Breakup, as captured by my fitbit • Hacker News Board

Re: Breakup, as captured by my fitbit

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Post by sulam » Wed, Jan 20, 2016, 1:15 AM UTC

munificent wrote: post #47

trjordan wrote: post #13

Getting a puppy, as captured by my fitbit: http://i.imgur.com/j9FTleb.png I love my Charge HR for this sort of stuff. It gives me data to double-check my sense of "Something seems off, am I always this stressed?" Days where I'm antsy all day tend to be days I have a higher resting heart rate. Days when I have a higher resting heart rate tend to come after a couple nights of less-than-stellar sleep. It's easy to guess…

> It's easy to guess that being antsy all day is nervous energy from work, but if it only happens after 4 days of 6.5 hours of sleep... the fix isn't to work on my resting heart rate via meditation, it's to get more sleep. Holy crap. You may have just changed my life.

The biggest change in my life from getting a ChargeHR was realizing that, after 5 years of having a child (and then children) in my daily life, I was wayyyy more sleep-deprived than I realized. The newborn phase was obvious -- you're having to get up every couple hours and getting back to having a "full" night's sleep feels really awesome. But it turns out I _never_ got back to a full night's sleep, because having kids means I wake up earlier than I used to and the result is that I was constantly getting about 30 minutes less sleep than I really needed. I made a change to when I go to bed, and after 4 or 5 days of really getting a lot of sleep it was like going from a foggy day to sunshine in my mind.

(full disclosure: I now work for Fitbit!)

Re: Breakup, as captured by my fitbit

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Post by DenisM » Wed, Jan 20, 2016, 1:58 AM UTC

lumpypua wrote: post #105

DenisM wrote: post #98

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I swear by my Resmed AutoSet S10. They have too many S10 models, so be sure to get the AutoSet (or higher), as it dials the pressure up and down. I'm kicking myself for sticking with an older S8 model for far too long, all the misery I endured was entirely unnecessary! Proper pressure is the key to compliance. This machine has auto-set, so the minimal required pressure is used; it has better algorithms for it (compar…

Thanks for the extensive answer! I did an at-home CPAP trial after a sleep and they gave me some POS machine and I hated it. Unfortunately getting anything more fancy is going to require jumping through insurance hoops. rolleyes Pretty new to this whole thing. My posture definitely makes a big difference, I'm at 9 AHI sleeping on my side but 50+ on my back untreated. I'm gonna duct tape pillows to myself or something…

Pay cash. You can get a refurb at $600. It's totally worth it.

Speaking side-sleeping, I have sewn a sock with a tennis ball to the back of my sleeping tshirt. It worked well, but it's hard to wash. So I bought this contraption: https://www.amazon.com/stream/ref=nav_upnav_mobile_T2_Detail...

Side-sleeping is a big deal, but it's even better with a neck pillow.

Re: Breakup, as captured by my fitbit

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Post by brandonb » Wed, Jan 20, 2016, 2:05 AM UTC

hellofunk wrote: post #88

Would an Apple Watch also capture these interesting moments the same as a fitbit? I don't have either, but find it quite interesting.

Yes—Apple Watch records your heart rate every 10 minutes during the day, and every five seconds when you put it in workout mode.

For example, here's what my heart rate looked like during the Game of Thrones finale: https://cardiogr.am/c/gameofthronesfinale

Re: Breakup, as captured by my fitbit

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Post by vinceguidry » Wed, Jan 20, 2016, 2:08 AM UTC

pmalynin wrote: post #15

funkysquid wrote: post #8

This is fascinating (and sad), but it makes me wonder, could police use your fitness tracker as a sort of poor-mans polygraph? i.e. interview a subject normally, and then get a warrant (or not get a warrant) to view the online data and correlate them after the fact? Wikipedia mentions "blood pressure, pulse, respiration, and skin conductivity" as parameters for a polygraph [1], and while fitbit only supports 2/4 righ…

The polygraph is shit for chirst's sake. Clench your anus and it will mess up it up. Polygraphs have time and time again have been shows to be ineffective, and yet people still keep advocating for them.

Newer machines detect clenching and the practitioner will tell you to stop.

Re: Breakup, as captured by my fitbit

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Post by brlewis » Wed, Jan 20, 2016, 2:16 AM UTC

CWuestefeld wrote: post #86

myth_buster wrote: post #32

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Got a badge for climbing 33 stairs + a plethora of others, while in actuality I was riding my motorcycle.

Mine has never registered a stair climb, despite my office being on the third story of the building, and I typically park on the 4th or 5th floor of the garage. Its sleep stats are also laughable. It's shown me as sleeping right through the time I was showering and cooking breakfast.

That's not normal. You may have a defective unit.

