Am I the only one who hates blood pressure machines?

[MIButterfly]

5. No you are definitely not the only one

Those blood pressure machines hurt like hell and I hate them. I much prefer the manual ones that the medical assistants pump up themselves.

Every time I go to the doctor, my blood pressure is slightly higher than the doctor would like because I'm so apprehensive and nervous, so they always take it again at the end of my appointment. So I have to have to go through it twice! Once they did it three times and got three different numbers. They couldn't get it down to where they wanted it to be so they just took the lowest reading. Once the doctor scared me so much during my appointment that it was actually 10 points HIGHER at the end.