iOS Today 746 Transcript
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00:00 - Mikah Sargent (Host)
Coming up on iOS Today. Rosemary Orchard and I talk about some ways to help you manage your health and you know symptoms on your iPhone. Stay tuned Podcasts you love From people you trust. This is Twit. Anyways, this is iOS Today, episode 746, with Rosemary Orchard and me, micah Sarchent, recorded Tuesday March 25th 2025 for Thursday April 3rd 2025, managing health and illness. Hello and welcome to iOS Today, the show where we talk all things iOS, ipados, watchos, tvos, homepodos and all the other OSs Apple has on offer. We love to talk about them here on the show because our goal is to help you make the most of your devices. That is our goal here and that is what we aim to do, we being well, yours truly, micah Sargent, one of your hosts.
01:13 - Rosemary Orchard (Host)
And my name is Rosemary Orchard, another one of your hosts who was just looking at my health app, just to make sure that everything's up to date.
01:21 - Mikah Sargent (Host)
Yes. So this episode we want to talk about some different apps, but also features that you can use to kind of keep track of your health. You know, occasionally we get sick, and when we get sick we have symptoms, and sometimes it's a matter of seeing the symptoms and going, oh, I'm getting sick and doing what you can to kind of shorten the illness, or it's just a matter of, well, I'm sick and I want to know how long this is going to keep going on. So, keeping track of things that way as well. Apple, in one of its updates to iOS, added a huge list of symptoms that you could track, both within the app but, I think, more importantly, for third party apps to kind of integrate and help you keep track of. So there are ways to do this and there are ways to do it again with third parties. Some folks will, of course, find it easier to, you know, create an automation or something like that, that where you know, perhaps, when you know that you are dealing with something, you can kind of keep track of those specific illnesses. But let me show you really quick because you'll be, I think, surprised at how full featured or how many different options there are when it comes to symptoms. So within the health app, if you go to the browse tab and you tap on symptoms, you are presented with any symptoms that you have experienced in the kind of top portion of the page. But below are some of the options Abdominal cramps, acne, appetite changes, bladder incontinence, bloating, body and muscle ache, breast pain, chest tightness or pain chills, congestion, constipation, coughing, diarrhea, dry skin. I mean it goes on and on and on and on. Loss of smell, loss of taste very important when it comes to influenza or other similar illnesses runny nose, shortness of breath, sleep changes, sore throat, etc. Etc. Et cetera.
03:23
And you can tap into one of these options and you can read what's listed there for this option. So there's kind of a description of it. But you can easily add data by tapping the add data button in the top right and you can talk about whether it is so. Perhaps you know you're tracking. Hey, this isn't an issue right now, or this is an issue right now, so you can say it's not present currently. You can say it's present, you can say it's mild, it's moderate or severe, and then give a start and end time to keep track of that. Now, again, this is kind of a clunkier way to do it, of course, because it's happening all right within the health app and it's more meant to be this database that collects all this information, but it is there.
04:08
I do think later in the show we'll see some magic from Rosemary that might help whenever it comes to using other means of logging these different things. But I have used it in the past when I was having some heart issues to keep track of things that were going on at the time, and so I was able to kind of say, ok, yeah, right now an ECG. It will ask you are there any symptoms that you are feeling along with this? You know what, basically what led you to wanting to test your your heart rhythm? And if you add symptoms at that point, it will log those for you in the symptoms section of the app. And, as Wadfan says in the chat, hopefully these are not simultaneous phenomena. Yes, indeed, you don't want to have all of the symptoms that are present in this list. I think the goal is to have as few as possible, but that is kind of tracking directly in the health apps symptom tracker.
05:24
But we've linked to the page applecom slash health and I want to encourage people to head to that page if you have iOS devices, because it will show you and kind of remind you about a lot of the stuff that you're able to do when it comes to the health app being able to kind of see the highlights of your current health, your trends, so you're getting an idea of how your resting heart rate may have increased or decreased If you use an Apple Watch and sleep at night with the Apple Watch.
