What Diabetes

by Lester Caine
8 August 2025
Posted to Health Matters

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 is progress. The Watch8 will be here next week and we will see if that does any better in monitoring my sleep patterns. The Watch4 is currently out of calibration on blood pressure and refuses to recalibrate. It also fails to monitor that I AM asleep. It only recorded 3 hours 39 minutes last night, but then it started logging at 1AM whilst I'd been sound asleep since 10:30PM. The HRV value is now being recorded differently, but without an actual sinus rhythm I doubt even that value. Still the 24 hour ECG had some nice messy periods so hopefully the hospital will get back and discuss all of the problems properly.