Blood Pressure Monitor

Jeff121

Hi
I'm looking for a half decent Blood Pressure Monitor, Lloyds Pharmacy are selling one at the moment for £10 reduced form £20 also Argos sell several at different prices.
At present I am getting my blood pressure checked by the doctor once a month. I would like to keep an eye on it myself before and after exercise especially.
Any recommendations would be grateful.
Thanks
Jeff

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anguk

We've got the one from Lloyds and it's very good, although I do have to say the cuff does get pretty tight when it's pumping up! This could be because we got the large cuff because it's my husbands BP that we're monitoring and my arm is quite a bit smaller than his.

Sugar_Coated_Owl

The Omron basic MX2 seems to be quite a popular one.

Night-owl_6

I have the lloyds one, pretty good and as the last poster says it does get pretty tight around the arm but other than is great!

Ted_Hutchinson

I bought the Lloyds cheapo one some time ago. Still working well. The readings I get at home are compared with those done by health professionals are within the normal daily variability so I think it's quite good enough to show if your average BP readings are going up or down.

My losing weight has dropped my BP levels down considerably.

Jeff121

Thanks everyone for your advice. I will buy the Lloyds monitor today. BP was checked by the doc yesterday unfortunately 180/100..... as a result had my Amlodipine tablets increased from 5mg to 10mg.
Ted thanks for the link to your diet plan and congratulations on your weight loss, 3 stone, fantastic. I'm 14st 10lbs roughly the weight you were at the start of your diet and would like to get down to 11 stone.... its a lot to lose but either that or risk heart attack, stroke diabetes and other things that go hand in hand with being over weight. It seems that not mixing Carbs and Fat, a bit like the Atkins diet is successful.
Will give it a go
Thanks again.
Jeff.

keelykat

Jeff121 wrote: »

Thanks everyone for your advice. I will buy the Lloyds monitor today. BP was checked by the doc yesterday unfortunately 180/100..... as a result had my Amlodipine tablets increased from 5mg to 10mg.
Ted thanks for the link to your diet plan and congratulations on your weight loss, 3 stone, fantastic. I'm 14st 10lbs roughly the weight you were at the start of your diet and would like to get down to 11 stone.... its a lot to lose but either that or risk heart attack, stroke diabetes and other things that go hand in hand with being over weight. It seems that not mixing Carbs and Fat, a bit like the Atkins diet is successful.
Will give it a go
Thanks again.
Jeff.

I also brought the one from lloyds-and was pleased with it.

Sadly the nurse at my gp's surgery told me off for having one and using it-i posted ages ago about it.

Good luck with reducing your bp-im currently on a low dose of meds to help keep mine down.

keely.

pattycake

Another vote for the Lloyds blood pressure monitor. I have had mine a while and it works perfectly and the results are very comparable to those from the doctor's surgery.

Jeff121

Thanks everyone for your advice. I bought one of Lloyds own branded Monitors yesterday. They had 2 models at £9.99, I took the Model "Blood Pressure Monitor BP II" which has a memory function and stores up to 14 tests. Tried it out as soon as I got home and my BP was a little lower than taken at the surgery the previous day, maybe a bit of "White Coat Syndrome" from the doctors reading as he scares me with his warnings of what might happen if I don't get my BP under control. Will take the Lloyds Monitor to the surgery in 2 weeks time and compare it to the reading there.
Thanks again
Jeff

eyelinerprincess

Night-owl wrote: »

I have the lloyds one, pretty good and as the last poster says it does get pretty tight around the arm but other than is great!

Doesn't it have to be quite tight though? Last time I was in hospital, it felt like the BP monitor was gonna squeeze my arm off! That was fun at 5am...