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It is recommended to get your BP Device calibrated annually by the manufacturer or it's accredited agent.

3 hours ago, Sheryl said:

Therd are many factors that can give higher than usual reading in a health care setting:

1. Anxiety ("white coat syndrome") or pain, coughing or sneezing

2. Reading done when not really at rest e.g. immediately upon arrival. If you think this was an issue, ask them to wait 10 minutes or so. Or, if hesitant to do that, then rest yourself a while outside the room first before going in.

3. Using wrong size cuff. Very common. Most farang need a larger cuff than is usually used.

4. Uncalibrated machines.

Home reading done at same time each day is most reliable provided the machine is reliable. As others have mentioned, Omron brand is good.

Note that BP is not stagnant, it fluctuates and that is normal.

I've also had nurses in hospital place the cuff on my right arm.

22 minutes ago, Nurf said:

I've also had nurses in hospital place the cuff on my right arm.

Does it matter, left or right ?

3 minutes ago, Ralf001 said:

Does it matter, left or right ?

Well, I googled it for you or used AI. Actually this is correct the right side is the better side although it is recommended that both sides may used

I'm incorrect. Using left side certainly isn't damaging or wholly incorrect but it appears that the right side is the more correct side

Absent soecific pathology, blood pressure should be the ssme on both sides. Doesn't matter which is used in a normal person.

3 hours ago, Sheryl said:

Absent specific pathology, blood pressure should be the same on both sides. Doesn't matter which is used in a normal person.

Thats exactly what my cardiologists have told me, both in BKK and in the USA. Both reccomended Omron monitors

I have been using a microlife blood pressure monitor for many years, very reliable and accurate

6 hours ago, seajae said:

I have been using a microlife blood pressure monitor for many years, very reliable and accurate

Did you get it calibrated? And how often?

If not, how can you know about it's reliability & accuracy?

17 hours ago, ravip said:

Did you get it calibrated? And how often?

If not, how can you know about it's reliability & accuracy?

I have my blood pressure checked regularly at the local clinic and at the hospital, unless they both have inaccurate monitors mine gives the same/very close results daily and occassionally high readings(why I got it) before I need to go to either of them to be checked over. It is doing exactly what I bought it for, to monitor my blood pressure to guard against very high readings and it does the job very well, readings match the clinic/hospital readings when I go in to them, it does exactly what it is meant to, to let me know when my blood pressure jumps high or drops to low

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