Symptom diary app update and future developments

Well, hello there. Welcome to chronic insights. The podcast for the chronically ill today is going to be a bit different to previous episodes because it's been a pretty bad week for me. Just my. Well, yeah, health condition has been kicking my ***. It's really been kicking my ***. So I don't really have much prepared, so I'm not going to be doing, uh, science based. Topic today and what I'm planning to do is just go over some plans that I have for my symptom barrier app. Features that have got on the road map. So this episode is mainly going to be for people who are using the app. Just to get a bit. Of a a bit of a sense for. What's coming down the pipeline, the features that I've got planned and some of them are quite exciting, I think. And give me the opportunity to maybe train in yourself if any of the features you want to see. Pushed up the list maybe. You can e-mail me and just and let me know. You know, I want to see this one done next. So here I've been. In quite a bit of pain this week. Very tired. For whatever reason, my axial spinal arthritis is. Just worse this week, which you know, happens. It's not. It's not as. Bad as it used to be years ago, I used to get extreme pain just stuck in bed, unable to. Almost unable to move. Wasn't too bad this week, but it was. It was enough for me just to. Just have to give up for a couple of days spent pretty much a couple of days just in bed. I mean, it's just tearing the wall or. Burning through seasons one and two of the wire channel watch for a while. Just love that show so. Yeah, someones going through these periods where I just. I just have to give up and just and just be miserable. And just sort of admit defeat sometimes. You know, just OK. Yeah, you win. For a couple of days at least. Just give yourself time to. Just rest and justice. Stop fighting for for a while. So feeling maybe a bit more positive today. I wasn't sure if I was after I was going to do. A podcast episode at all, but I thought. And that made me, you know, even more miserable thinking. Ohh. You know. This conditions disease holds me back from doing all these things that I want to do. But I saw well. Great thing about this podcast is. Only the people you listen to it go through the same thing. So you understand what it's like. And it's OK that maybe. This episode will just be a bit more. I'm prepared and probably quite short. So I'm really glad to have you here. I'm really glad that that you're listening. And I'm really glad that. You understand? Have you seen that? So I think I think next week I'll be. I'm planning on. Doing some episodes on. Autoimmune disease and immune system. And the reason is. There is so many autoimmune diseases. So my condition axial spondyloarthritis is is an autoimmune disease. And several lots and lots of other conditions, lots of arthritis conditions. Even even fibromyalgia is is possibly. Nobody really knows yet exactly like a lot of health conditions, exactly why it happens. Exactly what the cause is. But recent research shows that even when fibromyalgia might be an autoimmune disease, it's caused potentially buying immune system. And I think all three recent research there seems to be more people researching autoimmune. Disease and. The connection. With long same health conditions because of COVID. Because of long coverage. Because so many people who have caught COVID and now experiencing the long term health conditions, which is being called 1 COVID and. It's making people realise. You know so many. Viruses and. Other things that affect the immune system. Are these triggers for these? Conditions which just just keep going. So there's a lot of interesting research going on at the moment with autoimmune disease. So I thought what would be good is just to cover the basics of. How the immune system works? How it goes wrong? Because it's, it's actually really interesting. It's it's fascinating stuff. But I don't have anything prepared so. Maybe I'll be doing that next week. So is that today. I think what I'm going to do is just is just make. This a really big. App update. Just a big. A a big overview of all the things I've been working on and on things I've got planned. So in the past week I I've. Made a couple of fixes, so if you don't know this is this is for my symptom timing app called Chronic Insights. And it's it's when I started creating years back and would be about five years or something like that. When I first started making this app. This was after I I had to quit my my long my. Sorry, my brain folk is. Is affecting me, so it's I sometimes lose track of words and what I'm saying because I didn't sleep very well last night either. My hips were were aching, so it was. It was quite. It was quite difficult to sleep. But what was I saying? So we are the reasoning. Start making this app with. Cause I I quit my full time. That was the word I was looking for my full time job in 18 because I was just struggling so much with with pain and fatigue. And finding meetings. Very hard. Having to do things at specific times long hours. Stress of. What happens when I have to call in sick, which was quite a lot and and that made my condition worse and so I I eventually just decided I can't. I just can't do this anymore, so it took me a while to figure out what what I could do and. It started off as just like a side hobby. Just something. To use for myself because I tried lots of symptom diary apps and I didn't really find any that I liked and so just as a kind of a hobby, just something to do. I started playing around with with creating my own app. And quite quickly realised that actually this is. This is quite cool. This is this is really useful. It helps so much to be able to record things. Quickly and easily and be able to take to my doctor's appointments to my rheumatologists, to my physios. Charts and graphs and notes. And all this information about what's been happening to me, because otherwise I've gotta, I've gotta kind of explain it all in words. And quite often. I would just forget things or. Or I just. Wouldn't have the energy or the the clarity of thought to really explain it all? And sometimes I would just sort of skip over details because I just, I just didn't really want to talk about. All the pain that had been in and all the fatigue and I would just. Sort of. On the statement like how how bad things were and and how much they're struggling. But if you if you go. To a shop of. Of your pain and how it's been going up. And down. You can just show that to somebody. And then later when we started developing the 3D feature, which I think is is the best part of the app where you can actually draw on a 3D model. Your pain where it is and how it changes. So like is it in your back? It's in my back one days in my hips and other days sometimes it's in my shoulders and my back sometimes it's. You know all over. And being able to show somebody a picture of that. An actual, you know, a a model of a person coloured with with like red to represent intense pain. Yahoo to represent moderate pain and so on. That's really powerful and and I realised. This is what I should do this is. This is the answer. This is something that I can I can work on at home at my own pace. I can work around my health condition. I met just. It makes me so happy to feel that I'm doing some of that is helping other people. With chronic health conditions, something that helps other people go through. Their journey just a little bit easier and make it a little bit. And so one thing that has really helped me this week. We have just been feeling miserable. Is reading all the fantastic emails that. People being written to me about about the app, how how they they really like using it. Have they found it useful and and given me encouragement and and feedback and feature suggestions and bug reports? It really, really just. It just it makes me feel so happy. I really, really appreciate all those emails. So thank you everybody who is. Who's written in? It really means a lot. It really does. So some of the things that people have been pointing out and they've been working on this week, there was a little problem with the story where it was. Miss misrepresenting some of the. Medication doses that have been I think. Doses that have been missed were showing as doses tanking, or maybe it was the other way around. I can't remember. So it's just a little, a little mistake and how the how the information was being shown on the story tap. So that's been fixed rolling out today, it might, it might be available right now if not maybe tomorrow. I made the story look. A little bit better be. Been just been improving the the layout of. It a little bit. Couple of bug fixes. Oh yeah, and the new there was a new feature I put in the week before. And learning to attach notes to symptom readings and to factors. So that when you're entering the reading link pane at the same time, you can add a note. And that was a that was. A suggestion that that was made that would improve the app. But some people don't. Want that? Some people find that extra step. Is just where it's an extra step, it just it just makes it a little bit more tedious to to enter readings and and I know from my own experience. Keeping the symptom diary can be quite tedious. It's it's incredibly useful, but it's it's tedious, which is why I've tried to make the app. Is easy to use. As possible, and so some people don't want to attach notes to to readings, and they would rather not have. That extra screen to have to go through. So what I've done is I've also added a switch to the top of that screen. Where you can just turn that off for each symptom for each factor so that you don't. See that screen again. So again that that is in the same update I think. So that either live now or in the next day or two. So we're looking out for that if you want to turn that off, you can. And I think that was that was it for this week. Because I I haven't. Been able to do very much. Because I've been in bed most of the week. Soon, let's get to a few of the things that I've got planned. So we'll start with a few little bits and pieces and few little features. Little tweaks that people have asked for, and then I'll get on to some bigger features, some really interesting stuff that. I hope you're you're going to. Find useful. So somebody. So I'm just looking at my white board. I've got a white board behind my desk. Where I do my. Where I developed the app on my computer. And I'm just looking at the whiteboard now where where I write these things down. So if you e-mail me with a feature suggestion, if it's something that I can do something that's feasible, what I do is I. Write it on the build. And then each week and try and