Well, I guess Error 500 won't be fixed for awhile . . .

Post #445,235 by Andrew Grygus 1/5/25 1:09:23 AM 1/5/25 1:09:23 AM Reply	Well, I guess Error 500 won't be fixed for awhile . . . . . so I refined my post an put it up on my Web site. If anyone is interested, it's at: Computers & Heart Issues.
Post #445,238 by Another Scott 1/5/25 6:39:55 PM 1/5/25 6:39:55 PM Reply	Pulse width modulation? https://tftcentral.co.uk/articles/pulse_width_modulation Our eyes, and hence the rest of our bodies, are sensitive to things that our thinking brain doesn't really directly notice. Some measurements of various devices from NotebookCheck.net - https://www.notebookcheck.net/PWM-Ranking-Notebooks-Smartphones-and-Tablets-with-PWM.163979.0.html Glad you got it figured out! Hang in there! Best wishes, Scott.
Post #445,239 by drook 1/5/25 8:28:10 PM 1/5/25 8:28:10 PM Reply	How can someone doing cardiology research NOT be interested in weird cardio effects? If nothing else, wouldn't you like to at least track a possible confounder? -- Drew
Post #445,244 by Andrew Grygus 1/6/25 2:12:38 AM 1/6/25 2:12:38 AM Reply	I haven't a clue. I have told him other things that might be relevant to the study, but he wasn't really interested then either. Pretty much all of the really strange stuff going on has been since the start of the study. Perhaps he's not supposed to track this stuff, but leave it up to the people analyzing all those tests and blood samples, but the things I've told him wouldn't show up on those things. Apparently the study people demand a check by a cardiologist, because every time I'm in there and about ready to leave, he comes in, pokes me with his stethoscope in three places, no more than 3 seconds each, say's "sounds good", and leaves.
Post #445,240 by a6l6e6x 1/5/25 9:18:44 PM 1/5/25 9:18:44 PM Reply	My heart rate pattern sure changed to me after the Pace Maker operation. I had the operation in November and it's set up to act to keep the heart beat over 60 per minute. The pace maker is briefly contacted with a monitor unit around 3 AM every night. I think it uses a cell phone signal to report. The measurement gets the whole day's heart pattern in a short time. An interesting fact is that 64% of the time the pace maker is signaling the heart to beat 60 per minute. It used to be that after walking 0.2 miles I needed to stop and rest a minute or two to continue the walk. I think is was a question of energy in the blood flow. Now I walk 0.8 miles with no need for a break. The Sciatica I have now is a walking problem. The serious problem of the heart beet was the effect on the brain. It was over 2 years before the pace maker operation and my brain is badly damaged. Alex "There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that "my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge." -- Isaac Asimov
Post #445,243 by Andrew Grygus 1/6/25 2:00:50 AM 1/6/25 2:00:50 AM Reply	Well, at least it wasn't worms. Worms seem to cause strange conspiracy theories. A friend of mine just got one installed, but no brain damage noted. He found his heart was dropping a lot of beats, up to 4 in a row, and elected for the device right away. They wanted to install a defibullator in me, but I declined because I wan't experiencing afib at all. Now that I'm about normal Dr. Tashakkor no longer bugs me about that - and since my blood pressure was running low (not as low as it would get in the last few months) he stopped bugging me about salt.

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