Atrial Fibrillation and high blood presssure

[texastom]

I have atrial fibrillation and would like to know whether an electronic blood pressure moniter is affected by this condition when it is endeavouring to take a bp reading.....

[Brooke_38]

Hello...

Having Afib should not effect results of your BP

As the monitor is counting down...if you are currently in afib, the pattern of beeps you hear will sound irregular.

[ebjb]

I also have Atrial Fibrillation and when my heart rhythm is too fast/irregular it affects my bp monitor which just doesn't take a reading - it keeps trying again. Same thing happens in my GP surgery with their monitor. The only one that works is the one where they put the sleeve around my upper arm and inflate with the hand pump.

[twinbee]

I have a wrist BP monitor and a arm cuff one. On occasion when I was in a-fib the wrist monitor would not read. It would state "error" and automatically try again, I did not have that kind of problem whenever I used the cuff monitor.

[ebjb]

Twinbee, that is exactly what happened with my wrist BP monitor - when in Afig it would not read and would state 'error' and automatically try again. I don't have an arm cuff monitor but my GP surgery does and it always read with that one, but not with their wrist monitor.  I guess texastom that is what your initial question was asking?