9 September 2025
Been a while since I updated the health log and I should perhaps make sure I do it a little more often. I have just finished my morning 'physio/warm-up' session, a little later than normal as I was deep in trying to finish another piece of the software jigsaw. One of the problems I have is with my memory and this morning I was doing the warm-up and simply could not remember the next step a couple of times. I'd had a poor nights sleep again caused probably mainly because I've been liaising with the investigator from the Legal Ombudsman in my complaint about my last solicitor. It's taken almost 2 years to get to that point, and now it's a matter of sorting out just what parts of my complains can be investigated. I fired off an email at 5:30AM that fired the gun on the next stage, so back into waiting mode ...
The Watch8 has been less helpful than I had hoped. For one thing it has actioned things like switching the phone to 'Do not disturb' when I was waiting for a call which I missed, and then I lost 20 hours of data as it had switched to power save mode. Problems I never had with the Watch4. I still can't get it to calibrate the blood pressure mode and is't new vascular test has also failed so far to gather 3 nights of data as a base line. I probably do not have grounds to complain as it has been made clear that neither watch can come with erratic pulse rate. None of my monitoring devices produce results that a trust since currently my heart is in it's 2 pulses then baulk mode. My rhythm is actually fairly stable, it's just that the gaps between good pulses varies substantially. The two good pulses are about a second apart, then there is an almost 2 second gap to the next good pulse. The 'pulse' in between is just messy and one can not feel a pulse manually. Using the blood pressure cuff I can feel and see on the display the interrupted pattern. Is it an actual problem? I don't know, but having got use to the discomfort in my chest I just put up with it. It is annoying that I DID sleep better for the couple of weeks that I was in clean sinus rhythm and I just want to get back to that! The one thing that the Watch ECG is consistent with is "You had an irregular heart rhythm other than atrial fibrillation." while my health professionals say I do have atrial fibrillation.
Is the exercise helping? Well I try and complete the same basic patter each day to meet my 'targets', but my body does not help. Yesterday I managed 45 minutes of Raised HR activity, something that the watch IS displaying which the Watch4 did not. 10 minutes of that was during the 20 minutes of physio, but today I barely hit 30 second. Some days even after my 50 or so minutes walk I have hit the 20 minute mark, then on other days doing the same routine I'm lucky to top 10. Over the week I am hitting the recommended 150 minutes added to which while I have averaged the old 10000 steps at times, I have no problem with 8000 a day. I'll get out in a bit and do today's, but waiting on DPD delivering a replacement for the failed TV which is due in the next hour, so I should be out on time.
One thing that has been going right is my weight and I am now down below 71.5kg which I set as the latest target. Have to keep calories below 1700 otherwise it just goes up again and it would be nice if I could reliably exceed the exercise calories target to perhaps let me eat a treat more often, but I will aim to slide below 70Kg before Christmas so I can pig out a bit!