The main rant's blog is getting a bit unwieldy so lets keep the medical stuff separate
Managing my health problems is a daily drag, and so keeping a rack on just what is going on is important. That there are competing demands and a lack of coordination between the various applications on my phone has been commented on, and I'll pull those over at some point to keep things together.
This morning I had the usual aggro of the morning's obs not going as they should. The oxygen saturation probe locked up and I had to remove the batteries to get the app to unlock. The reading still has not updated with today's data. I still need to copy the blood pressure readings over to the Samsung health app. That will talk to the monitor, but it duplicates all 120 stored readings every time it does and so I'm only syncing it once a month! These niggles are just a pain and sorting them out seems to be something none of the sellers of the kit are interested in.
The main problem at the moment is just getting a good nights sleep. I've been talking to the AI Chat about it, and both Llama and Mistral do at least agree on some elements, but I'm still having fun with some aspects. The 'sleep diary' is something I was hoping that the smart watch would help with, but it insists that I go to bed by 10PM, but my own cycle I'm trying now is 10:30 to 6:30 which is 8 hours, which is more than enough. That is if I actually slept all of that time. Logging the trips to the toilet is the missing piece here and the watch gave things like REM periods, but missed that I'd got up and was awake all together! Would a £300 watch do any better? I'm not prepared to waste the money, and I appreciated that when I complained about this problem with the watch supplier the refunded the £30 I had paid, so they could take down the review that questioned just hat the watch can do. This is an area that there are lots of discussion going on already.
One area I had not appreciated was the discussion on 'blue light'. I'd seen settings for this on both the TV and the computer without asking about why and now Mistral has explained the implications it all makes sense. But linked to it I'm also trying switching to reading before going to bed, having already moved my target wakeup time from 7AM to 6:30. Setting the alarm clock for that means I don't worry about oversleeping, but if it is making any difference I'm not sure yet. The main problem is actually going to sleep when I get into bed and that is the next search point. The advice targets 'meditation techniques' but just what does that mean? The question for today! One thing I do try to do is stop thinking about things and try to concentrate on 'sleep' which does seem to work.
The other health matters need a conversation with the doctor sometime. Waiting on a repeat blood test as many results were out of the preferred bands on the last one.