03-28-2024, 11:48 AM
Weird O2ring issue
I have been using a Wellue O2ring for about 6 months with no problems. Occasionally the ring appears to lose contact briefly and I get 2 sessions overnight instead of 1, but that's pretty rare.
Last weekend I was in Las Vegas for 3 nights. The first two nights my ring kept losing connection repeatedly - sometimes after just a couple of minutes, sometimes after an hour or so. Sometimes the buzzing of the ring when it reconnected woke me up, but usually I was already awake when it happened. The frequent re-connection and vibrating was driving me crazy. I did a factory reset of the ring before the 3rd night, hoping that might help - but I had the exact same issue that night and had to take the ring off after a few hours so it wouldn't keep waking me up. My O2 wasn't dropping - in fact, since I was usually awake when it was happening, my O2 levels were higher than normal.
But on returning home (Salt Lake City area), it's been working perfectly fine, with no loss of contact, and just one session for the entire night.
I was Googling the issue and actually came across a post in another forum from someone who lives in Las Vegas and was complaining about the multiple sessions per night and that they would start overwriting each other - it was in response to someone who thought maybe static shocks were causing the connection loss.
So what could be different about my Las Vegas nights that could cause this? I was visiting family, so there was no drinking/gambling/partying/etc. Pretty much the same kind of days I have at home. The connection would drop when I was perfectly still, so it wasn't movement-related in any way. I even tried putting the ring on my thumb instead of my index finger, but had the same results (at home, I can use either thumb or index finger with no problem).
Temperature? They were having a cold front come through, and the bedroom was colder than mine usually is at home (my bedroom is over the furnace, and with the layout of the house, it's always fairly warm in the bedroom even when the rest of the house is cold). This seems like it would be the most likely issue if my fingers got cold enough to confuse the sensors, but this would happen both when my hand was outside of the covers as well as when it was under the covers and/or against my body, so I don't know.
Humidity? It was probably a little drier there, but I doubt it was enough to make any difference since it's pretty dry in Salt Lake as well.
Static shock? Doesn't seem likely when it sometimes happened when I was perfectly still and my hand was outside the covers just resting on top of the mattress.
Altitude? Around 2000ft elevation compared to my home elevation at 4200ft. Doesn't seem like that should matter, or if it did, that I'd do better at a lower altitude.
Military jets? Aliens? (OK, I'm joking... but the military jets were flying overhead frequently during the day. If they were flying at night, I didn't hear them.)
Last weekend I was in Las Vegas for 3 nights. The first two nights my ring kept losing connection repeatedly - sometimes after just a couple of minutes, sometimes after an hour or so. Sometimes the buzzing of the ring when it reconnected woke me up, but usually I was already awake when it happened. The frequent re-connection and vibrating was driving me crazy. I did a factory reset of the ring before the 3rd night, hoping that might help - but I had the exact same issue that night and had to take the ring off after a few hours so it wouldn't keep waking me up. My O2 wasn't dropping - in fact, since I was usually awake when it was happening, my O2 levels were higher than normal.
But on returning home (Salt Lake City area), it's been working perfectly fine, with no loss of contact, and just one session for the entire night.
I was Googling the issue and actually came across a post in another forum from someone who lives in Las Vegas and was complaining about the multiple sessions per night and that they would start overwriting each other - it was in response to someone who thought maybe static shocks were causing the connection loss.
So what could be different about my Las Vegas nights that could cause this? I was visiting family, so there was no drinking/gambling/partying/etc. Pretty much the same kind of days I have at home. The connection would drop when I was perfectly still, so it wasn't movement-related in any way. I even tried putting the ring on my thumb instead of my index finger, but had the same results (at home, I can use either thumb or index finger with no problem).
Temperature? They were having a cold front come through, and the bedroom was colder than mine usually is at home (my bedroom is over the furnace, and with the layout of the house, it's always fairly warm in the bedroom even when the rest of the house is cold). This seems like it would be the most likely issue if my fingers got cold enough to confuse the sensors, but this would happen both when my hand was outside of the covers as well as when it was under the covers and/or against my body, so I don't know.
Humidity? It was probably a little drier there, but I doubt it was enough to make any difference since it's pretty dry in Salt Lake as well.
Static shock? Doesn't seem likely when it sometimes happened when I was perfectly still and my hand was outside the covers just resting on top of the mattress.
Altitude? Around 2000ft elevation compared to my home elevation at 4200ft. Doesn't seem like that should matter, or if it did, that I'd do better at a lower altitude.
Military jets? Aliens? (OK, I'm joking... but the military jets were flying overhead frequently during the day. If they were flying at night, I didn't hear them.)
