Which personal digital blood pressure monitor is the most reliable and most accurate?

I used to sell digital blood pressure monitors but no longer.  I have used many different brands with one that has always stood out from the rest in terms of reliability and accuracy.  This is the Omron brand.  I have one of the early Omron wrist type machines that has given almost 10 years of daily trouble-free service.  I am about to upgrade to the latest Omron.

If you have a cardiovascular health issue, or a family history of cardiovascular disease, including over-weight, thyroid, poor circulation and diabetes issues, then one of the best investments you will ever make in your personal and family health, is an Omron blood pressure and heart rate monitor.

Where can I purchase an Omron digital blood pressure and heart rate monitor?

You can now purchase an Omron online at the official Omron website (click on the image link below to go to the Omron Store). You might want to take a look at their pedometers and body composition analysers while you are at it.

Which is best: Arm Cuff type, or the Wrist type?

I am firmly of the opinion that the modern wrist type is best for personal monitoring of blood pressure and pulse.  Why?  for two reasons:

1. When used in accordance with the instructions, there is little or no difference between readings between upper arm and the wrist.
2. The upper arm machine can be awkward to fit; whereas the wrist type is a breeze to fit and operate.  Therefore, there is better compliance by the patient in taking regular readings of blood pressure and pulse at home.

How to monitor blood pressure and pulse with your Omron and how to interpret the results

The Omron is going to cost you a few hundred dollars with every cent well spent.  I have just completed upgrading my E-Book Guide: "Digital Blood Pressure and Heart Rate Monitor User Guidelines".  Its a "must read" for you to get the most out of self-monitoring blood pressure and pulse and will only set you back a measly $10-12.  It is a life-saver!

In my blood pressure E-Book I cover just about everything you need to know about blood pressure:

• For use.
• Interpreting the results.
• Lifestyle modifications to improve and maintain cardiovascular health for life.
• Ensuring heart medication is actually doing its job.
• Monitoring athletic conditioning.
  
  
  
  Digital Blood Pressure and Heart Rate Monitor User Guidelines
  
  

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How beta blockers and drugs for anxiety ruin lives and kill

"Like surgeries, drugs are extremely valuable when used correctly. Unfortunately this is NOT how drugs are used in today's "modern" medicine! In fact, most doctors confuse "practicing medicine" with "automatic prescription writing." This hurts everyone except the drug companies.
Even in cases when drugs are beneficial, alternative drug-free treatments should alwaysbe considered first. Because along with chemical drugs come many harmful side effects that can often take years to surface. In fact, since many drugs cause more harm than good...patients wind up with even more prescriptions than what they started out with. It's a perpetual life threatening cycle that needs to stop!" W C Douglas MD

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Gary Moller comments:

The most common reason for going to the doctor in Wellington City is anxiety and depression. The standard treatment is drugs like beta blockers and various other drugs that variously to lower the blood pressure and reduce anxiety. Most of these drugs work by depressing the chemicals that regulate signaling between nerve cells. This means varying degress of brain fog, dry mouth and slowing of the digestive processes including gut peristalsis.
I have written previously about these drugs and soaring dementia rates. Let's talk about peristalsis, the rhythmic contractions of the smooth muscle of the digestive tract that steadily propels through the the digestive process and into the bowel where it is eliminated once or twice daily. Many drugs slow this process and the consequences can be dire. But, first a little about dry mouth.

Many drugs slow the production of digestive juices and this may be show as dry mouth. Have you seen the movie "Me, Myself & Irene"? In the movie, Jim Carrey plays a man with a split personality named Hank. In one really hilarious scene he takes his medication and suffers an excessive dry mouth reaction. While it was totally over the top, it served well to illustrate what millions of people must put up with daily. Interfere with the digestive juices, including saliva and the person tends towards sweet junk foods and what food is eaten is poorly digested.

Poor digestion along with slowed peristalsis leads to chronic malnutrition and diseases associated with putrid partially digested food accumulating in the lower tracts of the digestive system. Diverticulitis, Chrohn's disease, constipation Chronic obstructive bowel disease, bowel cancer and other ailments develop.

These diseases of the digestive tract may take 20 or more years to develop and the association with the offending medication may never be made.

The consequence is many years of ongoing surgery, more and more powerful drugs, chronic infections, colostomy bags, days, weeks and months in hospital and a gradual slide into disability that ends with a slow and undignified death well before time. The cost to the health system is measured in the hundreds of thousands of dollars. The cost to the family is immeasurable.

What often blows me away is that the offending medication - the anti-depressant or the blood pressure medication continues to prescribed although the need for it may be long gone!

Modern drugs do have their place; but not when dealing with issues that are mostly to do with our lifestyles and the natural processes of ageing.

Is your blood pressure medication really working?  If you have been prescribed blood pressure medication then you should be monitoring your blood pressure daily with an Omron Blood Pressure Monitor.

Why a personal heart rate and blood pressure monitor can save lives

The modern digital automated blood pressure and heart rate monitor is very useful for people suffering heart or circulation conditions and might even be a life saving tool.
I recommend the Omron brand without hesitation.


Used regularly, these devices give an indication of what is "normal". It will also give an indication of whether heart medication is working or not, or causing harmful side-effects, like low blood pressure. This is extremely valuable information to convey to your Doctor at the next consultation.

It astonishes and dismays me that powerful heart medication is being dished out in ever more numerous prescriptions but without any means of accurate ongoing monitoring of their effect. Especially so when there are so many reliable and affordable devices now available for the patient to use at home and at work. "Take three of these pills daily and let's see how it goes" is sloppy advice to give a patient with a heart condition. There should be daily monitoring for the duration that the patient is on drugs and the technology is available to do this.
These easy to use machines can also help to determine whether that case of "feeling a little under the weather", "indigestion", or "flu" is just that, or something potentially much more sinister like a slow or silent heart attack, requiring the immediate attention of a physician.

These little machines come into their own in the case of an emergency when you really do think someone may be having a heart attack and while you are awaiting the arrival of the paramedics or doctor. You can check their heart rate and blood pressure and convey the results by phone so they will be more prepared when they arrive. It also takes the guesswork out of determining if one must commence cardio plumonary resuscitation (CPR).