05:59
Being able to be more mindful of how your temperature, your body temperature, might be changing over time, but also being able to be mindful of how you may be experiencing sleep interruptions that could lead to a diagnosis of sleep apnea. All of that stuff is available in the app and can give you again more information there about it. So be sure to check out that page and kind of, I think, get inspired about some of the stuff you can do with just the health app and your iOS, watchos, ipados devices. All right, I think, rosemary, you have an app you want to talk to us about.
06:44 - Rosemary Orchard (Host)
Well, it is an app, but its purpose is not to be an app. The purpose of Peak is actually to provide you with widgets on your iPhone to show you fitness things, which personally I find to be quite helpful, because it's always it's good to know when things like your sleep have been less, you know, settled than usual, or perhaps you can see a track in your body temperature that says, hey, things are going a little bit higher, or just that you've not been as active as normal, and so the whole point of Peak is to allow you to add these widgets to your home screen and also you can just see the data easily in the app as well. So please ignore the fact that it says I've not done workouts in a while. I have. I just forgot to lock them, because that is definitely an issue. And also, I have been meeting my rings, but yeah, I stuck my watch on charge, like yesterday morning, and then didn't put it on until yesterday evening, and that happens to me on a semi-regular basis, which is one of the reasons why I also have a smart ring, which is the Ura, which we won't be talking about today, but they have previously sponsored Twit. But yeah, there's all sorts of widgets that you can add, including things like you know little graphs to show things over a month, your weight, and all sorts, and I really like this. It's made by one indie app developer and he has, you know, created a whole bunch of things that you can do with this. So, for example, if I wanted a sleep one that does require the subscription, but you know, I could get skiing and snowboarding distance as a widget on my home screen.
08:23
Now, that's probably not something that is a metric that's necessarily going to be great for, uh, tracking your symptoms, but your heart rate now, your heart rate tends to go up if you're fighting an infection, for example, because your body's working a bit harder. Um, similarly, blood oxygen might be really useful. Time and daylight could be an exceptionally useful thing to add as a widget to your lock screen or your home screen, because, uh, if you suffer from ceaseless affective disorder and considering the fact that the southern hemisphere is heading towards winter right now, that could be a little bit more of a concern for folks down there, whereas up here in the northern hemisphere, we are hopefully migrating to the time of year where, you know, the the getting a bit more sun can help people with that, but seeing your time in daylight as a widget can definitely help, uh, with managing things like that. So, yeah, I really love peak as a way to add widgets.
09:17
There's a whole bunch of cool things with it, and also, if there is an issue with the app, then I have found the developer to be incredibly responsive. Not that I've personally experienced an issue, but I have spoken to him a few times and he's just absolutely lovely 10 out of 10 percent. So, yeah, peak it's free to download, and then there is an in-app subscription of. I think it's $7.99 a year to unlock everything. Sorry, $19.99 a year, $2.99 for a month to try it out, though. So, yeah, definitely worth it.
09:49 - Mikah Sargent (Host)
There is also a lifetime option, all righty. The next kind of section that I want to talk about is to do with air, because you know, sometimes you're going is it allergies, is it something else, or am I actually sick and a great way to kind of keep track of that is an app that I love to use, mostly on my Apple Watch, but occasionally I'll pop open on my iPhone and that is, and I have my location set to a more general one, so you don't have to blur this or anything like that. Um, so this is an app called my pollen forecast pro. It used to be that the developer had a my pollen forecast that was free, with ads, and then a paid version. Now it's just the paid version uh 499 and it's well worth it because what it does is it shows you, in your area, the current pollen count, by displaying it kind of as a gradient from green to red, and will give you a forecast of what is to be expected as far as well. Let's see it's having trouble loading here. Well, let's see it's having trouble loading here. So typically, what it will show here is a forecast of the different types of pollen that are in the area.
11:11
Now, a pollen count is not just a matter or the sort of rating that is provided is not just a matter of how much pollen there is, but also a matter of looking at the wind, and so if winds are high and pollen is medium, you might find that it ends up being a deeper orange or a red, because of the fact that there's a lot going on with the pollen spreading through the air. Now you can, of course, keep track of this information yourself here and kind of see the current pollen count, but you can also and I think this is big Keep a diary. So what you do with the diary is, on the day that your allergies are particularly bad, you can log that information and then start to look at what different pollen like what are the pollens that are in the air at the time, and maybe get an idea that, oh, I think I might be allergic to oak, because when oak pollen is in the air, my allergies are allerging, they are very bad. And then you can go OK, I know that the pollen count is high today, but I'm not feeling too bad, so I guess you know, maybe I don't need to worry about this and this and this. So that's very helpful as well.
12:39
Now, the forecast page typically shows the specific pollens that are going to be in the air and then also gives you an idea of the pollen count over the coming days. So that's what you will normally see there. I have a feeling, because I have it set to a more general location, that's playing a role in why that's not showing up there, but that's what you will normally see there. I have a feeling, because I have it set to a more general location, that's playing a role in why that's not showing up there, but that's what you would typically see in that page. Now, to go along with that, I also wanted to mention an app that you can get for free and that you can use as a guest, called Plume Labs, and that you can use as a guest, called Plume Labs, and Plume Labs is an app that lets you just track air quality as a whole. So with it, you can get the kind of daily forecast of the air quality around you. You can look at the weather as well. You can see how the air quality is going to change over time. You can also get specific tips based on if you plan on cycling.
13:45
Now's a great time to hop on your bike. For example, if you are going for outdoor activities, a run is still okay, but be a bit careful. Here's an area where it's pretty high and then you know if you're going to be doing some kind of outdoor dining. It can also give you some insight there. The best day of the year so far had an air quality index of seven. The worst peak of the year was 93 in this area. And then you can also, I believe, yes, get an air pollution map to kind of see what things look like. Live in your city or in any city. Now, much of this information here's a better look at it. So the greens and the yellows, much of this information is provided by actual plume devices, depending on where you are. So it's very localized, which is pretty cool and I think makes it even more worthwhile Traveling.
14:52
For example, you know, maybe you want to add London to your forecast and you'll see the air quality index in London right now is 73 and can go up or down from there all the way up to 125.
15:08
So maybe not a great time to head out. Avoid traveling by bike if possible. Your best option is to go for it later instead of doing any outdoor activities and then you can look at the month as well and see what months are particularly bad. It looks like Monday, march 10th, had a really high AQI in London, but anyway, that gives you an idea of what you can keep track of there in the dashboard. I just think it's important to keep in mind that you know there's there's illness caused by little buggies getting inside of you and uh, causing all sorts of of of issues, but then there's also just your air and uh you know the pollen around you can play a factor. So those are some uh two ways that I like to use to keep track of my environment and sort of compare that to what's going on with me to see if it's is it illness or is it allergies. There's some insight there, all righty. The next couple of apps I know I'm very excited to hear about because they're made by a friend of the show.
16:23 - Rosemary Orchard (Host)
Yes, indeed they are, and these apps are a pair. You could say a pair, but they are by David Smith, also known as Underscore, because there are a lot of David Smiths in the world, it turns out, and so he had to differentiate himself on social media somehow, so went with the Underscore. But yes, this is Pedometer++ and Sleep++. So I did already mention earlier that seeing your sleep quality being affected can actually be a good indication of when you are getting ill, or just saying that you're sleeping more than usual actually can also be an indication. But Pedometer++ is the one I'm going to show you for now and that tells me how many steps I've done. So apparently today I've done 257 steps.
17:08
I did mention I have a slight penchant for putting my watch on charge and then getting up and wandering around all day and figuring to put it back on until approximately when I'm about to record a podcast, getting up and wandering around all day and figuring to put it back on until approximately when I'm about to record a podcast. But as you can see, I definitely do have my days where I remember to put my watch on all day and I actually do my step count. Now this can give you badges. So you can see hey, three days in a row, or 180 days of hitting your step count, or you've done 20,000 steps a day. If you hit 50,000 steps a day, if you hit 50 000 steps a day, I really hope that that one's got like extra sparkles on it, because I feel like your thighs would be killing you after that as well.
