Your doctor or nurse may want to measure your blood pressure regularly by using a home blood pressure monitor. This is to make sure that your medicines or lifestyle changes are helping to bring your blood pressure down.

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Also, you may want to measure your blood pressure yourself at home for your own records. This can be very useful, for a number of reasons:

• It can give a picture of what your blood pressure is like as you go about your daily life

• You can see if your blood pressure is higher in the clinic than it is at home

• You can see how well your medicines and lifestyle changes are working for you

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Many people find that using a home blood pressure monitor to track their blood pressure helps them feel more in control of their condition. Home monitoring can also give your doctor or nurse a more complete picture of what your blood pressure is like from day to day.

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For more information about Home BP monitoring, please read this booklet:

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If you would like to monitor your own BP, please use this diary and hand it

in at the reception: