Do you monitor your own health on a daily basis Sup Forums ? Don't tell me you trust the """modern"" medical world...

Do you monitor your own health on a daily basis Sup Forums ? Don't tell me you trust the """modern"" medical world, right ?

Pic related is my current gear. Still growing.

What exactly do you have there my dude?

He's diabetic. Those are blood glucose monitors.

Monitor and armband for blood pressure to check how my hearth is acting.
Ear thermometer to check my temperature.
Two glucose meter to check my levels even if i'm not diabetic.

Oh and obviously not shown are various tools to check my weight and muscle mass.

I monitor my temperature rectally every day.

>modern medicine is bad
>has modern medicinal tools

Got me to post

Let me rephrase that, the "modern" medical world shouldn't be trusted. The way your case is treated, the way you're monitored, and more importantly the way chronic diseases are diagnosed and treated shouldn't be trusted. At all.

Also note that i didn't used the word "bad". You just can't put your trust on it. Seen far too much cancer cases gone undiagnosed. On average it takes over two years to diagnose a fucking case of multiple sclerosis for fucks sake.

Will you be fingering your own asshole to screen for prostate cancer too?

Well if i could i would. As i said earlier the more you can analyze yourself without resorting to someone else the better.

Would you tell me about more about what you're looking out for when reading your measurements? Are you just looking out for something that seems abnormal or do you keep a list of set readings that mean something is up?

I already check my heart rate, and I also listen to my heart sometimes. I may soon start checking my blood pressure. I was thinking about buying a glucose reader, but it seems like a waste of money for how little I would use it.

>Would you tell me about more about what you're looking out for when reading your measurements?

I keep a journal of my values on a daily basis (so i don't necessarily look for an abnormality, but the goal is to be able to compare normal values to weird ones when they happen).

>I may soon start checking my blood pressure.

If you can : do it. Omron sells amazing monitors that are often used in hospitals. Avoid the compact / small sized ones / wrist ones, they're not really precise.

>I was thinking about buying a glucose reader, but it seems like a waste of money for how little I would use it.

They're not expensive on their own, the accessories (mandatory) are. Like the small lancets or bands to read your blood. So yeah if you don't have weird symptoms that could be attributed to diabete don't bother.

I hope you realize that in order to be treated for any illness your physician will have to do the regular screening and exploration that you are trying to avoid here, regardless of whether you've already done it or not... You cannot simply come in telling them that you want to remove a tumor that you palpated.

Grandma pls. What are you doing on Sup Forums

Of course.

Keep in mind i'm not trying to avoid anything. I'm trying to speed up the process by spotting myself potential abnormalities WITHIN MY REACH.

You can't begin to imagine how the values of blood pressure, blood sugar, temperature, weight and stools inspection (just checking how your shit looks in the bowl with your eyes, not going full ballistic obviously) and more importantly keeping a journal can tell, and most importantly help preventing, awful or chronic diseases.

In fact if people applied my concept (which is quite dedicated, i give you that) we would halve the costs related to health and healthcare.

I haven't decided what I'm going to do, but I have seen the Omron brand around. I'll keep it in mind, thanks. Last time I checked my blood measure with the machines they have at the pharmacies here, my blood pressure was at prehypertension level, which is a bit odd because my resting heart-rate is usually in the the low 50s, so the heart is efficient but the pressure is high. Anyway there's apparently a whole host of things that can through off the measurements and having my own way to monitor blood pressure should help keep constant results if there is a problem.

What other pieces of equipment are you thinking about adding to your collection?

I'm really ignorant. I have no idea if it's common for vital signs to be off if you have something like cancer. Can monitoring really catch most diseases and health related problems?

That's a good start. I do a lot for the family; trying to keep the bills low.

Get one of these opthalmologist kits. Saved us a lot of money.

>checking yourself is bad and a telltale sign of being old

I might be older than the average teenager posting on Sup Forums nowadays, but if anything resorting to yourself (at least within your reach and as far as you can) seems pretty damn redpilled to me.

Plus, don't ever ever take a good health for granted. Never ever.

Reporting in. 24yo 6"23 187lbs (1m90 85k) feeling gud

And a minor surgery kit. Buy extra sutures.

You got an anal probe too son?

I don't give a fuck.
Die at 70 or die at 90 is the same to me.

I check myself every year, mostly because I'm insulin resistant, so I gotta keep it down or you know what's next.

Damn nice gear user.

>Anyway there's apparently a whole host of things that can through off the measurements and having my own way to monitor blood pressure should help keep constant results if there is a problem.

Indeed. Blood pressure should be ideally took at the same period (read : time), every single day while (calmly) sitting or laying. Wait five minutes before you take your measurements. And wait another five minutes before taking another measurements. Obviously don't take your measurements after a physical effort or after eating. Something ideal would be after you wake up, somewhere in the afternoon and somewhere in the evening, before you got to sleep for exemple. Keep your schedule strict for good and relatable values.