17:42
I have a lot of steps yeah, um, I'm really annoyed that my personal uh daily best uh for floors was 45, because if I had done five more flights of stairs I would have got another one. Uh, another badge at 50 um, but lifetime I have done over 1.5 million steps, um, at least logged in apple health, which is what this integrates with. So if you have an iphone um or an apple watch um, then you can use pedometer plus plus, because it hooks into the apple health data. Now, obviously, um, if it it's an iPhone and you leave it on a table most of the time instead of keeping it in your pocket, then it's not going to be able to log steps. But if you keep it in your pocket all the time, then it'll be able to log steps. So, lifetime floors I have gone up and down over 1,200 flights of stairs. I feel like that is a lot of flights of stairs. I wonder how like that is a lot of flights of stairs. I wonder how tall that is in buildings. I'm sure Siri might be able to find me a website that can answer that. But yes, either way, I can see what's going on there. I can also see workouts and so on. If you want the workouts, then that is $19.99 a year as a plan that you can unlock, or $1.99 for a month, but Pedometer++ is actually a free app.
18:59
Now. You can also, in settings, change it to kilometers instead of miles if you prefer, and you can adjust your daily step goal as well, so you can have that all the way up at 20,000, or even more, I think, and you can lower it down as well if you need to. Now, if you are in a wheelchair so you're rolling instead, then it will handle that. It can count pushes instead of steps. It can do an automatic distance matching estimation or you can set it to be manual Time zones. You can have rest days, you can export data which is really nice and it also has the option of merging your Apple Watch data with your iPhone. So if, like me, you have an Apple Watch and an iPhone, then, believe it or not, when you walk and you take a step, both of them count and guess what? You took one step, not two. So, as cool as that would be to count it twice, then, yeah, you may actually want to have that data merged.
19:58
So, yeah, I really love Pedometer++. It is a very simple app. I can see how well or not so well I've done over certain stretches. It by default shows you the last week and, yeah, if you want to see more trends and so on over time, then weeks and months are locked behind that paywall. But I can also see my year as well, which is nice. Sleep++ I won't go into detail on because we do have one more thing to talk about here, but it works in a very similar way, but it tracks your sleep data, which is in Apple Health, and anything that puts the information into Apple Health can be used for tracking that data. So, yeah, I personally find David Underscoresmith's applications really useful and helpful and, again, free to download, free to use the majority of features on with an optional in-app subscription to unlock more things, which are very nice to have, but not strictly required all right, and then finally visible.
20:59 - Mikah Sargent (Host)
Tell us about visible yeah.
21:02 - Rosemary Orchard (Host)
So visible is primarily marketed at people who are suffering from um, long-term illnesses and so on. So for people who have a long COVID and are really struggling with things, where some days they are pretty much normal and the next day they are just completely burnt out and have to spend the day in bed recovering, so you actually get a polar armband, which I have here, which you then connect to the visible app which I'm not going to go into detail and show you because it gets quite personal in places, showing you all the things. But the idea is, as you wear this on your arm, there's a subscription to the app as well, which then this tracks everything that you do in a day. It tracks your heart rate and everything, and it gives you something called pace points. And the point behind this is that it can see when you're exerting yourself and say, for example, doing the washing up. Most people are perfectly capable of standing in a sink and doing the washing up. Okay, it takes like maybe 10 minutes, 15 minutes, and they're fine, and for some people, some of the time, that is completely exhausting and will burn them out. And the idea behind this is you can actually look at all this data and you can see hey, okay. So yesterday when I did the washing up, it used one pace point and I had 15 for the day. Today I have eight pace points for the day and that used three of them. So maybe I actually do need to just go lie down and watch a couple of episodes of something on television right now because I am not having a good day and so you can pace yourself appropriately. And I have seen quite a few ads for this all over social media.
