Just bought an Omron BP monitor and compared to my Lifesource monitor

[nothuman]

I have the latest super duper best Omron crap they sell and I am always 135+ on it, but always under 120 at the docs office.

Problem is that the life insurance nurse that gets sent out each year uses an Omron too and always puts me down that I have high bp :banghead:

So they're using cheap crap at your doctor's office too? That sucks. I feel like it varies depending on where I get mine taken. I've seen cheap ones and also seen fancier ones.

 

[liv2pb]

Mine is. Our wellness nurse at work uses the same one I have...and I have posted pics of my numbers on here before.

I actually have an appointment with her this morning at 8:00 AM and will see where mine is. I just finished training, and having a big cup of coffee as we speak.

But I did carry my wrist one into my doctors office to compare with his using a large cuff and stethoscope ...and they were almost identical.

He said most offices will be using the wrist cuffs before long as wrist sizes don't vary as much as upper arm sizes.

Plus there is a procedure for using one. You are supposed to put it on your wrist, and then hold that arm across your chest above the level of your heart...so basically your hand touching the top of your right pec/shoulder area.

This is the way the nurse at work has us do it too.

Which brand/model do you have?

 

[maldorf]

The Omron I use now is for up to 17 inch arm, straight out and not flexed. It is plenty big for me now that I have shrunk down. It reads about exactly what I get at the doctor's office. I ended up buying it because my stethoscope was crap and I couldn't hear my pulse when my BP got really low. It was down to something like 90/55 or so.

I measured my arm flexed and it is 17 inches now.

 

[rmtt]

Which brand/model do you have?

Omron BP652. When I bought it last year, it was one of Consumer Reports highest rated units.

I just got the info from our company nurses when she first started using it, did some research, and bought it.

I took it with me the next time I had my regular Dr's appointment as we had already had the cuff size to arm size discussion a few times.

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