I have a wrist cuff blood pressure unit. You can get one from amazon.com or amazon.ca They wrap around your wrist and give an accurate bp reading - and it doesn't hurt like the arm cuff.

Yes, it hurts really bad, I had an appointment with my doctor last Thursday and my blood pressure was 142/100, and this was unusual for me but that cup pumping up gave me arm pain 😫,he repeated it again later and it read the same, but it was painful as well plus I wasn't feeling well because I had been having allergies with sinus and ear pain, fibromyalgia pain and my back has been HURTING and I wasn't surprised that my blood pressure was high but he wanted to add another blood pressure medication to help control my blood pressure, I really don't think I needed another pill after waiting so long for him to get around to me, I was truly tired of waiting for him and all ready didn't feel well so no surprise my blood pressure was high, I think it was the cuff pain that helped raise my blood pressure, I'm with you on this. Josephine.

Shout out to Pat Mestern. Have ordered a wrist blood pressure cuff from Amazon as suggested. Fingers crossed...

@A MyFibroTeam Member Just read your post. It is so painful to have my blood pressure
taken. I have an appointment tomorrow with my doctor and I'm going to ask if they can do it without the automatic machine...you are correct those machines are the worst! Take care, Linda

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Thank you so much for this information. So helpful. Fibro folks the best.