To think this nurse was unprofessional?

If you get stressed your rate can go far higher

If you do some breathing and relax it can go lower

If all of you get similar rates and your sister is that far off she is doing one of the above.

If you only had one monitor - would you test it twice - in quick succession?

But the machines you own are not nhs machines given to you. You must bought them so if they don't work etc you need to bin them or return as faulty but not expect nhs to check and compare them for you!!

They face face the appointment to check the BP, tell you what it wax’s in their machine and confirm to you if it was high or not. That’s their job.

you could’ve then gone home and compared that on your two machines, then decided which was most accurate and only used that one.

You didn’t, you tried to make a nurse make that decision.

Ridiculous

Sorry to say : but this is a very good example of patients becoming harder work ...

Do you not know what a pharmacy is?

I take blood pressure medication and I've been told more than once by staff at my GP surgery to 'just go to the pharmacy and have it done'.
Fair enough, l thought.

But when l tried to book an pharmacy appointment on the NHS website, it states very clearly that 'You cannot get a free blood pressure check if you
a) already have high blood pressure
or
b) have had your blood pressure checked by a healthcare professional in the past 6 months.

When l brought that up at my GP surgery, no one was aware of it.
I actually saved a screenshot of it on my phone for the next time l was told to go to the pharmacy, and produced it next time l was told that.
Since then l've shown it to three healthcare professionals at the surgery, and they all said "Oh.... I didn't know that...."

To be honest it would make life easier if you could have it done at the pharmacy, rather than making an appointment at the surgery.

As an earlier poster has recommended, honestly I would ignore the 2 blood pressure monitors you already have because they are causing potentially unnecessary concern. Buy or borrow another one for the 7 day monitoring and stick with that to get consistent readings. Even if the readings show hypertension then at least after 7 days monitoring the doctors/nurses can investigate what the issue is potentially and advise from there. (Poor service from the nurse however. Shame about that and no excuses but maybe this hot weather or an issue outside of work has made working difficult for her today).

There’s a lot of chat about “ we” !

I personally think that was a waste of an appointment, it is not the nurses job to verify the accuracy of your machine, are you aware that blood pressure machines should be sent back to the manufacturer once a year for re calibration to ensure accuracy, this is your responsibility if the machines belongs to you, obviously if the surgery has loaned them out then the responsibility is theirs, so basically is it your machine or the practices? IMO this an outrageous expectation and comment on your behalf. To summarise, as has been commented on go and get a pharmacy check, if high then book GP appt, wasting an already overstretched resource is unconscionable when you had the option of pharmacy etc also the comment re the nurse accusing her of unprofessionalism who acted perfectly reasonably was not at all appropriate.

This is the sort of thing I get absolutely obsessed with when my anxiety is very high. I have diagnosed high blood pressure and can get obsessive with my readings. One time, when I was going mad over something that seemed so important like this, my DH said "This isn't a blood pressure issue, it's an anxiety issue" and I felt the penny drop. A good reminder to take my anxiety medication!

Also, your sister's blood pressure is probably just more changeable that the rest of the family. Mine can change 10 - 15 points in seconds when I overthink it. So both machines are probably correct, but her blood pressure is literally just changing between the two readings!

Anyone else struggling to work out who had what appointment with what machine and may or may not have high blood pressure ?!
Im tired, my powers of comprehension are not what they should be!

If you are thinking the nurse didn't check properly because she was quick, that's a mistake - it's really easy and quick for even non-nurses to do a manual BP. It would probably take me about 15-30 seconds and I'm not a nurse.

It's literally how long it takes you to inflate the cuff then slowly deflate it. The machines take longer because they take longer to inflate as they have to sense when they've lost the pulse. When you are listening, you just pump to where the pulse stops, then smoothly deflate til it returns and then disappears. It's really quick compared to the machine.

You can look online at tutorials and see how quickly it is done.

Is there a particular reason for this being such a group effort, with such convoluted story telling?

This can't be serious but a troll! Who does this??? BP changes instantly..
You waste time of precious appointments i can't never get cos of people like you!!!!!

I'm still confused about why you thought either of the machines was incorrect.

But she really only needed to check one because if she did a manual check against the first one and the numbers were the same then clearly that one is correct. I would wager that the other one was probably also correct but she didn't check that one.

Firstly check the manufacturer instructions on how to calibrate the machines. Then take 3 consecutive readings and use the aversge

Yes you do. The one she checked is giving accurate readings therefore if you are saying they are always different then the other is inaccurate.

Although to be honest it doesn’t matter if the second one is inaccurate or not because you only need one machine and the nurse has identified an accurate machine for you/your sister.

You're taking the p£ss. Last time I was at GPs for something innocuous, the nurse took my BP numerous times, got other machine and even one of those old fashioned bulb ones. She got the GP involved and he wouldn't let me leave because they thought I might have a stroke/cardiac arrest. I was there for over two hours - despite presenting as calm andI felt ok. I've had surgery cancelled before anaesthesia because mad BP. Luckily, meds seem to have sorted. Not a smoker, drinker or someone who takes the piss out of the NHS!