Apple Watch/Heartwatch/Autosleep/Vitals has led to wanted medication changes

[Thomas Davie]

Am a Haemodialysis patient (16 months, prior to this was Peritoneal at home dialysis for 5.5 years). HD has caused abberations in my sleep patterns such as increased sleep onset time and very frequent nighttime wakings. My goal was to get an increase in the allowed dosage of Ezopiclone (Lunesta?).

Brought printouts of the apps that I’ve referenced in the title for this post to dialysis and showed the daily attending physician and also brought the same printouts to grand rounds (once every 4 weeks when Nephrologist, Pharmacist, Nurse, Social Worker and Dietitian spend more time with patients and are able to review 4 weeks worth of dialysis & blood work).

Having access to my sleep records & at home pulse and O2 data made it a no brainer and medication change approved (today).

Crappy sleep isn’t a killer b/c am on permanent disability and I can/do sleep in the afternoon when I need it, but,lst night for example I was up at 1, 3 and 5 am. Eating during the awake periods.

Just wish I would have bought an AW a few years ago. When blood pressure is integrated and satisfactorily I’m gonna hop on that version of the watch. Not diabetic, but would also purchase a version of AW that can accurately measure blood glucose and any other useful health metrics.

And considering my recent fall, will make damn sure that I have Applecare - which I am thankful for having added.

Tom

 

[Momof2.1107]

Am a Haemodialysis patient (16 months, prior to this was Peritoneal at home dialysis for 5.5 years). HD has caused abberations in my sleep patterns such as increased sleep onset time and very frequent nighttime wakings. My goal was to get an increase in the allowed dosage of Ezopiclone (Lunesta?).

Brought printouts of the apps that I’ve referenced in the title for this post to dialysis and showed the daily attending physician and also brought the same printouts to grand rounds (once every 4 weeks when Nephrologist, Pharmacist, Nurse, Social Worker and Dietitian spend more time with patients and are able to review 4 weeks worth of dialysis & blood work).

Having access to my sleep records & at home pulse and O2 data made it a no brainer and medication change approved (today).

Crappy sleep isn’t a killer b/c am on permanent disability and I can/do sleep in the afternoon when I need it, but,lst night for example I was up at 1, 3 and 5 am. Eating during the awake periods.

Just wish I would have bought an AW a few years ago. When blood pressure is integrated and satisfactorily I’m gonna hop on that version of the watch. Not diabetic, but would also purchase a version of AW that can accurately measure blood glucose and any other useful health metrics.

And considering my recent fall, will make damn sure that I have Applecare - which I am thankful for having added.

Tom

Tom

I love tracking all of the health metrics with my Apple watch and tracking everything with my iPhone. I wear a Wellue O2 ring at night along with my CPAP machine to track my oxygen at night, because I am still waking up with daytime sleepiness. I am waiting for Stelo to release their over the counter CGM, to track my glucose levels due to diabetes runs in my family and I want to see how different foods affects my glucose levels. I have also been following this company’s blood pressure monitor to track my blood pressure. https://aktiia.com/uk/blood-pressure-monitor.

 

[HDFan]

When blood pressure is integrated and satisfactorily I’m gonna hop on that version of the watch.

Speculation is that you won't get number readings but just general ones such as it is trending high.

 

[sifpilsen]

Speculation is that you won't get number readings but just general ones such as it is trending high.

Trending numbers are quite accurate for me, giving me data when an illness likely manifested from infection and such. I welcome all new data points for health, even if given with 24 hours delay.

 

[Momof2.1107]

Trending numbers are quite accurate for me, giving me data when an illness likely manifested from infection and such. I welcome all new data points for health, even if given with 24 hours delay.

One thing that I loved about my Apple Watch, was that it alerted me to my high temperature 24 hours before I came down with the flu, and the day I suffered an PE. My heart rate was low, and I lost consciousness due to the blood clots. I fell and my fall detection kicked in calling 911, which saved my life. I wear my watch 24/7, except when showering and an hour when charging.

 

[Thomas Davie]

This is using the application Heartwatch. Top graph line is nighttime/sleep O2 levels, while bottom graph line is nighttime/sleep respiration rate. You can see the clear coorelation between decreased O2 levels and increased respiration rate. This was at the height of my LYME infection when I had a bad fall taking garbage.recycle out at 4:30am-ish.

I like this app because it allows me to compare multiple trend lines superimposed over each other.

There are 5, perhaps 6 time slices that I’ve written down the individual data points for and I’m drawing all kinds of coorelation curves for. I’m betting that I will get a nice -ve linear regression line with a high R squared coefficient.

Tom