pick out one or two that I can do that week. And so I kind of try and cherry pick ones that I think are going to benefit the most number of people. Uncertainty. Prioritise things that I think are quite niche or not not as useful to as many people. So if any of these. Things that you would find useful, let me know and I'll put it a little. Bit further up the list. Just e-mail me at james@chronicinsights.com. So one thing that somebody wanted was just being able to see that average symptom scores more easily over a selected date range. So I think that's quite a. That's quite a a cool idea. I'm thinking maybe on the charts or the main diary list that the diary tab where you got your list of charts. Maybe you could have like the average. As a number, maybe in the corner of the chart or sort of floating over the top of it somehow. And then the average would change depending on the the date range that you got selected using using the date range slider at the bottom. So that might be quite cool. And sort of the similar thing with the heat map, so that for the 3D heat map. And you're looking at. Maybe the 3D model for pain, for example, and you're looking at the the overall heat map. Currently you just see the heat map for all of time. So all of your readings combined. Goes into that heat map to show you which areas of the body you're recording the most pain most often. And again, the suggestion was we'll. Can I actually? Can we see a heat map just for last week or the week before or the week before that depending on what date we've got selected? I think and again I think that's a really, really neat idea. It's a really cool idea. It might be a bit tricky to do though, because. The heat map is it's quite. It's quite a complicated calculation so. On the 3D model, how it basically works? Is it the 3D model is covered in in literally thousands of points. Actually for the for the whole body it's. It's 10s of thousands of points. And so when you? When you paint on the 3D model with your finger, it it records that area that you that you paint with your finger as thousands of little data points. And so you. Can imagine all. The time if you if you're recording this every day for a year for a couple of years. You can end up with. Hundreds of thousands, maybe millions, of data points. And so to create that heat map, I've got a process. All those data points. And so it takes a little bit of time it takes depending on how fast the phone is, it can take a few seconds and that's why when you're cold or reading, you might notice. The little progress the sort of spinny circle over the. The little picture that you get next to your chart which shows the 3D and sometimes it takes a few seconds because it's going through all of that data and processing it. And so if you want and and so that happens like in the background is is this background process that calculation and so to be able to showing just the heat map over a certain date range, it would have to recalculate that every time. And so. Just logistically, that might be quite complicated. To to do. So I'm not sure. I think it's feasible, but I'm not sure, but if there's something that you really want. Let me know because I'll move it up the list and and I'll put I'll put a bit more thought. In how I can actually do that? The smart watch, so recording quick recording things using the watch, a lot of people really like that feature, so it's currently it's compatible with the Apple Watch. And with. Wear OS. So where OS is Googles smartwatch technology and you can get it on for example that the Galaxy Watch 5. And others. And so currently what you can do is you can quick record symptoms. So just for on the watch face you can you can open the the chronic incense app on the watch you can select a symptom and and you can record say 8 out of 10. For the symptom, you can record the time and you can record the duration and then just tap save and it saves to your phone. And the reason I created this was because I now how. How you know? Like I was saying before, how tedious it can be to keep recording, you know, keep keep the memory and to to record in your centenary and and so one little thing that can help. Instead of having to bring out your phone and open the phone and turn it on. Type in a code or whatever you got to do. Open the app, blah blah blah. It's actually much easier if you can just tap on a watch, especially if you're living in bed or if you're on the sofa and your phone is is in the next room or something. And again I this is this is the problem that I had for ancient myself. You know, I was trying to record. My pain in a diary and so many times I would be lying on the sofa and my phone was on the table. But how is it my all my joints were just aching and I just didn't want to? It's so it's just like. That sucks. Hang on. What if? You could just have it on the watch. I thought. Brilliant. Yeah. Resting up. But currently you can only do symptoms. And So what I what I thought is maybe I should add other things as well. So maybe being neutral court factors on the watch would be good. So like you know, if you've taken a medication or something like that or you've done some exercise or stretches or meditation or whatever. Actors you will record maybe mood. I'm not sure how mood will work because. If you've used the new. Feature it takes up quite a lot of screen space to select