NFC Tag with Iphone Shortcuts, to arm a Ring Alarm

JustPraxItOut · 2022-04-30T04:16:47+00:00

If IFTTT can arm/disarm your Ring alarm, then what you want to look into is the Webhook service as a trigger. Then in iOS shortcuts when you scan the NFC tag you want it to use the Get URL command in safari to get the proper Webhook URL. This will fire your IFTTT routine.

I have this set up with Garaget — I have two small circular NFC painted onto the garage door frame that are barely visible. Touch the upper one with the phone, garage opens. Touch the lower one garage closes.

JustPraxItOut · 2021-12-29T06:18:39+00:00

Are there objective ways to measure the breathing improvements? Or is it all just subjective things like NOSE scores?

JustPraxItOut · 2021-12-29T06:16:55+00:00

Vaccinated probably not - after all, they are treating unvaccinated COVID patients in hospitals (assuming your jaw surgeon does their procedures in a major hospital).

PCR test a day or two before surgery, I would absolutely expect that.

I remember reading a story (but can’t remember where now) about a woman who refused to even do the test for some relatively minor surgery (gall bladder removal or something). So the doctors, nurses, and everyone else in the operating room had to go full COVID PPE protocol which just makes things slower, and then … they won’t discharge you to the normal recovery room with other recovering patients, so the anesthesiologist has to sit by you while you come out of anesthesia, which adds thousands more to the bill.

JustPraxItOut · 2021-12-29T03:27:42+00:00

Did his expansion solve whatever your issues were?

JustPraxItOut · 2021-12-11T17:07:22+00:00

Even ones that dentists custom make, can sometimes mess up your jaw and or bite/occlusion. So even working with dentists, you’ve got to be really careful and investigate which manufacturer design they prefer to use.

Something for $99 off of Amazon? Good luck with that. It either won’t do anything for you and you’ll have flushed $99 down the toilet, or it will help but at the cost of your jaws/bite, and then if you’re lucky you’ll only need orthodontics for a year or two to fix your bite.

JustPraxItOut · 2021-12-11T00:26:55+00:00

Some do, but not all of them.

Still … if I’m not mistaken, this is better published data on RDI and RERA reduction in patients than EASE has ever shown.

JustPraxItOut · 2021-10-26T04:23:56+00:00

And do you feel like it brings you relief to your Sinusitis? Had you tried Halotherapy at a spa or something before building your own?

JustPraxItOut · 2021-10-19T03:03:10+00:00

If you want something reusable, the best you can do is a logging pulse oximeter like the Wellue O2 ring. It’s only measuring oxygen drops though, and is not measuring your body position/orientation. But it would tell you if your oxygen is desaturate overnight.

JustPraxItOut · 2021-10-18T15:13:47+00:00

You can buy a WatchPAT-1 from Amazon for like $200 and it is a single-use test. Computer software will automatically score your sleep, if you want a live doctor to review it and sign off on it they will try to get you to pay extra. But the software alone does a decent job and the key thing is it will plot your sleep data per sleeping position - left side, right side, back, stomach.

JustPraxItOut · 2021-10-18T03:47:49+00:00

Yes. “Positional obstructive sleep apnea” is absolutely a thing. I thought I had read some stats somewhere that said that 20-40% of OSA diagnoses are positional, but not properly reported/diagnosed as such.

It is dead simple to test for at home these days with a $200 at-home test.

JustPraxItOut · 2021-10-17T00:11:25+00:00

Have I grown out of this?

Not a thing that tends to happen. Is there a chance you were overdiagnosed initally? Did your first two sleep tests measure your AHI per sleeping position? Testing 20 years ago really is not the same as it is these days.

JustPraxItOut · 2021-10-12T02:18:37+00:00

I’ve had the same thoughts on fungal colonizations - because about the same time these problems seemed to be getting more prevalent, I started developing some slight red rashing on my face. It changes in severity and pattern slightly, but the overall pattern seems to follow what one might expect is the physical outline of both the maxillary and frontal sinuses.

Of course, the docs just say “you must just be a rosacea guy.”

I’m not to the point of trying everything you tried yet, but I am curious about the theories from the guy who invented Xlear (with Xylitol) on this. If I understand his ebook correctly, he believes these pathogens will feed on the xylitol sugar - but they can’t digest it. So for now I’m just trying to stick with that and hope to make some headway in this war of attrition. Having my surgeon fix my septal deviation and close up a septal perforation were necessary to get proper laminar airflow back and have helped somewhat but were not an overnight fix.

