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I note this suggestion has been made, but I want to add a strong second. Why not put a manual input in the fitbit app for blood pressure. Then incorporate that into the overall health or heart health assessment. currently having to use another app for that.
Copied from Fitbit's latest financial report: "Fitbit Health Solutions develops health and wellness solutions designed to help increase engagement, improve health outcomes, and drive a positive return for employers, health plans and health systems".
I fail to see how this corporate objective can be achieved WITHOUT supporting blood pressure data collection, one of the primary collectable indicators of good health/well=being. The health Insurance industry in the US with whom Fitbit wish to collaborate (or rather NEED to), will ensure this is mandatory functionality within a few years. I suggest this will motivate Fitbit more than posting pleading messages onto this discussion board. In fact I can feel my own blood pressure rising, caused primarily by posting again to this board, an event sadly not yet to be recorded on the Fitbit app.
I would like to see a feature where you can enter and track items like cholesterol or glucose or (name your blood count level you'd like to track) and monitor it over time as level of physical activity changes. Fitbit tracks weight over time or water intake over time; why not important blood test result numbers. In addition, what about a notes field available each day to be able to note items like what was eaten prior to going to bed and how that impacted sleep patterns (which is tracked by Fitbit).
I don't expect the tracker to measure my bp. But please put a log into the app where I can input and monitor my bp along with all my other health stats.
I also want to see blood pressure recording capability added to the Fitbit app. It doesn't need to be anything to do with the tracker itself - it should be a simple app update to make seeing as you can already manually add lots of things. This would be a significant step closer to a complete view of the user's health... and surely an additional selling point at virtually no cost?
Just an FYI. Since Fitbit most likely doesn't even read this post, I found another app that does what we're all looking for. It's called Tactio Health and it syncs with the Fitbit app. It also tracks glucose for those who have suggested it. I've been using it for a few months and I like it. Also, you can email the data directly to your doctor and some heath systems actually use Tactio so it will update them automatically.
Look for the app Tactio Health (see Goreedy’s post above).There are other 3rd party Fitbit data managers that assist in interfacing with apps like Apple Health, which might be useful for some folks. Search Fitbit and manager or data.
As a diabetic I’d love to have all my health tracking in one place! Also to be able to see glucose levels over laying meal tracking would be awesome to understanding fluctuations and how diet contributes to levels.
I am a type 2 diabetic and most days check my fasting blood sugar and blood sugar 2 hrs after meals. I would love to have a tile on my app/dashboard that encourages/reminds me/gives me a space to do so daily so I can track improvement. I do keep track of what I eat but I have to keep a separate journal for my blood sugar readings. I would love to see it all in one place. Obviously this would be an opt-in area since not everyone is diabetic, but I believe something like this (maybe with reminders you can set at certain times to remind you to test yourself...sometimes I do forget because I am new at it) would be SO beneficial! Either that or a journal tile in the app so all my info is in one place, but I would love something that could track change over time to see my ups and downs and compare it to my activity/food intake that day.
I am a 64 year old male Type 2 diabetic who has recently discovered the benefits of Fitbit....the only thing lacking is a place on it where I can enter my 3 times daily blood glucose readings.....this to me is a no brainer and should be instituted imediately.....place it on our dash boards...thank you.
I think there should be a feature that allows you to monitor your blood pressure for people that have blood pressure issues to ensure that people with these issues can monitor it and not run into more serious health problems
I would like to add my voice to those already in place, to request the ability to log Blood Sugar and Blood Pressure via the Fit bit AP. The Blood Sugar feilds should also include "time of test" and "time since last meal". Additionally, if it doesn't already exist, the ability to generate reports to present to my physician that would graph Blood Sugar levels, with the 'time of test' and "time since last meal" values, Blood pressure levels, and the option to include food/meals with their respective nutrition data, would aide my physician with a quick and easy overview of my health activities. I would expect all logged data to be selectable in the report.
Thank you for you time. I look forward to an update.
It's so crazy to me that there is tracking for so many macros but FitBit doesn't support the tracking of sugar or saturated fats - two of the things people are trying to avoid the most and keep low numbers on. It would be amazing if we could see grams for Saturated vs. Unsaturated Fats as wel as Sugar in our dashboard.
And speaking of that, I do most of my logging from my desktop at work so I can easily see where I am at with my macros, but when I get home and log dinner on my app or on the weekends away from my computer, I can't see that information. It's so frustrating to be out at dinner and want to know if I can have that beer or those fries or eat the bun on my burger, but I can't see how many carbs I've had that day. It would be so helpful to be able to access those macro numbers from the app and not just form your desktop.
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