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Hi Jenjen -
Can you take your pulse some other way to double check against the treadmills you use? Before I had a strap-on heart rate monitor I would just feel my pulse at my carotid artery and count the beats in a 5 second interval and multiply by 12 (or for ten seconds and multiply by 6).
I'm willing to bet that if you feel your own pulse, it won't be as "all over" as it appears on the treadmill - I also have one of the hand sensor pulse monitor thingies on my treadmill, but I never use the thing because it's so inaccurate. If my grip isn't just right, or if my hands aren't conducting/transmitting my pulse in the right way, my readings were also all over the map.
Another option would be to see if you can find a treadmill at the gym that uses a radio transmitter kind of like the strap-on monitors, transmitting your pulse to the treadmill for display - I know some gyms have that.
You could also go get yourself a Polar heart monitor - they aren't as cheap as they used to be with all the bells and whistles on them now, but it can lend a lot of peace of mind right away when you can have that instant feedback.
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