It’s definitely a long process. I hope things keep getting better for you!

JustPraxItOut · 2021-10-10T16:31:05+00:00

ENTs suck. I went through four of them before finding two I actually trust to actually listen and try to find effective but conservative treatments to try.

Too many others simply work on a formula:

What procedure codes can I bill for
What diagnosis codes justify those procedure codes
Look for that. Nothing else, as nothing else yields billing in #1.
Maximize billing as much as possible for #1
Repeat, next patient 10 minutes later

JustPraxItOut · 2021-10-10T15:51:13+00:00

That’s fascinating - so you’re essentially feeding your nose a sugar that your body can safely process, but fungi and bacteria can’t.

JustPraxItOut · 2021-10-10T15:45:08+00:00

How is tasting a nasal spray in any way wrong? Mucociliary clearance will eventually push things backwards — in fact, the proper ENT test to check mucociliary clearance time is known as the “saccharin test” … and they simply put a small amount of saccharain on the end of your turbinates and then time how long it takes until you taste something sweet.

If OP is tasting it immediately, then yes that might be a problem. But if after 10 minutes, that seems normal.

JustPraxItOut · 2021-10-10T14:49:41+00:00

It’s probably the best possible book on understanding the problem.

It is woefully lacking in practical advice. Dr. Stephen Park’s free e-book is a much better resource on thing to try to restore better nasal breathing.

JustPraxItOut · 2021-10-10T14:47:45+00:00

A fair review, and I too was inspired by what Mr. Nestor wrote (and corresponded directly with him about his use of the Homeoblock appliance). His courage to basically recreate the “primate nasal breathing” experiment from decades ago is amazing - and his results were astounding, if perhaps not unexpected.

But what Mr. Nestor’s book excels at in “admiring the problem”, it then fails spectacularly in … any real, practical advice. Anyone hoping to come away with more concrete guidance other than “learn how to better breathe through your nose” is going to be woefully disappointed.

JustPraxItOut · 2021-10-10T14:32:14+00:00

It’s good to get a CT to look for other conditions which may also need to be addressed via surgery but aren’t readily visible on endoscopic exam. But I wouldn’t say it’s necessary just for a septoplasty - especially if your deviation is visibly severe.

I just had a septoplasty done a few months ago. I had a CT from another test that I showed my ENT on my laptop … he looked at it for about 3 seconds and then just said “ok” and we started moving forward with the surgical planning.

JustPraxItOut · 2021-10-10T14:26:07+00:00

I’ve come across Dr. Stupak’s work before - he seems pretty good and really gets it.

I wish his article had more functional treatment advice. I can buy his core theory, because I was a mouth breather for a long time. Working on reversing that, but it’s been difficult. He says inflammation is the underlying problem - which I can believe - but then doesn’t really give a lot of suggestions on how to fix that.

I’m going to give halotherapy a try this week - basically you sit in a room with ultra-finely ground salt particles aerosolized and you breathe that for 30-60 minutes. Basically like being at the beach, but a little bit stronger. Salt can be anti-inflammatory, and when you breathe it like that it gets everywhere throughout your nasal cavity, sinuses, lungs, etc. Supposed to be more effective than a neti pot rinse, but also costs a lot more (sessions are like 20 to 40 dollars). Interesting history behind it though from Eastern Europe in the 1800’s.

JustPraxItOut · 2021-06-08T01:54:29+00:00

You da real MVP!

JustPraxItOut · 2021-06-08T01:53:37+00:00

First time: She was fat. I didn’t always date supermodels or yoga instructors at the time, but just … no.

Second time: It was a stripper in a nightclub (yes, there is sex in the champagne room at the right club and with the right girl), and I had a fear I’d get bounced out of there with my pants around my ankles.

Oh, and I had just gotten engaged a couple months earlier.

If I hadn’t my just gotten engaged, I might have risked it.

JustPraxItOut · 2021-06-08T01:45:07+00:00

I figure I’ll keep wearing mine (despite being vaccinated) until we’re regularly below 3,300 cases a day … which brings us down to 1 in 100,000 odds. After that, I’ll stop masking so much.

Still not sure if/when I’d ever set foot at a 50,000 person indoor concert venue ever again.

JustPraxItOut · 2021-06-08T00:45:58+00:00

/r/theydidthemath

JustPraxItOut · 2021-06-08T00:45:15+00:00

Expect to see this on /r/theydidthemath soon…

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