Blood pressure took outside your home (read in a pharmacy or at the doc) will always be higher than a value at home so don't worry.

>I'm really ignorant. I have no idea if it's common for vital signs to be off if you have something like cancer.

Depends the type of cancer, really.

>Can monitoring really catch most diseases and health related problems?

It does certainly help. With good hearth monitoring you can pretty much avoid a lot of deadly shit and warn your doctor faster.

>Omron

That's a quality device you have their friend.

>doesn't trust modern medicine
>buys modern medical equipment
kys you retarded faggot

They're amazing my japanese friend. Really good tools. I'm always on the fence on components coming from Asia but Omron is some top tier shit.

Read the thread Cletus.

Add a small handheld metal detector to your collection.
That way you can check for shrapnel and bullet fragments.

Are my results too low ?

Japan is not Asia like Switzerland is not Europe.

you aren't monitoring your blood sugar unless you have diabetes. To do that, even weekly, without pancreatic failure of some kind is as redundant as regularly counting the hairs on your arms to make sure there's no deviation indicating male pattern baldness.

This is really autistic as an OP. What were you trying to convey? Nobody bullies diabetics, but I kind of want to now.

>not even a cursory FitBit™ post or running app on phone as /fit/ might do to troll

Unless you are doing a whole lab procedure in checking your electrolyte levels (more specific, your potassium) and obtaining ABG results, you're really doing nothing for yourself man
Even if you were to find some abnormalities with the readings you are getting from your machines, there's nothing really you can do about it from home

I'm perfectly aware of that.

Also ayylmao implants and razor blades in halloween candy.

>ayylmao implants
typically non-magnetic and if not immediately sub-cutaneous they've only show up on X-rays

...

You appear to suffer from hypochondriasis friend

>no ding dongs

I don't maintain my health, i haven't been sick in 15 years, i have given myself stiches, packed deep ( largest was about nickel wide, over 2 inches deep) wounds with salt which let me avoid the hospital

All my wounds heal nicely with minimal scar tissue, i heal like a fucking lizard

Most i was we've worried about a wound was a big gash on my foot, i did go to a doctor after it didn't heal for 3 months, he was amazed it wasn't infected, he explained what was keeping my wound from healing (granular tissue has protruded 3/4 of an inch beyond my dermis) and got me an appointment with a specialist in 1 month, so i packed it with salt, and cut out the tissue as it dehydrated, less than a month later wound was closed.


I realize I'm insane, i actually have great health insurance, i just enjoy home surgery and seeing what it takes to heal a wound

Hypochondria: The Thread

>I don't trust the """modern"" medical world
>I only use their monitoring devices

Bright guy.

>I have autism and diabetes so I keep a journal about what my shits look like and have to carry all this stuff with me all the time and I wanted to make a thread about it on pol

>non-magnetic
Thats not how metal detectors work though

>Tfw also not diabetic by have hypochondria/general anxiety and when I get hungry/tired I start to believe my blood sugar is wack
>everytime I've tested it it's been within normal ranges but still can't shake my delusions

you posted, the collection is complete

which one of those do you stick up your ass?

Wouldn't check his vital signs in a early warning score type way catch some forms of illness long before most people would end up in the hospital?

Shouldn't it, at the very least, catch a heart attack or sepsis coming on?

no

You check your blood sugar? How often?

Sure, just general wellness checklist stuff. I grew up on a farm, I'm used to checking myself and the animals.

Things like, is the saliva too ropey, are the gums a healthy color, temp normal, stools okay, urine okay, heartbeat okay, unusual hairloss occuring, pain in any area, eyes tracking, skin look healthy or cracking, etc, etc.

Knew a dog that every winter it would lose patches of it's coat. Not from frostbite... from the clouds. It was vitamin D deprived. Gave it wheat germ oil in the morning every day, 2 weeks later, problem solved.

It's not a daily checklist, more of a subconcious one that is always running while I am interacting with people/plants/animals.

Always good to know your health.

Monitor all you want, it matters what can be done about it.

I have no health insurance, but could afford diagnostic tests if I wanted. Say I come back with a positive cancer diagnosis. I'm not going to seek treatment. So the only thing a test would do for me is to give me a somewhat less fuzzy time of death.

2 hours after eating to see your glucose high point, first thing in the morning after sleeping to check fasting levels.

>Do you monitor your own health on a daily basis Sup Forums ?
No, when I get sick I expect no help so it's a waste of time to check it.

Ffs not everything is cancer. It is important to know what is normal, what is treatable at home, what will pass with time and rest, and what is serious. Blithely assuming that there is nothing you can do because you're not a doctor is fucking stupid.

Are you seriously going to tell me you have never taken Peptobismal when you had the runs? Never used an ace bandage on a sprain?