Blood pressure checks

What do you prefer? Taking or having your blood pressure taken? Prefer manual or osillometric cuffs? Prefer men or women?

I like both taking and having my blood pressure taken. I prefer using a manual cuff and stethoscope. I love taking a attractive ladies pressure.

I definitely prefer having mine taken - manually! I’m not a huge fan of electronic cuffs. It just feels too impersonal! Oh, and much prefer to have my blood pressure checked by a man. 😉

I love taking blood pressure Manualy. It’s so exciting

I do enjoy it when the nurse or doctor take my blood pressure. It's just the start of more things to come.

@Bpfetishguy

Hello and good evening,

I like it, both for me, to have my blood pressure measured, and for me, to measure someone's blood pressure. Of course, I prefer the former. I would like to have my blood pressure measured on the upper arm, wrist, thigh, and ankle cuffs.

I prefer manual gauges. For me these are more authentic and have style. The electrical measuring devices remind me more of hospital and intensive care medicine. Nevertheless, the electrical measuring devices have their right to exist. If one should decide, I would prefer the manual measuring devices.

Definitely a woman should do this. A sweet, young and attractive nurse or doctor. Even if my heart goes a little crazy, but for me, it should be a woman who does me, measure my blood pressure. I feel much better taken care of in female hands. I don't know why, but maybe it was very formative for me how my fiancée used to take care of me.

Best regards too you

I am fine taking someone’s blood pressure or having mine taken. Definitely a manual cuff and please ladies only.

I enjoy both taking and having mine taken 😃 Prefer men for both and prefer a manual cuff in the matter. I do have an automatic cuff which I use to check my own blood pressure at home 😃

I enjoy having my blood pressure taken during my exams. It's one of the first things to happen after having my height measured and being weighed and a sign of what's to come. Has to be a female doing it, with a manual cuff and stethoscope.

I only like to measure blood pressure with a manual sphygmomanometer!

I enjoy having my blood pressure taken during my exams. . Has to be a female doing it.

That will add 10 points.

I enjoy having my bp taken.

I check my own.

I can take my own at home. Every visit to any of the Dr.s I go to, my Blood Pressure is checked. I have am Omron digital blood pressure monitor (HEM-712C) I use to monitor my Blood Pressure. It gives me my blood pressure and my pulse. I ask what it was, then I comment on if it is high or low. All that is based on what I do at home before I go to the Dr.s.

One day I sort of worried the nurse because it was so low. I had fallen asleep in the waiting room, pre-Covid-19, and I was woke up and walked back, weighed and then my blood pressure taken. I was really relaxed. My Blood Pressure was like 90/ 48 or close to that.

I don't care which arm they use, I don't talk to them if they ask questions while doing it. When they are done I remind them that talking during or while taking blood pressure raises it up. Thus that is why I don't talk.

I check mine every few days with an electronic cuff. Took it to the docs office and was close to the nurses electronic cuff. Both electronic cuffs were higher than the docs manual, but not by a lot. It gives me a good ballpark number, and an indication of a trend.

Like others, I check mine every couple of days. Have an electronic one I picked up at Walmart. Had it checked at the doctor's office and it's pretty close. Having high blood pressure and being on blood pressure pills, I find it good to check it regularly to keep it in check.

I enjoy having my bp taken.

Do you have a sphygmomanometer?

I have a manual sphygmomanometer. I take my blood pressure a couple of times a month. I like having my blood pressure taken manually at the doctor's office if its done well. I don't like the electronic machines as much.

Having pressure taken by manual cuff.

Taking the blood pressure with classical manual cuff.

The maximum heart rate bu subtracting your age from 220. Average adult resting heart rate should range between 60 and 100. But anything over 90 beats per minute is considered high.

The 220-age = max heart rate was devised in 1970 based on some relatively uncontrolled studies of less than 500 participants. It's easy to remomber and easy to calculate.. The traditional formula underestimates your heart rate regardless of your age, but it starts getting really inaccurate starting at 30. A more accurate heart rate calculator that better accounts for age was developed by examining over 3000 men and women between age 19-89. That formula is: (211-.64*Age)

Note both formulas are based on averages and do not account for physical fitness levels, genetics, and other factors. The gold standard for determining your max heart rate is with a true maximal exercise test, (September-October 2013 issue of the ​American Journal of Human Biology​​).​ A maximal exercise test pushes your body to its physical limit while a doctor — or sometimes an exercise physiologist — monitors your heart rate.

For BP monitoring, we have an electric OMRON cuff. It's quick, easy, and it's good enough!

I prefer to have someone take mine, But when it is not possible i will do it myself using a manual cuff.

My doc (actually her nurse) uses an automated cuff - if they get an odd reading then they use a manual cuff and stethoscope to double check. I check ours regularly at home with a cheap electric cuff. I took mine at home this morning and saw the doctor a couple hours later and our readings were within few mm/hg of each other. I asked her to check it manually for calibration purposes and it came back very close to the other two readings.

It depends who is taking it. I would prefer to have some of you to take my BP over the nurse at one of my doctor's offices (the velcro on the cuffs suck and her energy makes me anxious)

@Newbie35 It sounds like your doctor's office could benefit from these:

https://www.erka.org/en/cuffs/superb-hook/85

I prefer someone takes it. Usually it's taken with automated cuff, but I like the manual one also.

I prefer checking my blood pressure using my less-than $30 watch. My cardiologist suggested I check at random times, so I bought the watch and do it. The watch has been as accurate as every check, except one, done by a medical professional since purchasing the watch.

The one check that did not match was done by an experienced nurse using a manual cuff and stethoscope. The initial reading was off by more than 20 points of both systolic and diastolic compared to my watch. I asked the check be repeated, and when they matched, the nurse checked twice more with similar results.

As a play doc I had a patient wear a long sleeve shirt that interfered with the bp cuff. The sleeves were too tight to roll up, so I asked them to remove it. They hesitated because they weren't wearing a bra. Nothing like taking the bp of a topless patient!

I love to have mine checked with cuff and stethoscope. Given the chance I will check someone's pressure in a heart beat. I was once a patient care tech and an EMT so I have no problem checking it for someone else. I would love to meet someone that would share my interest in it.