Pressure,pressure,blood pressure.

Advantages: Helps keep a check on your health.
Disadvantages: Price maybe, could get a little paranoid about health.

...I thought I would have a change from all the heavy stuff I have been writing about lately, and write about a little machine I bought about six months ago. The Omron MX3. It is a blood pressure monitor. All my life my blood pressure has been wildly erratic. The highest measured blood pressure I recorded was 180/100. High yes, but I had just spent 12 minutes on a treadmill having a heart test. Anyway it was back to 140/80 within 5 minutes. They told me that was great. Anyway when I go to the doctors it varies between 157/95 being the highest and 117/76 being the lowest. Generally though it is about 140/80-85 I have researched this a little and I have realised that your blood pressure can vary and change very rapidly. I have confirmed this by visits to the doctor and a medical friend of mine who uses a different machine to the one...

milleniumzeus 13.10.2003 · Read review
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Review of Omron RX Blood Pressure Monitor

grace under pressure

Advantages: excellent value, quick, accurate, fully automatic
Disadvantages: not aesthetically pleasing

...This isn?t cheap tat as the £9.99 price tag would indicate. I was inspired to write this review because I was horrified at the price tag of most of these BP monitors. I never realised the price that some of the brands were going for. I have one of these; I also bought my dad one. I also have an Omron R6 but I have decided not to review it once I found out it was being sold for £75, you see I paid £4.99 for mine. Admittedly the Omron looks nicer than Lloyds but not that much nicer. The Lloyds is actually a £50.00 machine but the price is reduced to £9.99. Admittedly the price cuts are not all down to altruism; Lloyds are a rapidly developing pharmaceutical market leader, their market share has increased by 67%. They have achieved this by placing pharmacies in GPs surgeries and doing free health checks i.e. diabetic and blood pressure...

Miskah 02.06.2007 · Read review
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Review of LLoyds Pharmacy Blood Pressure Monitor

Under Pressure

Advantages: Quick testing
Disadvantages: cost maybe

...being totally convinced I needed this medication, and the fact that I was scared witless to begin taking it, I invested in a Pressure monitor. Okay it set me back nearly £80 (bar 5p). But hey, if it meant I didn’t need this extra tablet it was worth the outlay. I had white coat syndrome and now I had to prove it! The meter ~~~~~~~~~~ Meters come in various shapes and forms, and probably complexities. However my one was simple (you know me not technical at all). I bought my meter online from www.p2u.co.uk and as stated I paid almost £80. The small box it came in contained just the monitor and an instruction leaflet/BP recording form. The meter is attached to a small cuff, which secures around the wrist. How to use ~~~~~~~~~~~ Simply place the cuff around your wrist and fix in place with the Velcro. Next switch...

dabmim 10.01.2002 · Read review
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Review of Omron RX Blood Pressure Monitor

A Blood-Curdling Review.

Advantages: You might get fixed
Disadvantages: Most men prefer socks or pants.

...The Lloyd's Pharmacy Blood Pressure Monitor is the most peculiar present I've ever been given for my birthday. I even emailed my sister and told her I thought so. She pointed out that I'm getting older and if it stops me getting a heart attack or having a stroke then it was a good present. I think she's right and I didn't mean to be ungrateful. Of course it's better to know. It's just that I was feeling quite well when she sent it and now that I've taken my blood pressure and looked everything up in the supplied chart I think I might be at death's door. Just kidding! This is actually a great present for me. I tend to veer from dieting and long distance running to lolling about with a bottle of whisky and as much chocolate as I can find. I ended my last committed and effective diet on Christmas Day of 2006 and I'm still showing no...

FlameDruid 20.09.2007 · Read review
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Review of LLoyds Pharmacy Blood Pressure Monitor

Blood Pressure

Advantages: See op
Disadvantages: Possible heart attack victim!

...I thought blood pressure problems happened to other people, not me! When I started having cluster headaches (readers may like to read my opinions) the doctor said I had a high BP reading but then it did go down to normal. Blood pressure is the pressure inside your arteries - little tubes that carry blood from the heart to the rest of the body. Do not mistake these tubes for veins - veins are the blue tubes that you can see underneath your skin. You can feel your artery by putting your fingertips on your pulse at your wrist. If you can feel it beating then that means the artery is beating. Apparently blood pressure was not diagnosed until the early 1900's and the people most likely affected are those of us who live in the western world. Blood pressure is using monitored by wrapping an inflatable band round your upper arm...

