Using your blood pressure monitor
Your Lloydspharmacy blood pressure monitor is easy to use at home. Simply place the cuff on your arm – ensuring that it is level with your heart – then inflate it by pressing the start button and relax and wait for your results. Your blood pressure test gives you two readings:
Systolic blood pressure reading
This is when blood pressure is at its highest – when your heart beats to pump the blood.
Diastolic blood pressure reading
Always a lower reading, this is your blood pressure when your heart relaxes between beats.
What does your reading mean? If you have measured your blood pressure at home please enter your blood pressure below:
And if you have a blood pressure monitor or are considering buying one, you can measure your blood pressure at home and input results into this tool, specially designed to offer advice for at home readings.
