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Re: Breakup, as captured by my fitbit

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Post by trjordan »

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

That's crazy. My restlessness graphs don't look much different than yours -- is the sleep apnea what's waking you up after 5-6 hours?

Re: Breakup, as captured by my fitbit

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Post by sago »

Looked like 'got up at noon, haven't been to bed yet' to me.

Surprising lack of difference between sleep and waking if the only change was the breakup. Not doubting it, just interesting.

Re: Breakup, as captured by my fitbit

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Post by ianamartin »

ihsw wrote: post #19
state wrote: post #3

Perhaps if everyone tagged their breakup moments on their fitbits then fitbit could mass-process the preceding few months / weeks to find a common pattern. You show up a few minutes early to the restaurant and your fitbit can just let you know what's about to happen.

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 My gf had been withdrawn and was communicating less and acting awkward in various noticeable ways that I interpreted from experience as an impending breakup, especially since she was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 asked if I wanted to get dinner on Sunday and talk for a little while.

If you had looked at my readings that day, I would have looked like a breaker-upper, I'm sure.

Turns out that she was stressed about work and travel and after we talked about it a little, everything was fine. But damn. I really thought that was over for the better part of three days.

Re: Breakup, as captured by my fitbit

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Post by rconti »

trjordan wrote: post #71
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

That's crazy. My restlessness graphs don't look much different than yours -- is the sleep apnea what's waking you up after 5-6 hours?

Seriously. I sleep like a baby and often show 30+ times restless.

Re: Breakup, as captured by my fitbit

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Post by gherkin0 »

overcast wrote: post #46
JadeNB wrote: post #40

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Communication between the couple plummets, and is usually one sided, heavily weighted towards the side doing the breakup. I agree with the first part, but am not so sure about the second. If the breaker-upper doesn't want to break up, then I can believe that he or she will communicate more; but, if the breaker-upper does want to break up, then I can believe that he or she might withdraw and communicate less. (I'm n…

The breaker-upper generally wants to break up right? I mean, that's why they are the breaker-upper.

> The breaker-upper generally wants to break up right? I mean, that's why they are the breaker-upper.

People can have mixed feelings about a relationship/SO, especially as the relationship ends.

Re: Breakup, as captured by my fitbit

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Post by lectrick »

trjordan wrote: post #71
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

That's crazy. My restlessness graphs don't look much different than yours -- is the sleep apnea what's waking you up after 5-6 hours?

I'm... not sure. Sometimes I have trouble falling asleep (insomnia), although SOME of that can probably be attributed to late-night device usage (I use Flux, but the iPhone won't have "time-based screen yellowing" until the next iOS release.) My girlfriend, who sleeps in the same bed as me, also gets up around 6, and sometimes that wakes me (not most of the time, fortunately).

Re: Breakup, as captured by my fitbit

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Post by flashman »

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…

> Getting a puppy

Yep looks like my 'parenting two kids under 3' sleeping hours.

> It gives me data to double-check my sense of "Something seems off, am I always this stressed?"

My resting heart rate went up 15% when I had a cold last year - starting two days before I felt any symptoms: http://i.imgur.com/X7vEFsC.png

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