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dpcaxx t1_iteelob wrote

Plot twist, it was also the watch that caused the cancer.

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Yarddogkodabear t1_iteezbt wrote

Convincing people to strap on chips and get wired up for pre-emptive medical preventable medicine.

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geneticeffects t1_itef1zh wrote

I have thought about getting an Apple watch, so that I can administer my own ECG and determine if I have heart issues.

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banme5lol t1_iteftjg wrote

2014 called. It wants its news back.

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NearlyNakedNick t1_itehqma wrote

I realized I had PTSD partially because of my Samsung Active 2's heart rate monitor.

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Freethinker9 t1_itejkhw wrote

I had a Fitbit and it notified me about high heart rate. It was about 150+ beats a minute after being around 110 to 120bpm. Thought it was a heart attack and almost called the ambulance. Wife took me to the er and it ended up being pneumonia.

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DevAnalyzeOperate t1_itejp54 wrote

I've seen somebody who caught a pretty severe medical issue early with a smartwatch. With the covid mRNA vaccines these smartwatches have been pretty useful directly after you get the shot because they can fuck with your ticker for a few days and it's good to keep an eye on 'er.

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Junior_Interview5711 t1_itejy9a wrote

Don't promote this

The average parent will start buying apple watches for their 6 year old

And might figure out a way to force cities to hand them out for free

Then apple starts to increase the already high price

Natural selection does suck

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Algae-Ok t1_itekd9k wrote

I discovered that I had Afib with my Apple Watch this year and I am only 30

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DevAnalyzeOperate t1_itekycs wrote

The Apple Watch can hint you to the existence of certain heart issues, it can't tell you that you DON'T have heart issues, it doesn't act as any sort of comprehensive screening.

I know you may know this but I think it's worth saying.

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eist5579 t1_itelfsl wrote

My heart rate felt a little elevated when I had COVID. But also, thinking about if COVID is fucking with my heart gives me anxiety which causes my heart to race which makes me think COVID could be fucking with it which makes it go faster… and repeat. I’m not sure the watch would work very well for me lol

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RunestoneOfUndoing t1_itelgxy wrote

I’ve had 2 friends catch SVT from their Apple Watch. They got appropriate medical treatment and got it fixed

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IndigoMichigan t1_item5yz wrote

I had a Fitbit. This was my exact problem. I thought my heart rate was high, which made me worry about my heart rate, which made my heart rate go up, which made me worry etc.

I got rid of it in the end. I was getting proper panic attacks over it.

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Slammedtgs t1_item88o wrote

My wife was getting abnormal heart rate notifications and about two days later ended up in the hospital with a thyroid that was way over active.

The signs there from the watch was enough to trigger her going to get her labs done (issue was previously under control) which would have shown the issue but they didn’t read them until after she ended up in the ER.

Pretty great technology and cheap insurance too.

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Slammedtgs t1_itemh21 wrote

My wife was having really high heart rate due to an over active thyroid. Watch 3 detected the change in heart rate and I used my 7 to do an EKG which showing the Afib condition. Enough of a benefit to upgrade her 3 based on that alone.

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alex_xxv t1_itemlt4 wrote

I don't want to live longer, but thanks for the sponsored article Apple.

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BisexualSunflowers t1_itemvdv wrote

I have a garmin that alerts me to a high heart rate (+100 bpm) when I’ve been inactive for 5 or more minutes. I have to take it off every single time I go to class or have a meeting. During Covid before I started anxiety meds I had horrible heart palpitations too. Got a 30 day heart monitor that came back with nothing luckily.

I still get the high heart rate alerts all the time though so maybe I need to ask for an increase in my (SSRI) dose.

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ChosenBrad22 t1_itemztc wrote

I feel like I would immediately notice if I was chillin and my heart was pumping over 120+ a minute.

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afanoftrees t1_iten3ai wrote

Yea there’s definitely some anxiety that can come into play with it which can make everything elevate but if you just wear and don’t look it at it you can get some pretty normal readings

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RoboKD t1_iteo2z3 wrote

It does, but if it comes back as something irregular, you really should get it checked. Although I think all mine were not really accurate, but I have an odd issue.

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hatman_v4 t1_iteoe4j wrote

My heart rate went to 130 while i was bedridden for days with covid. Covid was the worst sickness I've ever had. Fever went to 104, I couldn't breathe, my body hurt agonizingly all over. It felt like the pain was in my bones. I wanted to die.