22:39
But then I went and did my own research on this as well, and the fact that it's using Polar as the band behind it.
22:46
Polar have a really good record, um for making uh hearts or and other health uh trackers, um, including. They actually make a uh heart monitoring band that you can wear on your chest, uh when you're running, which a lot of people really like, um, including federico vatici, who is a friend of the show. Um, and uh yeah, um. I personally have been trying this and I'm really enjoying it. I don't have long COVID or anything like that to see, but I do have days where my energy massively fluctuates and it's really interesting to see how different things affect me on different days. So I would highly recommend, if you have any kind of long-term illness or invisible illness, where there are a whole bunch of things going on and you have really good days and really bad days, grabbing this or at least looking into it, because, yeah, it is definitely something that can make a world of difference to those people who are really struggling with those invisible illnessesifully put there at the end.
23:50 - Mikah Sargent (Host)
Thank you for mentioning that. Now, if you out there are, you know, right now shouting at your car radio or your YouTube video or wherever you're watching this going. But what about this one? Be sure to email us to let us know the app that you like to use that helps you with managing health and illness. We would love to hear about that again. Ios today at twittv. All right, it is time to move along to our feedback segment. Next For feedback this week, robert has written in. Robert says I have been a tech TV fan since screensavers were on TV and a club member. Thank you, robert.
24:37
Excuse me, I've noticed this on my phone after much frustration and discovered it is also on CarPlay in the Toyota I'm renting. Sometimes the navigation voice will be very quiet, while the music or podcast playing will be a normal volume. If you adjust the volume while Siri is talking to you or reading a message, that will be the volume adjustment for navigation or Siri and it will not affect the music or podcast volume. To access this channel, I will just ask Siri to read my last message and then adjust the volume to a decent level before it finishes, and then I know my navigation messages will be able to be heard. It seems to have two different volume channels that we are able to adjust. Occasionally I will try to turn down the music when I'm getting navigation directions and then I won't hear the next navigation notification because it accidentally got turned down. I noticed this a long time ago on my phone when trying to have messages read to me and the volume was way too low. Sometimes I could still kind of hear it and other times it was non-existent, but I never could find any setting in the settings app to adjust these separate volumes. Finally, in frustration, I just pushed the volume up button when Siri was trying to read the message and then I could hear Siri's voice. It seems like this is a well hidden feature that could be helpful for some to know. It was a frustration for me for many months, robert, and Robert has included a pet tax payment of Robert's cat, buster.
26:07
So we'll take a look at Buster and then we will move along to talking about, yes, this frustrating. So this is a photo of Buster appearing to be perched atop a chair of some sort, perhaps some type of furniture. A beautiful, arguably tabby cat. No, yes, yes, tabby's orange, isn't it? Yeah, orange cat, but there's some very unique kind of striping going on that I don't normally see in a tabby. So I think this is a gorgeous kitty with a very regal expression. So thank you for paying the pet tax there of Buster. So, rosemary, let's talk about this issue that Robert has experienced, because, yes, I too have this annoyance.
26:57
Where I'm trying to turn, it's usually there's a conversation happening in the vehicle and so I go to turn down the volume a little bit, and then it happens to be right when Siri's telling me to turn left or turn right coming up, and then I turn down Siri instead. Luckily, on my InDash unit I actually have two different volume meters one that is labeled as navigation and then one that is labeled as music, and so I can very easily see. And, because it's an aftermarket unit, it is touch, and so I can easily adjust each of them right there on the screen. But some people don't have access to this. Some people also don't know that these are two different options. What do we do?
27:42 - Rosemary Orchard (Host)
Yeah, so it turns out there is more than one volume that you can control. Now you can only control two of them specifically with shortcuts, which is what I'm showing here. So that is the media volume and the ringtone volume. But then the Siri volume is another one which is separate, and in my experience as well, the volume of Siri responses varies between the phone and CarPlay. So just because I've turned it up on the phone, then when I get into the car it may still be very loud or very quiet. That can be a separate, remembered volume, which is a little bit frustrating.
