Health Matters

The new Watch8 turned up Friday and after topping up the charge I tried it on. The fabric strap and it's thinner design is certainly a lot more comfortable, but I think I actually preferred the mechanical twist ring to access stuff. No doubt I will get used to swiping around the edge of the glass, but I keep hitting things I don't actually want to open. At least MOST of what I am using was transferred from the old phone although I still need to find out how to get the old alarm tone a…

Last years diabetic check the question was asked as to if I still had a classification of being diabetic and the answer was that it was difficult to say since the drugs I'm on for the heart problem affect the results. None of my meds are FOR diabetes, but some are the same ones that I could be given. This years results now that I'm within a couple of kilos of an 'ideal weight' were much more decisive and I've been signed off the Diabetes. That just leaves the heart and knee problems, but it i…

The Samsung kit has always been a problem. The watch is not really up to monitoring my own heart problem although the recorded data has up until now been very helpful even if the nannying is totally off. Up until the 27/6/2025 I could rely on the HRV values to give me an indication as to which mode my heart had been in over night. A morning 30BPM indicates the messy mode with a high HRV and broad spread of pulse rate over night. A 50+BPM was a good indication that there was a sinus rhythm and…

After some weeks of messy heart rhythm I'm actually back in something approaching sinus and pulse rate has crept up a little. So it was something of a surprise when I finally collected my meds today ( should have been Friday :( ) that I had an extra one. The Bisoprolol Fumarate, which is designed to reduce pulse rate, had been added back in. Given that the last time I was on it I had problems where a ambulances had been called a few times, I don't think I will be taking it and the pap…

I had posted an update a couple of days ago, but due to distractions caused by other technology not working I failed to save it and can't even remember just what was in that post.

The main part was the failure of the Samsung Watch4 to record that I HAD been asleep in the previous nights and it's nannying that I needed to wear it at night ... which I had been! The problem I think I have is that my heart rate is too low normally for the watch to accurately use it to monitor sl…