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I couldn’t find a thread for this so started this one. Mods please merge if necessary.
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My question, is there a blood pressure home device that keeps track and stores your results?
I’m looking for one for my daughter, high blood pressure runs high on her mom’s side of the family and her doctor wants her to keep track of it everyday for a few weeks.
 
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There is a thread. Oddly health discussion here didn't seem to have very good legs here.

I don't know anything about blood pressure devices.
 
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mad4vols said:
I couldn’t find a thread for this so started this one. Mods please merge if necessary.
Thank you.

My question, is there a blood pressure home device that keeps track and stores your results?
I’m looking for one for my daughter, high blood pressure runs high on her mom’s side of the family and her doctor wants her to keep track of it everyday for a few weeks.
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I have never found one that is consistent. I gave up on them a long time ago. I never know if a given reading is high, low, or (gasp!) accurate. And when my mom's BP was sky-high (on a home machine), I reported it to her doctor, and he dismissed it as from a home machine. :rolleyes:

I guess one option (kind of a PITA for daily, but maybe ok if only for a few weeks) is to get it measured at a Walgreen's or something.
 
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VolNExile said:
I have never found one that is consistent. I gave up on them a long time ago. I never know if a given reading is high, low, or (gasp!) accurate. And when my mom's BP was sky-high (on a home machine), I reported it to her doctor, and he dismissed it as from a home machine. :rolleyes:

I guess one option (kind of a PITA for daily, but maybe ok if only for a few weeks) is to get it measured at a Walgreen's or something.
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DWs BP is just the opposite. She takes it at home and it's ok. When they take it at the Dr's office it's around 180/120. They call it "white coat hypertension".
 
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Go aeiou said:
DWs BP is just the opposite. She takes it at home and it's ok. When they take it at the Dr's office it's around 180/120. They call it "white coat hypertension".
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Mine is usually normal at the Dr, unless I'm in pain. Regular visit, and it's fine. When I broke my leg, or went for kidney stones, it's been high.
 
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Go aeiou said:
DWs BP is just the opposite. She takes it at home and it's ok. When they take it at the Dr's office it's around 180/120. They call it "white coat hypertension".
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This is truly not meant to be a scare thing, because your* daughter is MUCH younger than my mom was at the time, but he always said her office readings were high because of white coat hypertension (even though she didn't have a cuff at home, so what did he base that on...) She's now in assisted living with cerebrovascular dementia due to years of untreated HTN.

Has she brought her home BP cuff to the office to let them use it to take her blood pressure? If her home cuff has way different results from the office reading, even when it's done at the same time by the same person, then you now have some useful information to work with. There's technique issues as well, and maybe there's something happening when she takes it herself vs when a staffer does it. It's all so maddening.

* Whoops sorry, I thought I was replying to mad4vols. Same idea, though.
 
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Has she brought her home BP cuff to the office to let them use it to take her blood pressure? If her home cuff has way different results from the office reading, even when it's done at the same time by the same person, then you now have some useful information to work with. There's technique issues as well, and maybe there's something happening when she takes it herself vs when a staffer does it. It's all so maddening.

Amen
 
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reaction to second single shot
Mrs AV had temp of 102 yesterday after our second shingrix vaccinations on Monday

possibly related but flu and covid surging here again, according to her physician
 
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mad4vols said:
I couldn’t find a thread for this so started this one. Mods please merge if necessary.
Thank you.

My question, is there a blood pressure home device that keeps track and stores your results?
I’m looking for one for my daughter, high blood pressure runs high on her mom’s side of the family and her doctor wants her to keep track of it everyday for a few weeks.
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I use one of those wrist cuffs and I believe that it does have a memory, which I guess that you could maybe track your results like you were talking about, but I just recorded mine
in a notebook when I was tracking mine, I never did really read all of the directions :p
 
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Hope this helps @mad4vols

Word of advice, stay away from using wrist cuffs. Blood pressure taken at the wrist is higher and the wrist cuffs are not as accurate for taking your baseline blood pressure. If you have to use a wrist cuff, most require you to place your wrist over your heart in order to get the most accurate reading. A manual cuff with a stethoscope is always the most accurate and with some of my patients is actually the only way to get an accurate reading, even with the automatic BP monitor that we have that is worth several hundred dollars… Some people will get inaccurate readings simply because they did not line the artery lines on the cuff up properly. These monitors are calibrated based on that zone and if you have it aligned incorrectly then you will not get an accurate reading. Also, I know a lot of people know this, but do not cross your feet/legs when taking BP. I once got an abnormal reading for a patient and didn’t realize they had their legs crossed underneath their blanket. It really does throw the reading off.