And I've been sick on and off ever since. It's like it's never fully went away.

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sl0wrx t1_iteorsv wrote

Yeah I had to stop wearing my fitbit because of my anxiety. I’ve had anxiety my entire life and it would get worse if I looked down and my heart rate was high. It was high because I was anxious and would get higher as I got more anxious looking at it 😅

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NearlyNakedNick t1_itesiu0 wrote

Yeah, not all the time tho. When I have emotional flashbacks I may not even notice my thinking and behavior has shifted, but my heart rate always jumps up to 120-145. Now I've trained myself to check my heart rate when I'm not sure if I'm thinking straight. If my heart rate is up to that range I know I'm likely having a flashback and I need to find a way to ground myself and avoid making any decisions.

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smthngwyrd t1_itesnn9 wrote

A family member is doing an Apple Watch study through Yale or Cornell I think. He had to pay like $50 for the watch and taxes. They look at his heart date for several years.

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xdaemonisx t1_iteum9t wrote

My cardiologist specifically recommended an Apple Watch. I’ve been happy with it.

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dlittlebear t1_itevrzc wrote

I get palpations from time to time and used the data to show a new dr and he gave me something that might help and told me if it’s palpating once every other beat I should take.

I only got the watch due to palpations.

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foundafreeusername t1_itex1e5 wrote

Interesting. A lot of cardiologists don't seem to be a fan of this technology. Supposedly because it has a lot of false positives sending people to the doctor that don't have any issues.

Maybe it improved by now

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xdaemonisx t1_itey631 wrote

He told me it was a lot less expensive than the Zio patch or Holter monitor and good enough to use to see if my SVT gets worse. When I had to wear those devices for 3 weeks (first the Holter monitor, then they switched to the Zio patch because it was more discreet) it was like, $1,500 I had to pay. The watch was only $300 and I can show him at my appointments. The watch could not diagnose me, and I have no idea what I’m looking for, but it seems to be worth it.

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[deleted] t1_iteyqzc wrote

Do all apple watches check this or have these capabilities or is o my internet the newest model?

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rollingthestoned t1_itf150p wrote

It caught my first episode of atrial fibrillation. Scary but treatable. And I was able to detect the 2nd one before it caught it but the ECG app picked it up after I noticed the symptoms. Just be careful not to obsess on it. It’s easy to add to health anxiety with all the info at our fingertips.

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mansta330 t1_itf37pj wrote

I have several chronic autoimmune conditions, and my Apple Watch has saved my butt on multiple occasions because it passively tracks so many things that I can use as a data set when my health goes sideways. For example, I was able to figure out that I had chronic sinus tachycardia because it was recording my heart rate and showing it sitting above 100 even when I was sitting at my desk or walking down the hall to the bathroom. It was also able to show my episodes of vasovagal syncope (Tl;dr: your heart rate going from 140 to 40 in 6 seconds makes you almost pass out) in a way that I could easily show my doctor to get more thorough tests and a beta blocker.

Now, with the new sleep tracking, I’ve realized that my respiratory rate while I’m sleeping is extremely slow (like not unusual to be 8 breaths a minute) and my deep sleep is… well less than 10 minutes is not unusual for me. So I’m in the process of figuring out whether all of that is due to sleep apnea, or it yet another dysautonomia condition we need to tackle.

I mean seriously, this tiny wrist computer is about as close as I can get to a scanner from Star Trek, and I genuinely don’t know how I would possibly keep track of all of my oddities without it.

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Junior_Interview5711 t1_itf75b9 wrote

Nah

Think about it, apple has a huge market

But it needs more sales, because it has a 2 trillion "market cap"(not really the right phrase, but the average person understands that, kinda) so it develops a watch that did save a person's life, but the watch is 600 bucks or you can buy a very comprebale one for 100-200, or apples, that only works with a 1200 dollar phone, and they put out stories that promote the life saving act, get a bunch of people to start pressuring congress to buy the watches, to "save their lives"

How much do you think they would sell the government the watches for

The company hit a ceiling, in the sales sense, they can only sell stuff to current customers, but in order for the stock to move, they need new ones, 1 customer switching to Apple ain't shit, but a whole government buying them for the public

That's a game changer

I'm fully aware my opinion reveals my tin foil hat

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jhaluska t1_itf9vov wrote

It's normal for your heart to slow when sleeping, but if it's going really low you might not be getting enough blood flow / oxygen at night. If you don't wake up rested, or have issues exercising I would worry. Otherwise bring it up to your doctor at your next checkup.

