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Hypertension will kill you. It damages every aspect of your body: brain, blood vessels, kidneys- your eyes- everything.

Doctor offices almost always have nigro medical assistants (calling themselves nurse) that have zero idea how to take a blood pressure.

Hypertension will kill you. It damages every aspect of your body: brain, blood vessels, kidneys- your eyes- everything. Doctor offices almost always have nigro medical assistants (calling themselves nurse) that have zero idea how to take a blood pressure.

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[–] • 2 pts (edited )

TLDR:

The latest clinical practice guidelines from the American Heart Association emphasize several key steps for an accurate measurement—including appropriate cuff size, back support, feet flat on the floor with legs uncrossed, and an appropriate arm position, in which the middle of an adjustable BP cuff is positioned at mid-heart level on an arm supported on a desk or table.

[–] • 2 pts

Can't sell you bp lowering meds if your bp isn't high.

[–] • 2 pts

I came here to say this but figured a poalr was on it.

[–] • 1 pt

I like to take my blood pressure laying down.

[–] • 1 pt

If you have to but if not, take it sitting with your left arm at heart level resting on something. A friend of mine can't sit from spinal cord disease so he takes it lying back as well.

[–] • 1 pt

They love to give you scripts for it so they don't care if it's done right or wrong. I hand an EKG before surgery and the computer said I had a heart issue and told me to go to a cardiologist. Cardiologist looked at the printout, laughed and said I can tell they did this entirely wrong. Apparently I wasn't supposed to be sitting up, swinging my feet, and joking with the tard doing the test...

Another doctor's office - PA came to do my blood pressure and it was so weird. She stood in between my legs and had me essentially hug her while she did it. I was so weirded out that of course my BP was high. Let that office with 5 scripts and an order for a mammogram without the doc ever even looking at or ordering any blood work or even doing anything other than walking in, telling me I need to lose weight (like I am not aware) and saying im old and need to be on drugs. Didn't even bother asking me about my medical history.

I didn't fill any of them and I refuse to get mammos or pap smear anymore unless I feel like there is something wrong. They always give me crap about being old and not having HPV. Telling them I'm not and never have been promiscuous just gets an eye roll and they insist on retesting every time. I'm so done with that crap.

[–] • 0 pt

Sounds creepy as hell. That HPV shit is a scam. If you sleep around or do porn for a living, yeah get tested but otherwise- no chance. I know HPV infection can cause problems especially for pregnant women but that merely means don't sleep around.

Sentinel exams or tests are important if you have a family history of something significant but other than that, only if you really need it.

[–] • 1 pt

If you are consistently measuring blood pressure with an unsupported arm, and that gives you an overestimated BP of 6.5 mmHg, that's a potential difference between a systolic BP of 123 and 130, or 133 and 140

Have hypertension due to genetics, can confirm this is exactly what happens. Lazy doctors will check your blood pressure incorrectly, declare you have hypertension and ermagerd you need all the meds! Then you worry about hypertension when you return to the doctor, your blood pressure spikes due to nervousness, and ermagerd it's higher and you need more meds. Repeat every visit.

If you get your own blood pressure monitor and support your arm properly, you see your actual (lower) blood pressure...and without the added spike from nervousness. If you still need meds, it's at a much lower dose dictated by genetics rather than an ever-increasing dose caused by poor test methodology.

[–] • 0 pt

Absolutely. I watch the sphygnomanometer (the b/p with the mercury column and the cuff attached to a pump, old school) and can read my b/p within a few mmHg. Dumb ass negresses "medical assistants", don't know shit and have zero clue wtf they're doing.