If you want a BP monitor for home use, we use a Omron monitor. Can’t remember the model but I think it is similar to one of these:

Limited-time deal: OMRON Silver Blood Pressure Monitor, Upper Arm Cuff, Digital Bluetooth Blood Pressure Machine, Stores Up To 80 Readings https://a.co/d/gFnPt5S

OMRON Bronze Blood Pressure Monitor, Upper Arm Cuff, Digital Blood Pressure Machine, Stores Up To 14 Readings https://a.co/d/ccNx9JV
 
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chuckiepoo said:
Anyone have experience with the health ring Oura?
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I wear one. It keeps track of sleep (it guesses you're asleep, obviously), heart rate, and movement (somehow - accelerometer?). I don't suppose it does as good of a job estimating steps/calories as a fitbit, but who knows. It does report numbers for steps, calories, distance.My wife bought it for me. Shen enjoys experimenting on me. I could tell you specifics about what it does or does not know and what it displays (in the app), if you have some specific question. It can't display anything, so it's not like you could look at it while running see what your heartrate is, like you do with a fitbit. It claims that it can detect variations in your body temperature. I'm not going to ovulate to demonstrate how useful that is.

I guess if you let it coach you, it might do you some good. It tells me to move more. It tells me to think about going to bed. Personally, I don't really need somebody to tell me that. What I need is somebody to stop me from eating. Data transfer is slow, I think, but given the size, I guess I'd have to say i's amazing. Keeps a charge about 4 days, I think.

P.S. I've had it a year and still working. I got it for Christmas 2021 (I think)
 
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At the Dr with my wife, and reading a virtual billboard. Something about tetanus shots came up, and got me thinking. I know I'd gotten one, or a booster, several years ago, but couldn't remember why. I rarely go to the Dr, and it wasn't a physical, so I was trying to figure out when. It was during a visit for a spider bite, which is odd to me, right? Only time I've been in years, other than my yearly physical, was breaking my leg, kidney stones, and the bite. I know I'm probably wrong, but I always thought those were just for like cuts, injuries and such.


*I'm just bored and thinking out loud by typing it in here 🤣
 
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joevol33 said:
At the Dr with my wife, and reading a virtual billboard. Something about tetanus shots came up, and got me thinking. I know I'd gotten one, or a booster, several years ago, but couldn't remember why. I rarely go to the Dr, and it wasn't a physical, so I was trying to figure out when. It was during a visit for a spider bite, which is odd to me, right? Only time I've been in years, other than my yearly physical, was breaking my leg, kidney stones, and the bite. I know I'm probably wrong, but I always thought those were just for like cuts, injuries and such.


*I'm just bored and thinking out loud by typing it in here 🤣
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Every ten years. I got it last year and the one before that was in the tdap I got when my first kid was born
 
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joevol33 said:
At the Dr with my wife, and reading a virtual billboard. Something about tetanus shots came up, and got me thinking. I know I'd gotten one, or a booster, several years ago, but couldn't remember why. I rarely go to the Dr, and it wasn't a physical, so I was trying to figure out when. It was during a visit for a spider bite, which is odd to me, right? Only time I've been in years, other than my yearly physical, was breaking my leg, kidney stones, and the bite. I know I'm probably wrong, but I always thought those were just for like cuts, injuries and such.


*I'm just bored and thinking out loud by typing it in here 🤣
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I know I’ve had one too, but I think they just recommend to keep it current, maybe it’s every 10 years?
 
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I am "that guy" that needs to keep track of his tetanus shots. I take a lot of "tetanus risks" ha ha.
 
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utvolpj said:
Every ten years. I got it last year and the one before that was in the tdap I got when my first kid was born
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mad4vols said:
I know I’ve had one too, but I think they just recommend to keep it current, maybe it’s every 10 years?
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Yeah, wife said it was probably just time, so they gave it to me during that visit. I knew there was something every 10 years, but couldn't remember what exactly.
 
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Haven’t had a tetanus shot since I was a kid in 6th or 7th grade. 33 now and I’m cutting myself all the time with barbwire and equipment. Just part of life. Throw some moonshine and antibiotic on it and I’m good to go.
 
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Fun coupon VOL said:
Haven’t had a tetanus shot since I was a kid in 6th or 7th grade. 33 now and I’m cutting myself all the time with barbwire and equipment. Just part of life. Throw some moonshine and antibiotic on it and I’m good to go.
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I had a great grandfather that died from it. Got a cut and worked on a farm.
 
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