the mood words, so you have to have a think about how that would work on on a watch face. Maybe you'd scroll through a list of words instead something. Like that. And maybe recording vitals as well. So that's a feature I I could also work on. You know, adding those things to the watch to to make that feature even better. Tutorials so a few people ask for tutorials, so that's definitely something that that I. Want to do? I'm thinking of bringing on Instagram. Just turning, turning up my heat blanket. Do you reuse things? These electric heat blankets? We use them a lot. I I find that they're very useful just for. Helping on with my aches and pains, just turning mine up. Saying tutorials. Yeah, so that's something that I'm going to do at some point again that that's going to take quite a. Lot of time. To do so, I'm not sure when I'm going to be able to do. Those, but it's definitely on my list. What else have I got? Yeah. So something else about comparing weeks. So is there a better way to compare one week with the next week? And there is there you can sort of do that already on the insights. Tab. Because along the top you've got the different types of chart and one of them is is weekly. So you can see things as a weekly bar chart. But I did wonder for you I could add. Moving some weekly line charts to. The detail screen that you get when you tap a chart in the diary tab. So if you haven't noticed in the main diary list. The list of charts you can tap on a chart and that will take you to the screen where it. Shows you all. Of the all of the readings that you've made. And maybe I could break that up by week. And show you just a little chart for just that week and then just. The next week. But if you have any. Other ideas? If if you think, well, what about this?

Let me know.

Final request for adding some hormone trackers to the vitals list to help with cycle tracking. Some in discussion. With somebody about that just trying. To figure out what would be. The best way to do that? A really, really cool thing that I might be able to do quite soon is adding. Some things to the winter feature, so if you haven't used the weather feature that is, that allows you to add weather charts to sensor diary so you can see things like temperature, precipitation, air pressure, things like that too. Right. So you can see where the for example temperature has an effect on your symptoms, which a lot of people think. Does affect their symptoms? I I do. I I do think. Especially when it's. Damp and and cold, which it is in the UK at the moment it's been damp and cold for. Feels like a couple of weeks now because we're just stuck in under this this weather pan, even though it's the middle of summer. Which maybe is why I'm feeling not very good this week. Maybe it's maybe it's contributing, but it's difficult to know unless you track these things all the time. And you can compare the two things. So that's the idea behind the weather feature. But something that I might be able to add is air quality indicators to the same feature, so things like particulate matter in in the air. Carbon monoxide and other. Other things like. I think they're called like I was looking at the list of things that I. Can get. SO2 I think that's like soul food. Dioxide or something like that. Other things that people can measure in the air that that are measured is is indicators of the the air quality. Because again, some people might think that. The air quality has an impact on the symptoms. So that might be a really useful thing for some people to have in their symptom dairy. So we're looking into that. I use as a service to to get my weather reports and it looks like. They now do air quality indicators and if they do, I should be able to add that quite easily to that app so that that would be really cool. If you want to see that, let me know and I'll and I'll pump that up the list. So some other things. Those are all things. That I've got. On my like my. By sort of immediate To Do List. There's a few things I've got on. The back burner. I've got a sort of back burner list. One of them is formed. And this is a really big, big feature. This is something that quite a few people have asked for, but I haven't done yet because. It's a really complicated thing to add, so when we see. Other people a. Lot of people's health conditions are potentially affected by. Food that they eat. Maybe particularly ingredients. But it's so hard to figure that out. And again I have my own personal experience with this. I I struggled. For quite a while with IBS symptoms, which? I think we're actually triggering my my axial spondyloarthritis because ASP does also cause inflammation in the gut. And I think maybe that. So it turned out that I had a. A sort of intolerance to onions and garlic. And once I started following this. Diet called the fodmap diet, which and fodmap stands for. It's like a it's an acronym for certain. Types of carbohydrates. I think. I think. I think that's what it was. That are in certain fruits and vegetables. And some people just don't process that very well in the gut. And so it ends up causing sort of gas and bloating and just. Upsets you? Tell me anything. Really. That was maybe. Also triggering my AAS because once I started cutting out onions and garlic which are packed full of these fog maps. And and and a few other things as well. I I definitely