I'm going to put this here and maybe the "Stop eating sugar" thread.
I've railed on this before and it still pissed me off today.
A little over 3 years ago and I had my first bad blood pressure reading ever and it was something like 140/90. It's what put me on the straight and narrow (diet and exercise). For the longest time it wouldn't come down regardless of what I did and I was monitoring it at home from time to time.
Then I went to a new doc who checked it the old fashion way and I was 110/70. I was floored. I told him the story and he told me that the automated machines are always high. He showed me by taking a reading on my other arm 5 minutes later and it was 140/90.
I recently had my annual test with my insurance company (we get reward points for good numbers and that means cash money) and they used the automated sleeve. I was of course 140/90 and when I asked for a manual reading they looked at me like I was on fire. So the shitty number went in the system. I am however able to get retested whenever I like so I went back to the new doc and I'm at 115/62, basically Superman.
Moral of the story - **** those automated sleeves!
