Home blood pressure monitors?

[Feek]

Are they any good?

Specifically this, this or this (I get 20% discount on Boots products).

I've heard that upper arm monitors are considered more accurate than wrist, is that true?

It's something I feel I'd like to keep a track of - I appreciate that they probably won't be as accurate as clinically approved devices but it's like anything, as long as they give consistent readings then that's the best that can be expected.

 

[Cookeh]

To be honest, I would get a sphygmomanometer over a dynamap - I cant attest for the quality or accuracy of cheap dynamats. A sphygmomanometer, if you learn how to use it correctly (far from rocket science), is a good bet - we still use them in hospitals as they have niches and advantages over the dynamaps.

Not that it matters with a sphygmomanometer, but yes, upper arm is more accurate.

 

[mattyg]

I know its probably out of budget but I got this
http://www.boots.com/en/Omron-MIT-E...ssure-Monitor-with-download-facility_1125223/

I now just connect it to my laptop print off a months worth of checks and take to the GP who checks me again with his BP checker thingy and confirms that he believes mine to be very accurate and he gets a month or more on a nice graph in front of him.

 

[kefan77]

family member uses this

http://www.boots.com/en/Omron-M3-Intellisense-Upper-Arm-Blood-Pressure-Monitor_1125215/

is really decent.

 

[The Chemist]

Surely a standard automated bp machine would do instead of the sphyg, unless the op has AF.

 

[Feek]

I just bought the first one I linked because it seemed a bargain at around £20 including discount and a friend on Facebook has the same device. My initial reading of 112/58 with a pulse of 53 is pretty much the same as it was when I was last done at the doctor a few weeks ago so I'm happy with that. I don't need it to be precisely accurate but to give me an idea if there are any changes happening that I should be aware of.

 

[tom_nieto]

The automated ones have improved loads of late, frankly you hardly ever see a manual machine used in hospital unless the automated ones give a very strange result.

The trend is most important as is making sure you attach the cuff the same (correct) way each time.

You'll be fine with the one you've got.