Blood Pressure Log

[Dietcoke]

I'm surprised that an app that has so many great features is missing one critical component of fitness.  A blood pressure log.  It couldn't be that difficult to add a space to manually log that information.  Is fitbit only supposed to be for the young who don't have to worry about those things or is a device for everyone?  Baby boomers want to stay healthy too and healthy blood pressure is critical.

I may have to look at other fitness trackers if they have that feature.  

[Bruce555]

Don't know how it saved them money to remove it....it was nice having it and makes me think twice about purchasing a fourth fitbit

[jt_stl]

I like the idea. I record my BP in Excel, but everything else through the FitBit dashboard. I didn't know the feature of manually recording BP ever existed. Maybe that is why it didn't get much use. It does sound useful. Especially if Fitbit is trying to move in the direction of supplying gear to corporate wellness programs.

[MMinty]

And Blood Glucose! Please Please!

[BillyBoy3]

The ability to track BP and Glucose with the other data in the FitBit account would be of great value to me.

I think FitBit's target is the young, but us baby boomers represent a mighty big market in addition to younger folks with health issues.

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[Tony.r]

Hello all I found this existing  suggestion  over on the Feature Suggestions Board and it would certainly be worth adding your support  by voting for it. 

[davidr54]

I use the Google Fit app to store my blood pressure. It's free and can be downloaded at the Playstore. I'm hoping sometime day soon it won't be necessary to take this extraneous step.

[Phuket]

You aren't 

[Berrybrow]

I am also suprised that I can't log my own specific health related data. Come on Fitbit, make a bit more space available on your database system.

[K1w1b0y]

I wasn’t surprised to find this thread, but disappointed that no further progress has been made with the good suggestions. I like an all-in-one solution to tracking fitness data and - to reiterate others - adding a simple, manual log to the app, which users can choose to take or leave - seems like a no-brainer. Sleep, activity and HR impacts BP and insights could be more easily and efficiently gleaned by having the data in one place. Might look at the google app that somebody suggested. 

[Dietcoke]

Having it all in one place would allow you to make correlations between your blood pressure, the food you eat, and your workouts. I went from three blood pressure medications a day to no medication because I’ve managed my blood pressure through diet and exercise. Let’s keep it all in one place.

JP

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[Bruce555]

Saddest part of all this.....they had it.
I was using it then on an update it was removed.
I'm now using a Galaxy fit. Was a loyal fitbit customer having purchased 3.

[Pavelpapa]

Use Google Fit. It allow to record blood pressure manually

[ROBERAL]

Just on top of all said, let us bear in mind that Fitbit is not only for super healthy people, there are also people with the desire of getting in shape, and among those, it is possible to find people with hypertension and with sugar problems. I am sure getting all your health information in a single place is a great idea. The hypertensive people would like to follow the trend to observe what is the improvement, the same from the sugar level. It does not have to be in the device, but definitively in the dashboard.  It could a disclaimer anywhere expressing that the information on this area is added manually without any relation with any of the devices or any other tracking information.

The big question is the Fitbit team disposed to do so?

[Flynz]

Of course the dreaded Apple Watch has this and many more features.  I have deliberately gone away from the Apple platform with a Fitbit.  The other day my doctor told me to get a basic Omron and start to log my blood pressure.  Fitbit is certainly lacking in this respect.  Health monitoring is a bit basic really. Disappointing. 

[Muzh]

I think even younger users of Fitbit could benefit from a blood pressure log. I've had issues with low blood pressure since my early 20s, it would be nice to have a place to log it and since they don't have a device that monitors blood pressure an ability to sync to popular blood pressure devices like Withings and others. 

[PatCat]

Funny enough that they now offer blood glucose tracking but not blood pressure.

[Nolins]

Do you get the feeling that the Fitbit people don't read any of this?

[MKentB]

They certainly haven’t acted upon it. Now there are Bluetooth connected
blood pressure machine that record this for you. I’ve made the switch to
Apple Watch. It’s much more functional. --
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Kent Burel
2101 Summerbrook Circle
Unit 2115
Athens, GA 30606

[K1w1b0y]

While I have apple-everything-else, I’m still leery of switching to the low-batt nightmare (pun intended) of Apple Watch for sleep stats... not wild about not being able to migrate years of Fitbit data to that device and its app either. I’ve been using a free-with-ads bp app called ‘bp monitor’ twice a day since I moaned about this lack of Fitbit functionality... and it hasn’t been the end of the world.

K

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[Dietcoke]

I’ve been using Smart BP.