Omron Heart Sure Automatic Blood Pressure Monitor BP100

BP100 armband was almost unusable as shipped - I can't recommend it – The armband is much too small (It's text says "22cm - 32 cm"). I can get it up my upper arm, but cannot wrap the Velcro around to tighten it for normal use. I have to already squeeze my arm to do so. So there's not enough length or Velcro surface to get a proper grip around the arm (without crushing it first). The armband is also quite narrow, needs to be about 3 cm wider for comfort, and to provide more Velco gripping strength so it doesn't slip. I have a fairly average size male upper-arm. This armband design has rendered the device almost unusable as purchased.

But I have got it to work via really crushing the cuff around my arm first, which I suspect will not be very accurate, and the Velcro can barely get a grip. Obviously the Velcro will wear out very fast doing that.

But the unit does work and my current GP has the same BP100 on his desk, but he added a full-size arm-band to it to fit all patients. So if you're an average size male and buy one of these, it will work well, but you will need to order and pay for a separate full-sized arm-band in order to use it. Which is unacceptable I reckon.

On the plus side, with the larger cuff this unit does produce very comparable results to what other machine's that other doctors and nurses use to measure my BP. So it does work well with the larger cuff arm-band fitted.

All the manufacturer had to do was make the arm-band about 10 cm longer and maybe 2 to 3 cm wider, and it would have worked. Now I'm down $100, with no working blood-pressure monitor.

One last thing, I see Omron sell a bunch of different models of blood pressure monitors, but these all seem to have the same display data and to do exactly the same things, in the same ways. So don't go paying $170 for the "top of the line" model when you can get the exact same results with a much cheaper but still just as accurate model.

Order a better more comfortable arm-band instead which is what I'm currently doing via my pharmacy to get this BP100 working properly for me after ~8 months of being nearly useless. I expect this will finally get it working, but resent having to do that and pay even more.

There's no excuse for the original armband being so small when the people who usually buy and use these are adults.

Model Number: BP100 [HEM-7122-AU] Serial Number: 2021 1000604VG