Ship of Fools: UK BioBank

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Posted by Chamois (# 16204) on :

Is anybody else on the Ship taking part in the UK Biobank ?

I'm wearing the optional activity monitor on my wrist this week. It's supposed to be compatible with all possible activities, sports and pastimes except saunas, which apparently get too hot for it. The information leaflet that came with it asks me not to take it off all week. Unless I take a sauna.

However, I discovered this afternoon that wearing the activity monitor is NOT entirely compatible with re-organising a compost heap. Both the monitor and the strap got extremely dirty and I couldn't clean them or my arm properly without taking the monitor off.

I've snuck it back on quickly and hope I haven't ruined the research……… [Paranoid]

Have any other Shipmates had a BioBank experience they'd like to share?

Posted by Polly Plummer (# 13354) on :

Yes, I'm one of their customers and had the activity monitor a while ago - fortunately didn't have to tackle any compost heaps at the time. What I find frustrating is that you never get any reports on how you're doing yourself; just have to send your information in for the greater good.

Whenever they ask me to report on what I ate the day before, it's always after a day when I've been out to a fancy meal, or been entertaining; never when I've been doing my best to eat sensibly!

Posted by Lothlorien (# 4927) on :

I have re-opened this thread. I feel there is a possibility that I may have accidentally closed it by brushing that button while reading it on iPad. If that is what happened, I apologise. Certainly, in almost five years of fairly solid iPad use, nothing like that has ever happened before. Whatever. Thread is open for business again.

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Posted by Beenster (# 242) on :

I started in the BioBank thing but got away. I was upset that there was no upset to this "health monitoring" in the sense that they attained all the information but there was no guidance on the back of it. I just felt some feedback as to what to look out for might have been of use or how I compared with my peers.

I did learn - the optician guy - naughtily told me that I had the beginnings of cataracts. I didn't need to worry for several years but they were there. To me, that information was gold. The optician guy told me he wasn't meant to be telling me as such and requested I didn't pass on that he had told me.

That just didn't sit right.

I was sorry to leave, but didn't like the way it was a one-way street.

Posted by Ethne Alba (# 5804) on :

My experience with Bio Bank has been great.

I find the fact that i can regulate my level of involvement with them to be very helpful.

They have Always passed onto my gp anything that (even slightly) they are concerned about. In fact, without them i would never have dared insist on action from my gp.

[Deeply garbled sentence there: put it down to the post over in Prayers of the Faithful....]

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