28:18
I do understand why the volume controls are separate, but one thing that I would like to remind folks of if you have one of those in-car dashboard holders for your phone that clamps on the sides, make sure it's not pressing the volume down button, because the number of times I've tried to use one of those and I put my phone in it, I just put a little too high and it's pressing the volume down button, because that one sticks out slightly below.
28:45
So the bottom of the power button is here and then the bottom of the volume down button is just like it. It's a few millimeters below. It's not very far, but it's just far enough that, depending on your case, could quite easily be pressing the volume down button, and then that causes all sorts of havoc if that button is just continually being pressed. So yeah, in shortcuts you can use the set volume action to set your media volume and your ringtone volume, but then the Siri volume can only be set while Siri is talking. So that is just something worth remembering, because, yeah, I don't really know of a better way to set those, because you can't change the Siri volume in settings.
29:21 - Mikah Sargent (Host)
Yeah, weird, weird. But there you go, robert, and thank you for you know, part of that tip of I like the part that kind of made me chuckle a little bit. I hadn't thought about that. As can you read my last message to me, because it forces Siri to be communicating. Then you could boop, boop, boop, boop, boop, boop, turn it up and turn it down from there. That's pretty funny. So there are a couple of ways to make this happen. Although they, you know that's feedback. I think I can hear the music. It's time for Shortcuts Corner. This is Shortcuts Corner, the part of the show where, typically, you write in with your shortcuts requests and Rosemary Orchard provides a response. This week, rosemary was inspired by our topic to help make symptom logging just a little bit easier for you. So, rosemary, tell us a little bit about what you've got under the table for us today. I think of like a cooking show where you're, you know, and you just you pull it out and you're like and here's the final dish.
30:35 - Rosemary Orchard (Host)
Tell us about what you okay so, uh, now I get to finally do my blue peter moment, and here's one I prepared earlier. Uh sorry, blue peter is a children's show where they had, uh, arts and crafts and all sorts of things, and they would inevitably get to the point where it's like and now you need to wait four hours for your papier mache to dry and they'd be like so here's what I made earlier. Um, I pull it out ready for the next stage so I, I needed, I needed to put that in there, uh.
31:01
but yes, shortcuts can help, because the health app is fine okay, it's not a bad app at all but there's quite a few things that are buried deep inside of it, medication tracking being one of those, and symptom tracking is another one. Like, you can get there, but it takes a little bit. Now we can't do anything about the medication tracking, but we can do something to make symptom tracking a little bit easier. And I promise you folks, it's a one action shortcut, it's really not that hard. So what you can do inside of shortcuts is find and add the action called log health sample. Now, I've already set this up a little bit, so instead I'm going to just delete this content. So, in the date field, you tap into it and then, above the keyboard, you'll see a row that starts with select variable and you swipe across and then you just tap current date and then done, that's it, okay. So you're just adding this on the current date and then you select the thing that you want to log. Okay, so it could be abdominal cramps, um. It could be appetite changes, uh. It could be bloating acne, um. It could be caffeine, for example, if you want to be logging that you've consumed caffeine, to see maybe whether or not it tracks with a headache, you know, the fact that you have been or haven't been drinking caffeine could be one of those things you could track. Congestion, coughing, dizziness, dry skin dry skin can be an example of various problems. Fainting, fatigue fever, whatever it is that you want to track, you can just add this and tap it. So I've Fainting fatigue fever, whatever it is that you want to track, you can just add this and tap it. So I've added fainting Now, because I haven't added fainting through shortcuts before. I have to allow access and then I'm just going to turn it on so that it can read and write that data and then, ta-da, it's just going to log fainting Now.
