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« on: April 12, 2010, 06:58:28 PM »
Now that I have a graft in my left and right arms, left arm being the one that failed, they are having me do my bp on my rist or legs because they said if they did it on the upper arm where bp is normally taken where the old graft is they said the readings may not be correct. However when I take my bp on my rist or leg my bp reads really hi like 168-100 and palse of 127. This even happens in dialysis. The strange thing is when I feel my palse it's not beeting rapidly which if my palse was 127 and a bp 168-100 I'm sure I'd be having some symptems which I don't. Just for giggles I took my bp where it is normally taken on me and it read more in my range. Has anyone else had this issue? What's the best spot you've found to take your bp.
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« Reply #1 on: April 12, 2010, 07:50:36 PM »
Yes, I have to take it on my ankle due to fistulas in both upper arms.  I get weird readings and they have to reposition it.  Make sure your legs are elevated like in the up position in the recliner.  Yeah, pretty soon I'll run out of places to take my BP.
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« Reply #2 on: May 14, 2010, 12:10:51 AM »
Rerun pretty soon they will be taking your BP around your neck!  :rofl;
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« Reply #3 on: May 15, 2010, 08:46:56 PM »
"Rerun pretty soon they will be taking your BP around your neck!"

I wouldn't let them do that If I were you. :rofl;
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« Reply #4 on: May 17, 2010, 08:49:53 PM »
I wish they had one of those futuristic medical diagnostic scanners like Star Trek depicted 40 years ago.  You just scan the patient and get his vital signs without sticking a thermometer in his mouth or wrapping a blood pressure cuff around his arm.
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« Reply #5 on: May 18, 2010, 06:35:24 PM »
Rightside, I was just telling my sister that I wished the docs had tricorders or that bed on Star Trek that monitored everything with out poking at you.
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« Reply #6 on: May 19, 2010, 07:12:05 PM »
I don't mind a thermometer in my mouth or a cuff round my arm.

It where they stick the endoscope that I don't like...  :rofl;
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« Reply #7 on: May 23, 2010, 05:44:45 PM »
My BP is psycho at dialysis. It is high when standing up but is down when lying down.  The techs say it is weird.
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« Reply #8 on: May 23, 2010, 07:16:53 PM »
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« Reply #9 on: June 08, 2010, 08:38:39 PM »
My nurse and tech do not even write the standing pressure down anymore, they know Kit has crazy blood pressure reading when I arrive and am standing up.  My BP was 138/85 at Surgeons today sitting down.
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Remember your present situation is not your final destination.

Take it one day, one hour, one minute, one second at a time.

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« Reply #10 on: June 09, 2010, 06:59:46 AM »
On Star Trek they had a pill instead of dialysis!!!  Wish someone would hurry up and invent it!!  :flower;
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