RE: Blood pressure
The nurse makes the sleeve too tight when she takes my blood pressure. Makes it go high.
My nurse does this, too! I complain about it every time. It hurts! Glad to know I’m not the only one. It’s not just “all in my head.”
Tight squeeze on the sleeve: Would you describe your arms as having higher than typical muscle tension? IE, are you in good physical shape, maybe trained a lot? My own regular quack can’t get a meaningful BP reading on me to save his butt. The first attempt blows the top off his sphygmomanometer.
I have my own machine which can take three in a row, then give the average, or the last. It takes the first two squeezes to get my arm muscle softened up enough to actually squeeze a blood vessel. In my training days I could dead lift close to 1,000 pounds and much of that muscle tension is still there.
Because I’m a pilot, in part, I get regular physicals. No health problems, no nothing, but I like to watch for changes. I’m in way better shape than the Quack is so , mostly, he just shrugs and signs me off. But getting a meaningful BP reading on someone in good shape takes a little more work than the average pill peddler is ready for.
That is what happens to me also, they put that cuff really tight.
I always ask that they put it on my right arm.
The nurse makes the sleeve too tight when she takes my blood pressure. Makes it go high."
Exactly! The last time I had my BP taken the cuff left a bruise! I keep trying to get them to understand that when it hurts my pressure goes high! I try to get them to use a child's cuff on my wrist or at the very least a wide cuff.