noticed an improvement in my symptoms, but I don't think that took ages to figure out and and if it wasn't for my GP, suggesting this as a as a possible thing to try. Because it is like a A you know, there's there's real science behind it. When you say diet, it's not like a sort of fad diet, it's it's an actual. Scientifically researched phenomenon that some people can't process these things. So if it wasn't for GP suggesting, Oh well, you know, you could try cutting these things out and see if it improves. Your IBS symptoms. I wouldn't figure that out because. To to to go through all of the ingredients that you that you take. And try and figure out systematically which ones might be triggering your symptoms. It's a really complicated thing to do and so. I wouldn't really. Like to add a food feature to chronic insights. To help people record. What they're eating down to the level of ingredients and then. See if a particular ingredient is related to increasing in symptoms. But to do that, that's that's going to be very difficult to do. To do well. Because what I do, what I would like to do is allow people to search a database of maybe recipes of foods. And maybe even take a photograph of food. You know, this is a photograph of what I'm eating and for it to. Process that photograph and maybe give you some options to choose from just to make it easier to enter in the ingredients. So maybe you know, take a photograph of. Cheese and toast or something? And you would and you would. Pull up ohh this looks like cheese and toast. OK, so that's bread. That's cheese. And so that you didn't have to search for those ingredients individually. That would be really, really cool. That would be awesome. And and I think that would be really useful. But to implement that, that would take. Me, I mean that that. Could take me. Could take me. I don't. Know six months or something like that. Of just concentrating on that to do, to do it well. So again, if if if you really want that added to the app, please let me know because otherwise it's going to stay on the back burner because it's such a big thing that I've kind of been putting off because I know that it's going to take a very long time. But if you really you really want that, then maybe it's time that I started working on that. Another feature I've got on the backburner is it's related to the 3D feature allowing. And different. 3D models which have amputations. So for people who have amputations, missing limbs. I think being able to modify the 3D model to show that. Could potentially be extremely useful and and makes the app a lot more inclusive. It's going to be very, very tricky to. Do, but I think it's possible. Because what I'm going to have to do is. Somehow modify the 3D models only in a dynamic way so that you can you know so that can this limb is amputated at this point. And I I think we can do. That. But again, I think that's going to it's going to take quite a while to figure that one out. But if that's important to. You let let me know. And we'll move out on this. Languages I would like to translate the app into more languages, so currently I've got. I've done a German translation, or more specifically, my mum has done a German translation because she used to be a German teacher. And she's really helped out with she's like 90% of the translation for that. Thank you. I've done a Spanish translation. And Italian and French and Chinese. And I think there's one more. Is there no, I think that's it. But those, those other translations, Spanish, the French, the Italian, the Chinese. Actually, you know the Chinese I also got done by by an actual person, but the others? I've kind of just used Google Translate to do this, so the translations are probably not going to be great. So if you speak. Those languages, if you can help me with the translations and you're willing to. Spend maybe a couple of hours. Helping me with translations. Please get in contact and if we and if anybody knows any other languages. Please get in contact and use a website to manage translations. So what I can do is just send. You a link. To this website where it will list all of the text. That I have in the app. And empty boxes to the side where the translations can go. So all you have to do is just log in and pop the transformations in and hit save. So if if you would like. To really help me out. I would I. Would love it. If if anybody who thinks they can help with those translations, please do get in contact and let me know. That would that would be a massive help. Reminders. Some people want reminders to make readings in the symptom day because it's, you know. It's helpful to record things on a regular basis because then you get a fuller, more accurate picture of your symptoms because a lot of the time what? We do or. Or at least this is what I find is I tend to record my symptoms when they're when they're bad because. When they're bad, I kind of think about these symptoms and that makes me think, oh, you know what, I should probably record this in my symptom diary. And what I don't do is or I do less is record when my symptoms are good. But recording when the symptoms are good is just as important because then you get at. The full picture of of what's going on. But that can be that can be. Difficult to do. I didn't. I haven't added reminders. So far because. I didn't actually want to nag people