Humor will not be tolerated!! -Portia

Do any of you all have experience measuring your blood pressure at home?

Nope, but I got it done at Target. It was very good. :D

Oh, congrats. Mine is always terrible, every time, every where. (Except maybe not at home, so I'm going to try it at home.)

mic0 wrote:Oh, congrats. :) Mine is always terrible, every time, every where. (Except maybe not at home, so I'm going to try it at home.)

Awwwww. I think it must be largely genetic. Yoga might have helped mine, but otherwise, no idea why it's so good.

My cholesterol, on the other hand, I don't even know if I want to know.

I learned how to do it my Sophomore or Junior year of high school. So clearly I'm an expert. Come on over. With the stuff.

My mom's always had high blood pressure. Except when pregnant with me, she had low blood pressure. And I've always had low blood pressure (though not an excellent heart rate, which I attribute to rarely exercising). I've often wondered if the two were related. Then again, my mom said she ate a lot of chocolate with the three oldest, who all have brown hair. Then she didn't eat any with the youngest three and we were all blond or red-headed. I'm a little more skeptical of that correlation.

Portia, I think it is largely genetic, too.

DL, I would if I still lived in UT! Thanks for the offer, though. Your mom has quite the theory going there, haha - maybe I should stop eating chocolate? O_o'

At the doctor, he asked me if I drink a lot of coffee or anything, which was funny to me because compared to four years ago I *do* drink a lot of coffee (anything more than 0 is a lot!), but in reality I probably drink 1 cup of coffee every other month. It was hard to answer.

mic0 wrote:At the doctor, he asked me if I drink a lot of coffee or anything, which was funny to me because compared to four years ago I *do* drink a lot of coffee (anything more than 0 is a lot!), but in reality I probably drink 1 cup of coffee every other month. It was hard to answer.

Bahaha I'm doing good if I just have one a day ...

I got asked that today, too. When I said I have a LOT of caffeine, the researcher seemed surprised that a latte a day was a "lot."

Hasn't hurt my blood pressure!