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Just took your advice .mine is fine thanks zipper.I can now keep sugar level down .am glad as if it was booze related count me out.my count is good thanks to you.

My mate got one off ebay and when he tried it he thought it was broke as it wouldn't register his BP. Turned out his BP was off the scale and he ended up 3 weeks in Arrowe Park

As I said, some only go up to 200, I had heart op and still was off the scale, I had a wrist one and a doctors type one, sold them both as they were no good to me then. After a few years you get a good idea of your blood pressure without using a machine. I never had a headache ever, then I got pressure around my head like having a hat on, but a tad more pressure to the front. Went to the docs, sent to Arrowe Park Hospital, Broad Green the next day, triple heart bypass. I didn't even have time to think about it, week later back home. Then...2 years of doom and gloom nothing went right, no medication, wrong medication, I have been to Arrowe Park so many times. I wont even go there anymore, I`m booked back in to Broad Green Hospital for the good old electric shock treatment. Stop your heart and zap it back into normal pattern. Only takes minutes and you don't feel a thing, though it does leave a burn to the skin. They supply cream which someone said costs a fortune, like £20 or something, it does help but I could live without it so I`ll be a hero and tell them to save it for the next patient. Life and times of a heart patient lol.

What a burn could look like, they don't use paddles like on Casualty, they use sticky pads. Mine was not as bad as this burn.

Rudebox ,i use BP machine in Whetstone Lane Medical centre , you go in front door..reception .turn to your right and it is about a 3rd of the way down the corrider< easy to use and you get a print out> can,t see a problem you using it ..Hope this helps ,my daugther's and my -self all have BP issues and take meds,,,

OK, thanks Missy.

eeew,looks like the patch of skin left when my OH takes off his painkiller patch, although his skin is beginning to get used to it now. Well well Zippy , youre obviously all heart lol!