Wrist blood pressure monitors

[anonimoxyz]

Hi everyone,

I've had high blood pressure for a few years and my partner has recently been told his is high too- I'm medicated, he's not yet.

Up until now my GP has agreed I'm too anxious to have a home monitor- I know I'd be checking a thousand times a day. Now DP wants to get a home monitor to do his- I don't want him to have to hide it. We both struggle with electric upper arm monitors- he says it makes him panic too.

Has anyone tried a wrist monitor? Can anyone medical vouch for them being as good or would we be wasting our cash?

The British Heart Foundation advise not to use wrist monitors if possible.
If it’s going to make you panic it will give inaccurate readings though so probably best not to bother tbh.

I am using one as I can't use the arm monitors. Dont know if it's me or the machine but the measurements (three in a row, machine not taken off) do fluctuate by a lot sometimes but not always.

I did read that they aren't as good but I figured a rough estimate was better than nothing atm. Mine came from argos.

Thank you both. We might stick with an upper arm one. Appreciate your time x

I have both. The wrist monitor is much closer to the readings I get from the practice nurse when she checks it.