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Being able to check blood pressure via my phone sounds terrible for hypochondriacs like me.
by candiddevmike 3y ago
Being able to check blood pressure via my phone sounds terrible for hypochondriacs like me.
- netcraft 3y agoI think I feel the same way. I would absolutely love to be able to look at a graph of my blood pressure over time, but it would probably be terrible if I could see it realtime on my wrist.
- johngossman 3y agoI'd like a daily average, which is pretty much what my doctor asks me for and I only have a couple of data points every day (at most).
- ghaff 3y agoWhich is pretty easy to do, at least at home. I got a newer relatively auto BP measurement device that's not even network-enabled. And it still takes just about a minute for the days I use it. Yes, it's something you need to remember but there are a bunch of little daily things you remember--often because you want to.
- swatcoder 3y agoFor me, the constant stream of other health data shattered my willful ignorance. For as much as I would worry, the data kept insisting I was stubbornly healthy and that when I did feel poorly, it was almost always attributable to something specific I’d done recently. It made it very hard to maintain the anxieties I’d spent decades culturing, so I eventually just gave in and accepted that I was pretty darn fine and had some specific bad habits that had been surreptitiously fueling the anxieties. So while more data might make things worse for you, that experience is not universal.
- Johnny555 3y agoSo while more data might make things worse for you, that experience is not universal. I'm surprised that the type of health data captured passively from a watch is enough to assuage the fears of any true hypochondriac. While they do capture some basic health metrics, it seems that there are many illnesses/disorders that would never be detected by the watch until they become an acute illness.