Health Matters

Has it really been two weeks since I tried to start this? A lot has gone on in that time such as completing my physio course only to find that I had not needed to do the whole 20 weeks. Now I am on a new 20 week course, but I intend to replace it by some extra steps in my new moring exercise session which includes a 10 minute HIIT session to get my heart rate up. That I can't get proper support from the NHS to help sort out just what I SHOULD be doing to help both my Leg and my Heart is p…

This post would be just as well paced in the ran't column as it's something I've been having to contend with for years. Time zone's and in particular daylight saving has plagued computer systems for years, and even today some systems do not automatically change the time offset as required and one has to manually fix the time, just like any analogue clock. In the 1990's I was working on timetabling systems for the always, and many of the older systems could not actually run…

Now that I have a weeks worth of readings via the watch I'm thinking where to go next. My heart runs in two modes, good and bad, although the bad mode may not be consistent. A bad pulse is characterised by a strong first pulse followed by a poor second pulse and a delay with a basic rate in the 30BPM range. There may well be a few good pulses between each bad pulse, but first thing in the morning they tend to be all bad. I've just done my physio on my right knee and that seems to get…

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…

Trying to monitor just how interrupted my sleep is I've bitten the bullet and picked up a Galaxy Watch4 Classic reconditioned unit to keep the price down. It was supplied with a new silicon strap, but that has already broken and I think that is contributing to the failures in taking readings via it. The initial problem was that the watch needed to be updated, and initially I could not see how to action that, but eventually it started some large downloads. It took me a little while to…