Wearsidelass 02.10.2003 · Read review
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Review of Member Advice on High Blood Pressure

High Blood Pressure

Advantages: see op
Disadvantages: see op

...High Blood Pressure. Blood pressure is one of the main concerns that affects out society. So why is there such concern? Why are so many are there so many strokes that may arise form ignored high blood pressure? Why does it cause so many deaths? To help you to appreciate what is Blood Pressure, we need to know why this is very important knowledge to know. Blood pressure is the physical influence that pushes the blood against the walls of the arteries. Blood is needed to carry its supply from the heart to all of the body’s tissue and organs. Every time this happens, particularly when you are resting it pumps out its blood to the arteries at a rate about 60-70 times a minute. When your doctor measures the heart, using a blood pressure it is measured with an instrument called a sphygmomanometer...

Elainebaba 24.08.2001 · Read review
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Review of Member Advice on High Blood Pressure

Reduce your high blood pressure without drugs

Advantages: Easy to follow guidance with good explanations
Disadvantages: You do have to put the effort in when you have read it

...Around a quarter of all adults will develop high blood pressure in their lifetime. In the UK doctors are taking this problem seriously and more and more people are being diagnosed because of better monitoring (and because the government in incentivising doctors to look for it.) Sadly I am one of the people with blood pressure on the high side but I am trying to find a way to control it without going on to medication for the rest of my life. I have tried a few 'snake oil' remedies which didn't work, and I am still keen to find something which will help which is why I ordered this book from Amazon recently as if there is a 'Natural Way' to control blood pressure I want to know what it is. In his introduction James Scala says that about 85% of all high blood pressure can be controlled by diet, food and lifestyle. He is also points...

laramax 28.07.2007 · Read review
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Review of 25 Natural Ways to Lower Blood Pressure - James Scala

Simple Blood Pressure Monitoring

Advantages: Extremely simple operation
Disadvantages: None really

...BOOTS INTELLISENSE BLOOD PRESSURE ARM MONITOR ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- BLOOD PRESSURE MEASUREMENTS ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ I've included this bit as I hope it may be of interest to those of us (and I include myself in this category) who have had their blood pressure measured by their GP, but at really taken much notice of what the measurements meant - after all, I sure that for many of us, our feelings would be - 'the Doctor is there to tell you if there is a problem, isn't he ?' The simplest explanation that I can find of what Blood Pressure actually is states that it is the force required for your heart to push blood through your arteries. This explanation could be compared to a situation like a central heating system pumping hot water through radiators...

bluenosesquonk 05.12.2006 · Read review
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Review of Boots Tingle

How Pressured Are You?

Advantages: none really unless you have low pressure
Disadvantages: lots if you have high pressure

...of it already and your physician should have given you advice on how to lower your pressure or have prescribed you with medication to aid you in the process. High blood pressure is also known as "hypertension" and should be taken seriously. If hypertension is not monitored and reduced you increase your risk of having strokes, heart failure, heart attacks and is currently the most common cause of chronic renal failure. High blood pressure also reduced your life expectancy. If you or anyone you know has hypertension please take it seriously and do take your doctor's advice on lowering your pressure. There are certain things which you should avoid if you have hypertension such as excessive salt, try to cut down as much as you possibly can on your salt intake. Liquorice is also bad for people with high blood pressure. There are...

anonymili 17.07.2008 · Read review
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Review of Member Advice on High Blood Pressure

High Blood Pressure and Grapefruit

Advantages: Once the Doctor knows about it, you get lots of other checkups
Disadvantages: Taking lots of tablets and getting dizzy

...It may a little known fact but grapefruit and some beta-blockers do not mix well. I had been taking Atenelol but started getting some side effects, which made me visit the Doctor. He slowly reduced the Atenelol until I was off it all together. I went on holiday and my friend who I was staying with, assuming I was still on medication saw me drinking grapefruit juice and cautioned me against drinking it as it has detrimental effect on some beta-blockers. I told her I was off the beta-blockers and thought no more of it. On my return I had to go for a BP check. My blood pressure was high and I was told to make a further appointment later in the week. Anyway to cut a long story short my blood pressure continued to be high so the Doctor decided to switch me to calcium beta-blockers ' nifedipine'. To my amazement I was told by...

shirley49 28.10.2005 · Read review
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