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I didn't reverse-engineer the protocol for my blood pressure monitor in 24 hours

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Re: I didn't reverse-engineer the protocol for my blood pressure monitor in 24 hours

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Post by Aurornis »

ErroneousBosh wrote: post #16
ck2 wrote: post #13

I have three blood pressure cuffs They all give me different numbers, by a lot sometimes btw you think they ever clean those devices? you think healthy people go to pharmacies? I won't even touch the signature pen, imagine what's on that

I had my blood pressure tested several times over the course of the month and each time it was high, weirdly high, like 160/100. If I drove in, weirdly high. If I cycled in, weirdly high. If I got another reading after sitting quietly in the waiting room reading my book for half an hour, weirdly high. They wanted me to start on all sorts of medications immediately. The second-last time, they got a reading of 220/130,…

> That's beyond "hypertension crisis" and well into "incompatible with life" levels. That's the kind of pressure I see in hydraulic servo feedback channels, not living things.

Blood pressures at this level can be observed from time to time. It’s not an instant death level.

Getting multiple readings is a good idea, but I would caution against picking the reading you like the most as the one which you believe to be correct.

You should also know that there are some conditions where high blood pressure can be transient. Some of these are very serious (tumors which secrete hormones which spike blood pressure). Having occasional scary high readings mixed in with occasional normal readings is actually typical with some of these conditions.

If I had any measurements show up that high I would invest in a cheap at home blood pressure device. They can be as cheap as $20. Then I’d collect a lot of measurements over several days.

Re: I didn't reverse-engineer the protocol for my blood pressure monitor in 24 hours

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Post by supportengineer »

ianschmitz wrote: post #34
supportengineer wrote: post #33

Not a single comment in here about Bottles - what exactly is it?

https://usebottles.com

I read this entire page, it spelled out the benefits, but didn't tell me what it actually IS or DOES.

For example, "Bottles is a wrapper around WINE"

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Post by kakacik »

pavel_lishin wrote: post #3
cestith wrote: post #2

Regarding white coat hypertension, the shot isn’t always necessary. Some people’s blood pressure just goes up from the stress of the clinical setting.

I have an intense phobia of dentists; if I were wearing a constant monitor, I bet you could tell when I was at the dentist just by watching the blood pressure and heart rate spikes. (You'd have to find some way of differentiating them from me being in a car accident, or being attacked by a werewolf.)

I have a mild fear of needles. Whenever my wife does acupuncture on me, I am quite uneasy in the beginning, looking away but still I end up covered in a bit of sweat till she finishes putting needles on all the points (and sometimes they are properly weird places I wouldn't imagine sticking tiny needle into... doesn't help). Don't monitor the heart rate/pressure but it must jump up significantly

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Post by aniviacat »

mijoharas wrote: post #43
kuylar wrote: post #40

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Bottles is essentially a frontend for Wine, it lets you put every single app to its own WINEPREFIX, so that each one can have their own settings, C: drive, etc. If you've heard of Lutris, Bottles is essentially the same thing, but aimed at general software instead of only focusing on games

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45894878

I use Bottles regularly and really like it.

There's nothing groundbreaking about it, but it's a straightforward way to run apps with Wine with an intuitive and pretty interface.

(They're currently working on a 2.0 release, though that's probably gonna take a while.)

Re: I didn't reverse-engineer the protocol for my blood pressure monitor in 24 hours

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Post by nrhrjrjrjtntbt »

kuylar wrote: post #40
supportengineer wrote: post #33

Not a single comment in here about Bottles - what exactly is it?

Bottles is essentially a frontend for Wine, it lets you put every single app to its own WINEPREFIX, so that each one can have their own settings, C: drive, etc. If you've heard of Lutris, Bottles is essentially the same thing, but aimed at general software instead of only focusing on games

Nice, using home-brew style incomprehensible nomenclature

Re: I didn't reverse-engineer the protocol for my blood pressure monitor in 24 hours

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Post by dns_snek »

dhosek wrote: post #31
cestith wrote: post #2

Regarding white coat hypertension, the shot isn’t always necessary. Some people’s blood pressure just goes up from the stress of the clinical setting.

I got it when an eye clinic wanted to do my blood pressure (which is kind of weird in itself), which they did shortly after the glaucoma test which never works for me because I have an overdeveloped blink reflex and it turned up high. It really amazes me how people whose job it is to take blood pressure don’t recognize the stress situations that people are in might result in abnormal readings.

> It really amazes me how people whose job it is to take blood pressure don’t recognize the stress situations that people are in might result in abnormal readings.

I've had a doctor measure my heart rate right after remarking on my "elevated HR during intake" (I walked there and I was running late), after telling me some slightly distressing news on what was already a very stressful day, knowing about my white coat anxiety, and right around the time of peak effects of stimulant medication which they also know about. Wouldn't you believe it, my heart rate was high (110)!

Then I got a front seat to watch their confirmation bias kick in, and have them make some really faulty assumptions based on this bad information. They were quite sure that I had developed a certain medical condition but the lab tests quickly proved them completely wrong.

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Post by haunter »

supportengineer wrote: post #72
ianschmitz wrote: post #34

Earlier quoted context omitted.

https://usebottles.com

I read this entire page, it spelled out the benefits, but didn't tell me what it actually IS or DOES. For example, "Bottles is a wrapper around WINE"

>but didn't tell me what it actually IS or DOES

It tells you right at the start:

"Easily run Windows software on Linux with Bottles!"

That's all you need to know. If Linux wants to be more mainstream it needs to drop the "Bottles is a wrapper around WINE". What's a wrapper? What's WINE? It doesn't matter. All the user need to know that you can easily run Windows software on Linux with Bottles

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Post by urbandw311er »

p1dda wrote: post #73
jesuswasjew wrote: post #67

What's flu vaccine?

[flagged]

There is a lot of hard scientific evidence that you’re completely wrong about that. And the sad thing is that by spreading this sort of ignorant nonsense you endanger people’s lives.
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