about using the app. I don't like notifications popping up on my phone. I've got I turn most of mine off because. And that's just. Me. You know, I I kinda hate being. I hate my my phone constantly beeping at me. I just want to be notified if something really important happens and. I I actually think that if you forget about recording these symptoms for a couple of days. That can be a good thing. It can be a good thing. Obviously it's like a triangle between. It's useful to record things frequently, but then do you if if you go for a couple of days or a week even you know not thinking about any symptoms, not not keeping anything in your symptoms. Any. Maybe that's a good thing. And so that's why I didn't want to necessarily add reminders to to that app. But if you if that's something that you want, maybe I can just make it an optional thing. That you can turn on. Let me know, let me know what. You think if you want to see that? Let me know. Something that a few people struggling with is again, this is a 3D feature, so rotating the 3D model can sometimes be quite tricky. Especially if you're using for example the, the, the whole body 3D model and you're just trying to record something on the hands. For example on the arms. Because the model rotates around the centre point. It can be quite tricky to get the rotation right. So I've been thinking maybe I could do something that makes that a bit easier. Maybe you could? Maybe like double tap on an arm and it would just show. You the arm. And then you could rotate the arm on its own, something like that. Again, it's going to be a really complicated feature to to implement, but if you struggle with the 3D rotation, please let me know because because that feature might I might make a higher priority if I if I know that more people would find that useful. Thanks. Yeah. Thanks so. Some people have multiple health conditions. Maybe either 5 or 10. Sometimes it can be useful for some people. To be able to see just the symptoms for a particular condition, because maybe you're not mean. But you know, I mean on my symptoms, I mean my, my list of charts on the main diary tab. There's a lot of stuff there, it's. I don't know. Like. 30 things maybe 40. So when someone let's scroll through. And so that's why I added the philtre button at the top. If you haven't seen it, there's there's a little philtre button, so you can just. Just narrow it down to just symptoms or just factors. But a useful thing to add. To that might be. Can we philtre just on one condition? So the idea would be that you could tag symptoms to be related to one or more of your conditions. And then in the philtre drop down, you could philtre on just a particular condition. So that might be cool if if if you struggle with that, if you have lots of health conditions and you want to be able to philtre just on one specific condition. Let me know because I could I could potentially add that kind of tag system to help help with that. And a similar a similar feature that some people will find useful is being able to add multiple users, so some people record symptom Diaries for themselves and also for somebody else. Maybe maybe a child or a grandparent, or somebody that they're caring for. Because currently it's it's kind of A1 user app. You know it's everything is recorded just for you. But potentially what I could do is add sort of OK, use your account switch so that you could add another person. And when you switch to that other. Person, they have their own. Completely separate set of symptoms. And factors and vitals. So that would be potentially a really nice feature to add. And then there's the import feature. So some people, especially when they first starting to use the app, they already have a load of symptom data recorded somewhere else. And so. What is useful potential to some people is being able to import things, import existing data. Using via a spreadsheet for example. And that would be that would. Be quite tricky to do, because what we're gonna have to do is create some sort of template spreadsheet with a specific format. And people would have to enter the data. Using that specific format so that the app can read it in automatically. I knew I knew from you know, from my IT job. A little what I used to do was data analytics and data processing for for large companies and so I've got quite a lot of experience with all problems that that can crop up when you're importing data from. Third parties from other sources, from user inputted data. And what you have to do is you have to do a lot of checking to check the format. That's correct. So that you know, for example, if you're entering a date, a date, and a time for a symptom in a spreadsheet manually. Are you entering the date as day, month, year or year? Month, date? Sorry brain fog again. We can. Yeah. Month day. Yeah. So, you know, if you're using the American Date system, basically. You could completely misinterpret the dates when you're importing. If you don't realise that it's, it's that format. And you know, lots of other other issues. You know, what if somebody? Puts in. So like instead of eight out of 10. So he puts in 11 out of 10. Just you know it's a mistake or they put it in a. Letter instead of a number. You have to do all this checking. It's basically. It's called usually. It's usually called sanitising the data, cleaning it up and