Time to measure everything regarding health

Last night I decided to connect all the devices I have for measuring health to my health app. It is a bit overdue, but I just got the lancets for measuring my blood sugar this week and my wife has been a bit protective regarding her blood pressure cuffs. I also connected our Scales again to get weight measurements, since I seem to have gained a lot of weight recently when switching medication.

Connecting my blood sugar test unit directly to my mobile phone was super ease and now that I have lancets I will start doing multiple readings a day, just to get some data going. Since I am new to Diabetes this will be interesting to do over a longer period of time, especially since the different brands of Metformin that I use seem to have different effects. I aim to try to measure blood sugar 3 times a day now, in the morning, after lunch and before bedtime.

Connecting the scale was also not very difficult, but I think it is time to get a new one as we have had this one for almost a decade now. It does not seem to connect to the profiles for some reason, but that is ok for now. I will measure weight every morning for consistency and while the actual weight is less important, it is a good indicator of overall health.

Lastly I will use a blood pressure cuff to measure blood pressure since it is a bit high. Fortunately it is dropping from the measurements I have done so far, so it is going in the right direction so far at least, even if it is a bit high still. Once I get back to the gym I should see better results and I have also reduced salt quite a bit recently.

It will be interesting to gather all of these metrics for a while and see what activities affect what metric over time.

Today’s values are:

• Blood Pressure: 131/87

• Weight: 116,5

• Blood sugar: 9.7

• Heart rate: 73

• Sleep: 6h 53m

• Sleep Quality: 72

Overall feeling: Sluggish and my neck is still blocked.