I went to the doctor yesterday to get some test results back. I'm kind of a big gal, so they borrowed a large cuff from next door(this indicated to me that they don't often take blood pressure on large people). The nurse wrapped the cuff very tightly around my upper left arm and pumped it up to full capacity, actually holding on to it to stop it from coming off. She could not hear my heart however, and proceed to pump it up to the point of it being very painful two more times until she got a reading. She got a slightly high reading(the first in my life, even after I'd just had it read a month ago at a different office and it was perfectly fine).
About an hour after this took place, I had pain in my upper left arm, just above where the cuff was. I can push on the spot and make it hurt and I tried to stretch it out and applied some muscle cream, but nothing seems to work.
I'm wondering if something is now damaged, or if muscle was pulled or what? Thank You.