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[fatmisia]
In my attempts to get a reliable way to check my blood pressure at home, I'm increasingly convinced that maybe medicine just...does not actually know how to check our blood pressure at all
In my attempts to get a reliable way to check my blood pressure at home, I'm increasingly convinced that maybe medicine just...does not actually know how to check our blood pressure at all
[fatmisia]
Maybe it's not so much "[fatness] causes hypertension" so much as "medicine doesn't actually have a reliable way to measure fat people's blood pressure"
(Obviously fat people are valid whether or not we're considered "healthy", just. I am frustrated by this.)
Maybe it's not so much "[fatness] causes hypertension" so much as "medicine doesn't actually have a reliable way to measure fat people's blood pressure"
(Obviously fat people are valid whether or not we're considered "healthy", just. I am frustrated by this.)
[fatmisia]
There's like one manufacturer that claims to have made a home blood pressure testing machine that will reliably check fat people's blood pressure
But it of course costs way more than like every other home BP device
There's like one manufacturer that claims to have made a home blood pressure testing machine that will reliably check fat people's blood pressure
But it of course costs way more than like every other home BP device
[fatmisia, medical BS]
Thinking of all the medical providers who have made a big deal about switching to a larger cuff size like it's a giant burden or something
And also the ones who cut corners and do not switch the cuff size
Thinking of all the medical providers who have made a big deal about switching to a larger cuff size like it's a giant burden or something
And also the ones who cut corners and do not switch the cuff size
[fatmisia]
The medical providers who just automatic reach for a bigger BP cuff and don't make a big deal about it are, IME, the ones who are also fat
(And like 95% of the time they're also Black women, who have to deal with Fatmisia plus misogynoir)
The medical providers who just automatic reach for a bigger BP cuff and don't make a big deal about it are, IME, the ones who are also fat
(And like 95% of the time they're also Black women, who have to deal with Fatmisia plus misogynoir)
