Thank You, and good luck with your recovery.
To begin with, I absolutely hate wearing watches; except for periods of employment or athletics when it was necessary, I have always preferred clocks or pocket watches.
I think I posted on this elsewhere on this forum, but I only got a Series 3 in the spring because I was noticing the random elevated heart rate, but by the time I could get a pulse/ox meter on my finger, it was over. The very first day I wore the Series 3, I got seven notifications of elevated heart rate over 140bpm at rest. Okay, that was worth $300 (refurb) to find that out and get myself to a cardiologist.
But what I didn’t expect is how useful the damn thing is in so many other ways, especially using Siri and reminders/tasks, home control, and other automations.
And I’m an absolute sucker for gamification; I ended up being far more serious than I thought I already was about daily exercise; closing rings became a priority; and increasing ring goals became another. Lost a bunch of weight.
But the truth is, if not for health issues, I’d not be wearing this all the time; certainly not 23 hours a day (off only for charging during showers).
My cardiologist also wanted me to get a Kardia or an AliveCor; but, one, I didn’t want yet another thing that had to be on my person at all times so I could access and use it within 60 seconds (my episodes are typically very brief); and, two, the rumor mill was rife with bits about additional heart health options coming in the Fall. Since my heart otherwise checked out as being perfectly healthy, we agreed I could wait for Series 4, and I ordered day one (trade-in value was excellent for my pristine Series 3).
But we didn’t know it would take so long for the ECG to be activated; the docs were pusing me again to get at least spend the $130 on the AliveCor (with case), and it was in my Amazon cart when I saw the early AM rumor ECG would deploy that day. Glad I waited, because it is the fact it is on and automatically looking without manual testing that allowed me to then do the intentional EKG during an event.
I don’t think I would have been able to get the AliveCor out of its carrier in time to even catch the event.
LOL. I, too, have a “runner’s heart”, and have to advise nurses and such that my resting rate goes into the mid-30s, and I’m fine. I also have a heck of a time coming up from anesthesia or sedatives; a number of times I’ve been kept overnight for what were supposed to have been outpatient procedures (mostly because I live alone and they don’t want the liability of releasing me loopy or lightheaded).
I also had to tell Apple Watch/Health.app to stop alerting me just because I went under 50bpm.
My BP, however, which also used to be ~95/~55, has indeed increased dramatically along with this [whatever this is] condition; now I’m tracking around ~120/~80 at rest, but it will really shoot up with activity. Trouble is I’m already on so many meds with Parkinson’s syndrome, they could be causing it in the first place, and I’m never a fan of taking this med to deal with that med, which might mean another med to deal with this med or that med or the other med.
I’m really curious what the demographics is here on TidBits; are we all old enough we should all have Apple Watch? And how many of us have been reading TidBits since the early 90s? Pushing thirty years soon; crazy.
[@tommy started a new thread for this topic: Age and location of TidBITS Talkers? -Adam]
Cheers, All.