialysis. I have to take my pressure daily. I go the drs once a month for blood work etc. Generally some 3 hours from taking pressure at home to having it taken at drs. I have gone from say 130/85 to 85/68 by the time i got to the drs. Walking, not eating. They have to treat me at the drs when its that low. At times it drops in minutes like that and i go right out. Boom. sweating, disorientated and the floor rushing up to my face.
i’m end stage kidney failure and on dialysis. I have to take my pressure daily. I go the drs once a month for blood work etc. Generally some 3 hours from taking pressure at home to having it taken at drs. I have gone from say 130/85 to 85/68 by the time i got to the drs. Walking, not eating. They have to treat me at the drs when its that low. At times it drops in minutes like that and i go right out. Boom. sweating, disorientated and the floor rushing up to my face.
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