checking and, and then there's a problem of or. How do you actually how many files do you? Need to import. Would it be a separate file for importing your symptom data and separate? Well, for importing the conditions in the separate file for importing factors. A separate file for virals and virals have different units, so you're recording for example, body temperature in Celsius or Fahrenheit. And how do you how do you deal with that? So it's? Actually really really. Really complicated thing to do, so that's quite far down on my list currently, but again. If it's actually a little bit, you would find really really useful. Please let me know because otherwise it can stay, but we're quite low on the list because it's it's it's very complicated and currently I think I don't think it will benefit a lot of people. I think most people just start from scratch. We don't know. And so that's my that's the. Road map that I've got for the app. So a lot of stuff, I think a lot of really interesting stuff. And then beyond? That I've also been thinking of doing more apps, so I do a. Every day I do. On most days, I should say. I do. It's a. Form of exercise, although it's not really an exercise. It's called somatics. It's a little bit like yoga or Pilates in that it's something that you do on a mat. And it kind of it. Might look like yoga if you if you've seen somebody doing somatics. You're running on the mat and you're doing specific movements. But it's it's it's also a lot different to yoga or Pilates because it's it's not about. It's not about stretching and holding positions and strengthening. It's somatics is actually more about relaxing the body. And so. It's very it. Most of the movements are very gentle, very slow, very sort of relaxing movements, which is why I I I love somatics I because I can do it even when I'm feeling tired and when I'm feeling sore and when I'm in pain. I actually find that it really helps reduce the joint pain, the tension that I have in my body because of because of my disease. But it seems really it's it's not very well known and most people don't know, have never heard of somatics and don't know what it's about. I didn't know what it was about until. A couple of years ago, somebody who also has the same condition that I have axial spondyloarthritis or AAS. Somebody else who has ALS became discovered it and became an instructor and did a a session on Facebook. And and at a conference for Ness, which is the national excellence polyarthritis to say his name is Ian Young, and you can probably find him if you Google Ian Young semantics. He's my instructor. And he does classes over zoom, so every week I go to a class and. I just. I just find it it. It really helps. Because it it's not about. You know, I'll. Probably do a whole episode just on somatics. I think that's what I'll do because it it takes quite a long time to explain that the theory and the idea behind somatics. And why it's different to to to other kinds of exercise. But my idea is maybe I'd like to make a semantics app to help show people and teach people how to do it. So that's that's something that I've got planned for the the sort of distant future and potentially either a meditation app or. What I I'm not sure what. To call it but. You know, like if you feel to use calm. The app, the sort of meditation app. There are few link stories on there because you can get like sleep stories. There will be sleep. But what I like to do is maybe do stories to help you when you're in pain. Maybe just like. Almost like holidays like audio holidays. So that you know if you're in pain, if you're in bed and miserable, just the idea is you can put on your headphones and you can. You can take a holiday to Spain or something like that, where the audio would describe where you are. Maybe you go to tourist attraction and you would describe that tourist attraction and the things that you'd see there. So that's another idea of another and and last thing potentially we would like to do is do app development training for people with chronic health conditions. Because I've I've found app development is is actually works quite well with my chronic health. Condition because like I said at the start I can work at home, I can work my own rules, so it actually works pretty well and I wonder if it would help other people who have chronic illness to learn how to create. So there's potentially something that I would like to do. So again, if if that's something that you would be interested in and. Please e-mail me and let. Me know, because maybe that's something that I can start thinking more about. So we think that's it. I'm I'm super tired. You can. You can. I don't know if you can tell, but. I'm struggling a bit. Just with my energy and a lot today, so. Yeah, I think that's it experience. I hope you really enjoyed this this little peek into the future of the Chronic Insights app. And and let me know what you think. So I I hope you're doing OK but. But if you're not doing OK, if you're struggling with your health condition, then just just know that me too. You know this together. So I hope that helps. I hope that helps. Just. To know that. I'm here to and I'm struggling to. I'm here for you. OK. I'll see you next week springs and maybe we'll talk a bit about the immune system. So until then. I'm going to sign off. And go to bed. OK, bye bye spoonies, love you.