Questions from a learner

[Tilly]

Hi everyone, I was diagnosed last month and still have a lot to learn so hope you don't mind if I pick your brains.
Sometimes when I have my blood pressure taken the pain from the cuff tightening is out of all proportion and is
hard to bear, so could this be PR pain?
Another question is, I get pain in my typing finger joint and in my arm if I try to play Wii games or any other repetitive
things, like knitting, does repeated movements cause the PR to flare up/cause pain.
Does doing ordinary things like going to visit relatives etc completely wipe you out the next day?
Thanks in advance, tilly xx

[katie]

Tilly, for me the blood pressure cuff depends on who is doing it, and the size of the cuff. Everyone but my GP uses a small cuff that makes my arm ache. I get pain from handwork and the Wii but that is from osteo arthritis, not PR. Visiting relatives does wipe me out for at least a day. I even get that after being with people I like.

[Kanderson]

Tilly...sorry Toots the cuff is a screamer....it needs to go tight to get the correct pressure reading.

[Tilly]

Hi ladies, thankyou for replying.

Thing is with the blood pressure cuff is, that this is way outside the normal ouch you get when the cuff is blown up a tad high.

It's difficult to explain but it's real agony sometimes but just the normal blood pressure cuff other times. It's nothing

to do with how far it blows up-just a gentle pressure sometimes is enough for tears to spring into my eyes. It feels like a car has run over my arm.

I was thinking it's maybe to do with a "PR flair," I have to have my BP checked pretty regularly and it's been fine except for the last

2/3 years that has maybe coincided with the PR taking off.