Bloody 24 hour blood pressure monitor

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Has anyone had to wear one of these before. I picked one up this morning after waiting for a month. The nurse put it on and said it measures your blood pressure every half an hour. I said thank you and left.

Got in the car, BP monitor starts. It goes beserk, keeps inflating every couple of minutes instead of every 30 minutes. Surely it's not supposed to do that. Is it faulty? I've taken it off now.

I had one a few years ago and had similar. I don't think it's necessarily faulty I think it's more likely that it's not quite in the right place and is not able to pick up the reading properly. Have you got a phone number you can ring? Tomorrow morning maybe? For advice?

I had a second one, some years later, that was incorrectly fitted, so tight it felt like it was trying to squeeze my arm off. Hideous! So I had to ring for advice.

Not sure this is much help, but I had one and found it a nightmare! I'm sure it sent my blood pressure up because it woke me up every half hour in the night!

Did you get sorted?

I recently had to wear one of these as part of my preeclampsia follow up. It will go off every few minutes if it cant get a proper reading (ie. When I was walking home). Once I was home / sat still, it was fine. I had mine on when it was the hottest day of the year and it was so uncomfortable. If it keeps doing it, you can try repositioning it if you know what you are doing, or you could pop into a chemist and ask them to check it for you. Once it is taking proper readings, it shouldn't keep going off.