32:46
For some things, it Now for some things it may actually give you the option of tracking a little bit more. So, for example, alcohol consumption would want a value. So in that if you tap into the value, then you can just pop in and ask each time and then, when you run the shortcut, then it'll just say, hey, you know like what is the alcohol consumption that you wanted to add, so that you can actually add it? Because unless you are consistently drinking the exact same amount of alcohol every time. That could be a little tricky, and what you can then do with this is either you can have multiple shortcuts for logging different things. So, for example, if I wanted to log abdominal cramps, I could just have a shortcut for logging abdominal cramps, I could have one for logging headaches and so on and so forth. Or you can make this shortcut a little bit fancier and you can create a menu and I'll just pop that menu here, and then you can just say, for example, cramps, which if I could spell the word cramps, that would be so much more helpful. There we go, and then I can just drag this in.
33:51
This can also be useful if you are trying to remember what apple calls a thing, um, and then uh, and it's called something different to what you would. You would think it was um, and so then you can just have different options. So, for example, cramps and headache, um, and then I'll just change the second one to headache. So I just tapped on the little icon on the top left there to then duplicate it. So I will just allow this access. And so now I've got this shortcut, I can then add this to my home screen.
34:21
Okay, before I do that, I may want to choose an icon for it, so I could go with red and then I can look, and there's a whole bunch of options under health. So maybe I want a stethoscope and then I will just rename this to log. Well, apparently I'm just calling it log, but if I go with log symptoms, that's better. And then if I tap on that share icon, then I can scroll down a little bit and add it to my home screen. Now, the problem with log symptoms is that's a little bit too long. Add it to my home screen. Now, the problem with log symptoms is that's a little bit too long to put on my home screen. But if I just pop a little plus in front of the word symptoms, then that will do that, and then on my home screen, ta-da, I now have a dedicated app for logging symptoms which, when I tap on it, says hey, cramps or headache. That's it, very simple.
35:15
So I think that this is a particularly good way of being able to log things, especially if you're trying to determine if you have a health issue or you're just trying to build a log of data so that when you finally get to see some kind of medical professional, you can be like I know it sounds like I'm making it up, but I'm not. I have evidence to prove it and I know some people especially unfortunately, it seems women have that issue. When they go to a medical professional, they'll get told have you tried losing some weight and doing some exercise? It's like, yes, yes, I have. That does not affect my migraines. Here is all the data, here's the dizziness, the other things that I am experiencing.
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What can we do? Because when you go in there with evidence, it helps and it also kind of helps to prove to you that you're not imagining things like sometimes it can feel like okay, well, it just seems that I always get a headache at this time. But once you start tracking it, then you you can see is it every time, or is it maybe every third time you're doing a thing and that coincides with when you also have done this other thing, relatively close proximity time-wise to it. So maybe it's the other thing. So figuring out what the problem is is a huge part of any health battle, especially if it's a long-term, one of those sneaky, invisible illnesses where it's really tricky to figure out exactly what it is Collect that data. Please don't go too nuts about trying to collect all the data, but it is well worth tracking these things when you are experiencing them, just in case. Just in case there's something bigger there and you can only see it once you've got the data points, because without data points it's just a doodle on a serviette.
36:53 - Mikah Sargent (Host)
Yeah, so well put. To be able to advocate for yourself in those situations is a lot. I found even it's a lot easier when you have the data to back it up. So there's a way to do it and, as I like to remind you all at the end of the show, if you would like to get in touch with us with your Shortcuts, corner requests, your feedback, anything like that, email us iostoday at twittv. I want to remind you out there listeners, that you should consider joining Club Twit at twittv slash club twit. We'd love to have you no-transcript and that warm fuzzy feeling knowing that you're helping to support the stuff that we do here on the network. It's a lot of fun in the Club and we'd love, love, love to have you. Twittv slash Club Twit.
38:05 - Rosemary Orchard (Host)
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38:49 - Mikah Sargent (Host)
If you're looking to find me online I and all of those things, micah where can folks find you? If you're looking to find me online, I'm at Micah Sargent on many a social media network, or you can head to chiwawacoffee that's C-H-I-H-U-A-H-U-Acoffee, where I've got links to the places I'm most active online. Thank you so much for tuning in today to watch the show. Thank you so. We will be back again next week for another episode of iOS Today, but until then, it is time to say goodbye.
