The Anonymous Widower

Can You Measure Blood Pressure At The Ankle?

Consider.

• As long, as I can remember my left foot has always been larger than my right.
• Over the last few years increasingly, my left foot has often been a stronger shade of red, than my right.
• I also know, that after my stroke a specialist physiotherapist found that my left leg was stronger than my right.

I also know that I have a strange leaky skin.

• I had my stroke in 2010 in Hong Kong and was looked after in a private Chinese hospital.
• They were very strict and measured all the bodily fluids, that I passed.
• They didn’t collect any urine, so they accused me of throwing all my water away.
• I was not guilty, as I was drinking it all.

So they fitted me with a catheter and guess what? They still didn’t collect anything.

It was evidence that my skin is not good at holding water.

So why do I want to measure the blood pressure at my ankle? Or in fact both ankles.

In my ICI days in the 1960s and 1970s, I was helping chemical engineers to understand chemical plants and reactions, by looking at flows and pressures in the various pipes of the plant or experimental rig.

But I do wonder, if the red nature of my left foot, is due to some sort of irregularity in the blood flow to my left leg.

June 20, 2025 - Posted by AnonW | Health | Chinese Healthcare, Hong Kong, ICI, My Skin, Stroke, Urine