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.
Re: blood pressure
I was using a cuff that auto-inflates but had to stop because it hurt so much that my BP was always too high.
I bought a wrist cuff and when used right, it’s very accurate. I prop my elbow on a pillow to get it at heart level and it’s as accurate, or more accurate, than the arm cuff type.
When the home health people were coming to see my husband, they were skeptical of my wrist unit. We checked them several times against each other and mine was always the same as their arm cuff. After that, they had me recheck their cuff against my wrist unit when they doubted their cuff. LOL
With most doctors you are spitting in the wind to make them understand but nurses are easier to reason with if a doctor isn’t looking over their shoulder.