I received my blood pressure monitor two days ago.
Now, I don't know WHAT I was thinking about when I bought it. The doctors who take my blood pressure can't even get a reading most of the time till they do it two or three times.
So why did I think I could get a reading in my own house???? Duh.
Well I re-read the directions 3 more times today after reading them over and over and following the diagrams.
It turns out I was using it incorrectly. I got my first reading this evening after an extraordinarily stressful day.
I was anticipating the worst. But the worst was the 160/110 that I had the day of the positive pap.
Tonight, after emotional stress, a hideous day, decisions that need to be made but don't know how, a counseling session that I am unprepared to discuss right now....
131/79.
For a stressful day - that's not too damn bad.
So I will take it again tomorrow morning after I wake up which is recommended. I will monitor it for another 7 days and then fill my prescription that I needed to hold off on.
I always joke with the doctors that I was dead.
Clearly I am not.
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