21 March 2025

I'm slowly getting to grips with just what the new Watch4 can achieve and what it can't. Much as I have established with the other monitoring devices. That none of them actually agree on a single figure for say pulse rate, and while the watch is monitoring that at 10 minutes intervals, it has problems when my heart is in it's erratic mode and fails to record anything. Over night the oxygen level is similarly erratic and while it records that it drops below 90% it can't say for how long. I need a couple more days of figures before the cleaver stuff will kick in, not that I expect anything useful. I am hopeful that I can retire at least some of the kit and just consolidate on the information contained in the Samsung Health app even if I have had to give in and allow it to throw all that data over the 'cloud' simply to get my local kit talking to one another. I should NOT have to agree to that and there should be a local system to replace 'the cloud'. It would be different of cause if that cloud was actually talking to the NHS cloud and not just a Samsung only global space. I am going to switch off two of the NHS apps this weekend having finally hit my 75kg weight target although I still need to loose a little more to get below a BMI of 25.

Getting a good nights sleep and tracking that was the intention of the original smart watch and the main reason for getting the new one. So far I'm seeing 'good' as a responce, and it seems at least to be tagging when I have got up over night. Something that the cheaper watch failed to do. This morning I woke around 4:30 again and then had problems dropping back off. The NHS help says 'If you are still awake after 20 minutes then better to get up', which is also the advice that the chat bot eventually agreeded with. The problem is working out when 20 minutes have elapsed, but by 5:15 I switched the light on and read for an hour. Quarter passed six I did try and get a few more minutes sleep, but probably too late by then. I do have a projection clock which displays the time on the ceiling large enough that I can see it without glasses, and in future I will give in quicker and read, so that I could perhaps have a longer nap before the 6:30 alarm clock call.

I do need to spend a bit of time digesting the rest of the Every Mind Matters emails although the one thing that the watch does confirm is that my 'stress level' is stuck at the lowest point. Am I stressed? Only in so far as various things irritate me daily, but that is not what I accept is 'stressful' ...