Blood Pressure Cuff

**Ernst** · 01-15-2009, 09:51 PM

Can someone please recommend a good model or brand of cuff to get for home?

Obviously one for a larger arm than those crap machines at the store... I swear that this was asked before but my search didn't turn up an answer, only that there's an "obese" cuff for larger arms?

**Big** · 01-15-2009, 10:13 PM

I just use a big cuff I got off the shelf at WalGreen's.

**almostgone** · 01-17-2009, 09:45 AM

I use an Omron autoinflate with the large cuff that I got at Wallyworld. It has a chart on the side that lists the cuff size needed for a given circumference arm. Just for sh!ts and grins I took it to my last Dr. app't. to compare it to the manual sphygmomanometer they use and it was fairly close.

AG

**scibble** · 01-17-2009, 10:58 AM

I would just get a model that is meant for use on the wrist. Those are reasonably accurate. Anyway, the exact numbers on your BP aren't so important. BP flucutates too much from moment to moment. It just needs to be fairly close to accurate.

Get a wrist machine, take a measurement from each arm and average them.

**rockinred** · 01-17-2009, 12:00 PM

Try LifeSource....xlarge... it is excellent. I had a heck of a time getting an accurate one. this one measures 16.5-23.5 arms and is way better than the other two I have used. It is a bit pricey..like 140ish.

No dis scibble, but the wrist ones are waayy inaccurate. One time one was reading me at like 205/89, I went into panic mode only to find out I was at 132/76.