badabec
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I have a Samsung watch but the casing and the strap gave me a rash. I did swap the strap but the casing makes it unusable for me. What extra stuff does the ring do? I'd be especially interested in heart rate/arrythmia data and how you feel it's an improvement over the Samsung watches. Thanks.
I have a Samsung watch but the casing and the strap gave me a rash. I did swap the strap but the casing makes it unusable for me. What extra stuff does the ring do? I'd be especially interested in heart rate/arrythmia data and how you feel it's an improvement over the Samsung watches. Thanks.
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I had that off the stainless steel on the back of the watch, I just stuck some insulating tape to keep it off my skin, worked great.
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It does a load more stuff - especially heart and O2 that the smart watch doesnt. I will try to get some screen shots of the interface (dashboard) of the app.
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Rebooted my phone and everything is fine again. I always get tense when there is an update. I did once brick a phone.
badabec
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If the watch/ring indicates something is wrong, how much trust can you place in the device and can you do anything about it anyway?
A friend died from a hypoglycemic coma after her state of the art monitoring system went on the fritz. She had placed too much trust in the electronics rather than her own experience.
A friend died from a hypoglycemic coma after her state of the art monitoring system went on the fritz. She had placed too much trust in the electronics rather than her own experience.
No just "forgot" to share it, bit that hit my leg left a nice saucer plate sized bruise even after gashing and bending ~6mm steel/aluminium
Think there might have been a small crack I didn't notice it was almost perfectly balanced but thankfully it failed just above engine idle so didn't have anymore kinetic energy. One piece hit the clutch assembly before my knee then flew 20m out the shed the other bit flew 10m into the side of a bbq and cabinet in the shed but stopped 2m short of a limited edition ford RS lol.
Side of knee about a week later felt like someone swung a sledge hammer into it at the time though surprisingly didn't hurt, either way fu**ed around and found out so not doing that again despite it working for others hence new solid 12mm disc and reinforcing the sides to contain any future issues which at most might be a blade coming off but that's less than a 1/10th the weight of the exploded disc.
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Last week I noticed a couple of scaffolding poles (I think) on the scrap pile, the longer one still had a delivery label on it, the shorter one was yellow for some reason. I rescued the yellow one, for a couple of reasons. First, my normal jack handle that I use on the bench mounted shear has had to be sidelined because I put the project car on the rotisserie a little too close to the bench. I've been using a 9" piece of square box section, but it's hard going on thicker stuff. I didn't want to shorten the jack handle because when the car's out of the way it's a good fit, so I cut a length off this scaffolding pole that's short enough to clear the car. While I was at it I cut another short section to use as a pusher to remove some bushes on the TT - I was thinking I'd need to slit it and close it in a bit, but it's just about exactly the correct diameter by coincidence.
I was strong, I didn't get the other piece "just in case". I have been out this afternoon and got a clamping mitre box and a 25kg bag of mortar, though.
I was strong, I didn't get the other piece "just in case". I have been out this afternoon and got a clamping mitre box and a 25kg bag of mortar, though.
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Yes I can do something about it.
Never ever ever listen to any tech if you "know" something is wrong. We all should know our own bodies by now.
Last year I got a cgm - continuous glucose monitor. Its a sensor that goes on your arm and continuously monitors your glucose level and sends it via Bluetooth to a hand held monitor or an app on your smartphone.
To say it has changed my life us an understatement, in a good way.
Before I was relying on doing a finger prick test and with the best will in the world you can only test so many times in a day. Plus you need clean hands to get an accurate reading - not convenient when you are in the middle of rebuilding a gearbox.
i am insulin dependent and before the cgm I erred on the side off caution by not taking enough insulin and keeping my blood readings higher than ideal because I was afraid of getting a hypo.
This was unhealthy and my average sugars were creeping up. Now with the cgm I am able to take a more suitable dose of insulin and keep my sugars in the ideal range. I know the cgm will alert me if I go too low but that rarely happens.
The cgm has also helped me know my own sugar levels. I can tell now when I'm going to low long before the cgm tells me.
Sometimes when I get engrossed in something in the workshop I forget to eat. I will get the feeling I'm going low and I can do a quick check with the cgm without having to go wash my hands and do a finger prick test.
It sounds like your friend was not listening to her body, though there are folk who can have a hypo without feeling any different and don't get any warning.
Gotta keep things interesting once in a while or life gets boring, definitely preferred it to the nail gun cartridge popping beside my head last year making me completely deaf in one ear for half a dayStupid boy.
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I think I've previously welcomed you to the Type 1 Diabetes Club... yeah, the CGM is a 'game changer' - and I don't like that cliché but it is so appropriate!
Which CGM are you on, out of curiosity? I'm on the Dexcom G6... ever considered taking the next step and going on a pump?
(Did you buy an old pedestal grinder off me several years ago..? Maybe I'm thinking of someone else!)
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Quite a few people who used pork or bovine insulin found the change to the new insulins problematic. They found they didn't get the warning signs.
With the lancets, ever wondered why there are bumps around the point hole?
If you press hard before firing the lancets, the bumps swamp the nerve endings, so you don't feel the lancet going in. In theory.
We're you diabetic in the days of glass syringes and Clinitest tablets?
Glass syringes were calibrated for 20 units per ml. Clinitest were a reagent tablet for urine, giving a rough indication of blood sugar three hours ago.
With the lancets, ever wondered why there are bumps around the point hole?
If you press hard before firing the lancets, the bumps swamp the nerve endings, so you don't feel the lancet going in. In theory.
We're you diabetic in the days of glass syringes and Clinitest tablets?
Glass syringes were calibrated for 20 units per ml. Clinitest were a reagent tablet for urine, giving a rough indication of blood sugar three hours ago.
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It'll do more than just sting them , old chap .....
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I have been completely deaf in one ear all my lifeGotta keep things interesting once in a while or life gets boring, definitely preferred it to the nail gun cartridge popping beside my head last year making me completely deaf in one ear for half a day
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I’d bought some of those EZARC Obsidian blades for the multitool. I keep seeing them advertised of Facebook and YouTube tests so I thought I’d see if they lived up to the hype. They took a while to arrive from China which was a little disappointing as they were too late for the job I had in mind.
Yesterday I was able to test them cutting through the nails from under the corrugated garage roof and they cut very well with no signs of wear on the teeth. If they last as long as I think they will then it will be a while before I need to buy more.
Yesterday I was able to test them cutting through the nails from under the corrugated garage roof and they cut very well with no signs of wear on the teeth. If they last as long as I think they will then it will be a while before I need to buy more.
