Can I mess up my blood pressure readings with arm cuffs, ibuprofen?

https://biologyinsights.com/how-quickly-does-ibuprofen-raise-blood-pressure/
Long-term, yes, for one or two doses, not really. I'm not medically trained, but this is my opinion. Nobody should take medicines of any kind long-term and in largely modified recommended doses until they consult a physician.

@ehdog Occasional use of ibuprofen should be safe if your hypertension is controlled and you don't have other issues like ulcers, liver or kidney dysfunction, then it should ONLY be used as advised by your doctors.

At your next appointment, it might be good to talk to your doctor about whether ibuprofen is okay for you, and if so at what dosage and how often.

I'm fat. My arm is fat . I also have hypertension.Naturally cuffs are a bit tight on me even bigger onesBut how do I know if it's too tight? Is there a thing??I just wanna make sure I'm doing my blood pressure right. I would hate if I was doing it wrong and I messed up my readings.

Also am I wearing my cuff high enough?

@ehdog

It's too tight if it's making your arm numb before it even starts inflating or if it doesn't wrap around your arm at all.

It's also high enough. There's nothing you've described that suggests you're doing it wrong.

@ashlynnmae

How do you know when it's NOT tight enough when it inflates? The issue is the top doesn't feel right enough

@ehdog

We know it's not tight enough if the machine is consistently giving error messages and if you can comfortably slide your entire finger under the cuff without much effort while it's on at its tightest.

Due to the arm's shape, all arms, and due to the cuff's geometry, it doesn't matter as long as you can get the cuff on and the Velcro to catch. If that happens, and it's not badly askew, or the Velcro keeps peeling itself away, then you're good. The machine goes to a certain pressure, an upper limit, and then bleeds off the air until it begins to detect the systolic pressure. That's your systolic, and it continues to bleed off air until it can't detect your diastolic pressure...those beats. Those are your numbers...period.

The cuff does have to be worn in a certain position, though....it matters. The literature will describe where to put the 'arrow', which way the arrow should face (usually toward the wrist), and there's a sign indicating where the sensor is. The sensor should be over the brachial artery. This means the spot where they say to place the sensor, or place the 'line'....whatever the instrument YOU have says is the sensing spot, at the base of the bicep muscle. Not near the elbow...not THAT base, but the bottom edge of the elongated muscle. If you do an arm flex, and feel along the bony are of your upper arm, just below that bunched up muscle...that's where the sensor should be.

You might take it with you to your next doctor's appointment and have the help

I would talk with your doctor about getting a larger blood pressure cough. They do have many different sizes and I think depending on your medical insurance they might be covered and you need to go to a medical store. As I have trouble because they keep wanting to use this very big one fat and cardiology told me an adult long for me, but I am sure you need the next size up.
I wish you the best because I don’t know where you live and you can check Amazon and see if they have a longer cough. I’ll talk to your doctor first.