Re: Breakup, as captured by my fitbit

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Post by bostonpete » Wed, Jan 20, 2016, 2:21 AM UTC

ianamartin wrote: post #75

ihsw wrote: post #19

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That sounds like an excellent way to freak people out and preemptively break up.

It absolutely could. This past weekend I was really worried about getting broken up with. My gf had been withdrawn and was communicating less and acting awkward in various noticeable ways that I interpreted from experience as an impending breakup, especially since she was just about to leave for a week to go to Brazil for a week with 3 single girlfriends who want to party. I was pretty sure that I was toast when she…

She probably chickened out at the last minute. Don't worry, she'll work up the nerve one of these days... ;-)

Re: Breakup, as captured by my fitbit

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Post by PhasmaFelis » Wed, Jan 20, 2016, 2:40 AM UTC

lectrick wrote: post #53

trjordan wrote: post #13

Getting a puppy, as captured by my fitbit: http://i.imgur.com/j9FTleb.png I love my Charge HR for this sort of stuff. It gives me data to double-check my sense of "Something seems off, am I always this stressed?" Days where I'm antsy all day tend to be days I have a higher resting heart rate. Days when I have a higher resting heart rate tend to come after a couple nights of less-than-stellar sleep. It's easy to guess…

Welcome to my sleep-apnea life. The CPAP is only partially effective due to (surprise, surprise) a new allergy to... well, everything airborne, seemingly, including house dust... and even though Allegra does a decent job, sometimes I unconsciously take the thing off in my sleep, and proceed to have a much shittier sleep: http://i.imgur.com/f9oHjqQ.png

I don't know if this helps, but most people have to try a few different CPAP masks before they find one that's really comfortable for them. This is pretty much the normal usage pattern, and most insurance that covers CPAP at all also cover multiple masks, so I don't know why doctors don't push it more.

For the record, there should not be any air hissing out around the edges of your mask. If there is, you either need to get a different mask or at least adjust the straps on your current one. My experience is that full-face masks absolutely don't work with a beard; a nasal pillow mask works much better, but I do need to keep my mustache trimmed short or it chafes a bit.

Also, I don't know much about the allergy angle, but you're theoretically supposed to change the air filter regularly; there might be filter options designed for allergy sufferers.

Re: Breakup, as captured by my fitbit

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Post by lectrick » Wed, Jan 20, 2016, 2:41 AM UTC

DenisM wrote: post #87

lectrick wrote: post #53

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Welcome to my sleep-apnea life. The CPAP is only partially effective due to (surprise, surprise) a new allergy to... well, everything airborne, seemingly, including house dust... and even though Allegra does a decent job, sometimes I unconsciously take the thing off in my sleep, and proceed to have a much shittier sleep: http://i.imgur.com/f9oHjqQ.png

Do you have the latest CPAP machine? The latest generation is a dramatic improvement over the older generations, especially with the exhale relief, this yields less discomfort and more compliance. I can't recommend it enough.

Mine's about 4 years old or so (?), perhaps I need to upgrade.

yeah, the newer ResMeds do look quite a bit more high-tech lol. I have a ResMed S8 Elite (https://www.google.com/search?q=resmed+S8&tbm=isch) with humidifier (the latter DOES make a noticeable difference).

Re: Breakup, as captured by my fitbit

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Post by lectrick » Wed, Jan 20, 2016, 2:42 AM UTC

PhasmaFelis wrote: post #117

lectrick wrote: post #53

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Welcome to my sleep-apnea life. The CPAP is only partially effective due to (surprise, surprise) a new allergy to... well, everything airborne, seemingly, including house dust... and even though Allegra does a decent job, sometimes I unconsciously take the thing off in my sleep, and proceed to have a much shittier sleep: http://i.imgur.com/f9oHjqQ.png

I don't know if this helps, but most people have to try a few different CPAP masks before they find one that's really comfortable for them. This is pretty much the normal usage pattern, and most insurance that covers CPAP at all also cover multiple masks, so I don't know why doctors don't push it more. For the record, there should not be any air hissing out around the edges of your mask. If there is, you either need…

Nasal pillow mask is (relatively) the bomb IMHO. Don't even try anything else, you will be disappointed.

Good point about the air filter; I need to get a new one

Re: Breakup, as captured by my fitbit

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Post by jxm262 » Wed, Jan 20, 2016, 2:44 AM UTC

thedz wrote: post #2

I once left my fitbit in the wash (and then dryer) and was wondering why I was suddenly getting all these "congrats on hitting your steps goal!" alerts on my phone.

Wow , thought I was the only one. I accidentally left mine in the washer/dryer the other day. Was expecting it to be broken, it came out with 4,000 steps :)