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Re: Breakup, as captured by my fitbit

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Post by IanCal »

CWuestefeld wrote: post #86
myth_buster wrote: post #32

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Mine (fitbit one) seems pretty good on the stairs. It was 1 floor out over 125 going up and down the stairs in a hotel.

Re: Breakup, as captured by my fitbit

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Post by lumpypua »

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.

Any particular suggestions? I need to go shopping soon.

Re: Breakup, as captured by my fitbit

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Post by jacquesm »

RyJones wrote: post #67
myth_buster wrote: post #54

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I noticed the condition of the road had a significant affect on the readings. I think we could use supervised learning to perhaps determine different activities.

my truck runs on five of the six cylinders available to it, and shakes like it does. Holding the steering wheel with my left hand means I hit step goals like crazy.

Be careful about continuing to drive it like that you may end up wrecking the catalytic converter.

Re: Breakup, as captured by my fitbit

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Post by zyxley »

Jtsummers wrote: post #17
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…

It'd almost certainly require consent or a warrant to get the data (in the US). But it would have a problem that polygraphs (presumably) attempt to handle. You have no baseline questions and timeline. A stressed individual (being interviewed by the police would be stressful) will look different from an unstressed individual. Without the control questions at the start, you have no basis to draw conclusions from.

> It'd almost certainly require consent or a warrant to get the data (in the US).

The problem is that, as many court rulings have affirmed, in the US it's not "your" data anymore when it gets to the company's servers.

At that point, most companies will hand over everything to a politely-worded request, with only a few actually holding out to the point of a warrant.

Re: Breakup, as captured by my fitbit

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Post by bobbles »

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.

It captures heart rate at a much lower rate unless you indicate you're working out, so I guess if you knew it was getting to breakup stage of the conversation you could ask them to wait a sec while you start your workout

Re: Breakup, as captured by my fitbit

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Post by JshWright »

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.

What is "exhale relief"? A reduced PEEP?

Re: Breakup, as captured by my fitbit

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Post by DenisM »

lumpypua wrote: post #92
DenisM wrote: post #87

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Any particular suggestions? I need to go shopping soon.

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 (compared to S8); and it has exhale relief (it drops the pressure when you start exhaling). It's easier to exhale, thus reducing the overall pressure.

An additional way to reduce the pressure is a neck pillow. I use one with a silly name of Dr Dakota. Aside from keeping your chin from falling down, it keeps your neck straight, and so it opens up the airways. It's a big deal if you have bad posture, like I do. This was a dramatic improvement for me.

Further, reducing the pressure will reduce leaks, and thus reduce pressure further, as the machine won't need to compensate as much. A virtuous cycle, if there ever was one.

And lastly, reducing the pressure allowed me to use a nasal pillow mask, which is very comfy, easy to maintain, and has the lowest leaks of all designs I have tried. I can't use it at high pressure due to mouth leaks, but I can handle it at the low pressure, and due to mostly zero leaks now ... the pressure goes down even more.

Combining all of these, I brought my leaks to zero (like, 90%th percentile), and AHI to less than one, like 0.6 is in there most of the time. That's only one event per the 90-minute sleep cycle.

Good luck!

Re: Breakup, as captured by my fitbit

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Post by DenisM »

JshWright wrote: post #96
DenisM wrote: post #87

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

What is "exhale relief"? A reduced PEEP?

See my long reply to a sibling comment.

Re: Breakup, as captured by my fitbit

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Post by nommm-nommm »

glibgil wrote: post #11
protomyth wrote: post #6

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I'm thinking the receiving end. I would expect a sense of relief in the person doing the breaking and not the lingering effects.

Um, did you see the guy's photo? I'm going to guess no one breaks up with that guy unless he does the old trick of acting like a jerk until the other person wants out.

I dated someone once who was really great, did everything right, perfect on paper. However we broke up because I just didn't feel anything, there was no chemistry and sex was boring and lifeless. Sometimes that happens and its nobody's fault.
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