Blood pressure monitor

[RuthB]

Am on medication for high blood pressure, and just back from an appointment with my diabetes nurse. She recommends I get a blood pressure monitor so I can get better readings at home (as opposed to the one off readings every 3 months with her). I have bought one recently, but I am very fat and the cuff doesn't really fit so it's not realy working. Do you have any recommendations of where I can buy (cheaply) a blood pressure monitor with a cuff big enough to go round my fat arms please?! Ta

 

[Madeline]

Personally I’d go to somewhere like Boots or Lloyd’s, and get one of their own brands.

 

[Bruce Stephens]

Personally I’d go to somewhere like Boots or Lloyd’s, and get one of their own brands.

And take it along the next time you go to the nurse or doctor for a blood pressure check so you can compare it.

 

[Madeline]

And take it along the next time you go to the nurse or doctor for a blood pressure check so you can compare it.

Really good idea!

 

[grovesy]

Am on medication for high blood pressure, and just back from an appointment with my diabetes nurse. She recommends I get a blood pressure monitor so I can get better readings at home (as opposed to the one off readings every 3 months with her). I have bought one recently, but I am very fat and the cuff doesn't really fit so it's not realy working. Do you have any recommendations of where I can buy (cheaply) a blood pressure monitor with a cuff big enough to go round my fat arms please?! Ta

Have you checked the companies website to see of they do separate larger cuffs for your machine?

 

[mikeyB]

It depends on the make of reader that you have. You should be able to order a wider cuff rather than buy a whole new machine. I know Omron do this. The cuff should be wider and longer, because you won’t get accurate readings with a standard cuff.

 

[mikeydt1]

consider a wrist type one, a lot easier to use and easier to put on than the arm ones. i have had one for a good few years and it is as accurate as the doctors ones, good job as sometimes they want me to use my own.

 

[trophywench]

Wrist ones have not had a good reputation for accuracy.

 

[Becka]

When my surgery said I should get a meter to test myself, they sent me the following link of clinically validated machines. They are mostly upper arm, but do include some wrist ones.

For Home Use - British and Irish Hypertension Society | Registered UK Charity No. 287635

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bihsoc.org

But in the first instance, I agree with grovesy to check the manufacturer of the monitor you bought. You can get smaller and larger sized cuff to the ones included, and that should be cheaper than a whole new meter.

Also, the prices ranges on that list are wrong. I bought one listed as under £100 for about £20.

 

[Drummer]

The one I have was on the shelf with three or four different sized cuffs beside it - it came with one for average sized arms, with smaller and larger ones available - it was at a Lloyds pharmacy.

 

[Totalwar]

I got mine from Amazon works great and get ones with large cuff Which I had to get.

SIMBR Upper Arm Blood Pressure Monitor for Home Use with Large Cuff, Digital Electric Sphygmomanometer BP Tester Machine Meters, 2 User Modes Each with 90 Memory Capacity: Amazon.co.uk: Health & Personal Care

SIMBR Upper Arm Blood Pressure Monitor for Home Use with Large Cuff, Digital Electric Sphygmomanometer BP Tester Machine Meters, 2 User Modes Each with 90 Memory Capacity: Amazon.co.uk: Health & Personal Care

www.amazon.co.uk