Thank you for sharing this. Wearables are often marketed as a way to give our bodies a voice, but do you think that they can potentially impair our intuition? I recently gave up my wearables for a month and tracked my sleep with good ol pen and paper, and while I found it tedious by the end, I felt more in tune to the needs of my body. I've certainly had bad sleep scores from my Oura and WHOOP set the tone for my days!
My young adult son has been on PAP therapy since the age of 4 and I have encouraged him to wear his Apple Watch to sleep, if for no other reason than to see basic patterns of his sleep sleep cycle and how many hours he's getting. He doesn't, but I look at it as a tool to look at see the basics on days when he's particulary sleepy.
That’s great. It’s a tool and will continue to improve. I’ve definitely had some anecdotal wins from patients tracking it consistently and noticing major fluctuations with treatment/without. But I’ve had more patients stressing and losing sleep over the data when everything else is going well and just needed a break from it.
For sure! My husband was non-compliant with his CPAP (totally different etiology that our sons) and died at 51 of a widow maker. His autopsy showed that he had multiple problems, including cardiomegaly, and cardiomyopathy. Related? Who knows. But it would’ve been interesting, had he used a tracker, to get clues. But definitely easy to see how one could focus on those data points.
Thank you for sharing this. Wearables are often marketed as a way to give our bodies a voice, but do you think that they can potentially impair our intuition? I recently gave up my wearables for a month and tracked my sleep with good ol pen and paper, and while I found it tedious by the end, I felt more in tune to the needs of my body. I've certainly had bad sleep scores from my Oura and WHOOP set the tone for my days!
My young adult son has been on PAP therapy since the age of 4 and I have encouraged him to wear his Apple Watch to sleep, if for no other reason than to see basic patterns of his sleep sleep cycle and how many hours he's getting. He doesn't, but I look at it as a tool to look at see the basics on days when he's particulary sleepy.
That’s great. It’s a tool and will continue to improve. I’ve definitely had some anecdotal wins from patients tracking it consistently and noticing major fluctuations with treatment/without. But I’ve had more patients stressing and losing sleep over the data when everything else is going well and just needed a break from it.
For sure! My husband was non-compliant with his CPAP (totally different etiology that our sons) and died at 51 of a widow maker. His autopsy showed that he had multiple problems, including cardiomegaly, and cardiomyopathy. Related? Who knows. But it would’ve been interesting, had he used a tracker, to get clues. But definitely easy to see how one could focus on those data points.