Nah. Modern automatic cuffs are adaptive. They tend to first run up pretty low (like 150), see if there is signal. If not then they have to inflate more and more. They tend to determine where to start next time based on the last reading, so if it had the go up to 200 for the last reading it’ll start there next time. If the cuff is a vise, excluding operator error the most likely cause is actually having high blood pressure.
There is another factor that everyone is ignoring here. Some people are just much more sensitive to that kind of pain. If you Lymphadema, or especially Lipodemia, you are much more likely to experience a lot of pain even when a manual sphygmomanometer is being used.
The Omron BP7000 doesn’t hurt me that much, and I measure mine every morning and every evening. But it does hurt my wife, and she has both conditions.