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v-1-6-e t1_itfc2zp wrote

Apple's ECG is as good as any other premium heart rate monitor on smart watches. Since it's a single lead ECG it doesn't add much value to the heart rate monitor. This is just another advetorial

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AustrianReaper t1_itfc7tl wrote

Regarding your last point: If you feel fine with your current ssri dosage please don't increase it just because of heart rate spikes - they aren't antiarrhythmic and if you take more ssris despite feeling subjectively fine all you're doing is treating numbers, not yourself.

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adfthgchjg t1_itfe6bo wrote

Yes, but there’s no need to ever do that. Atrial fibrillation traces are the easiest EKG abnormality to read for the layman, and Kardia will automatically flag afib traces.

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mansta330 t1_itff7x8 wrote

Yeah, honestly I probably need another, more thorough sleep study. While my husband says I occasionally snore a little, he hasn’t seen me stop breathing or anything like that. He does say I “whimper” in my sleep though. We’d originally chalked it up to pain (psoriatic spondylitis) but now I’m wondering if it’s related to this breathing thing. My last sleep study I was told “you sleep remarkably well for everything you have going on”, which, gee thanks that doesn’t fix anything guys. 🙄

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leemax2022 t1_itfjezi wrote

seeing this advert all over reddit. apple has reached new lows

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realmastodon2 t1_itfny50 wrote

Even a lot of the accounts saying this watch Insert brand are selling smoke. Apps which track your heart rate aren't fully vetted by the medical community and as such they give out a lot of false readings. An EKG machine or modified heart rate app set up by a medical team are better indicators.

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jabberwockgee t1_itfw54a wrote

I had pneumonia when I was younger and my parents took me to the hospital when I couldn't eat breakfast because my throat hurt too much. I don't think anyone 'knows' they have pneumonia because their throat hurts.

Then I had 'walking pneumonia' 4 or 5 years later and stayed home sick. My parents took me to the doctor that night and he said it was pneumonia but I was already recovering on my own.

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ButtBlock t1_itfwc3v wrote

Yeah man. I felt fine until the day I realized I couldn’t climb a flight of stairs without stopping on the middle landing. As a previously healthy teenager. I was like… hmmm this is kind of fucked.

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FalconBurcham t1_itfx9h4 wrote

Found my people. Haha Does Fitbit have the ability to turn off alerts? I turned off all heart rate alerts on my Apple Watch. I use the Zones app to track my intentional cardio sessions (it will nudge me if my heart rate is too high while exercising), but that’s it.

I manually checked my heart rate once while at the doctor’s office (I have serious health anxiety), and it was 135. My resting average at the end of the day is normally around 55. 65 if I’ve been busy. 75ish if it’s been stressful. But those big bumps of 135ish stress don’t give me useful info, so I keep alerts off. It all averages out at the end of the day. 🤷‍♀️

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ukezi t1_itfye36 wrote

Exactly, it can detect the pulse, so it can detect arrhythmia and every thing that can detect the pulse should be able to do that. For more interesting results, like actual ECG readings they just don't have the sensors.

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Abedeus t1_itfyuor wrote

I personally had my smartwatch help me catch an issue with my new hypertension meds, when I was feeling lightheaded and decided to check my pulse. It was borderline 50, when normally it would be 70-80. At times dipping below.

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moofunk t1_itfz5tw wrote

> Supposedly because it has a lot of false positives sending people to the doctor that don't have any issues.

Worse than that, it shows an actual issue of sorts, but puts the doctor in a position for whether treatment should be done or not, because the patient may be better off with no treatment, because they are young and otherwise healthy.

The patient ends up demanding treatment (surgery) and ends up with a worse quality of life than before, or in very unfortunate cases, end up dying from complications.

What the watch is really doing, is gather a lot of data from mostly healthy, younger people, that don't suffer heart issues that require treatment, i.e. people that such data is normally not gathered data from, because they never needed to.

I don't think we can see the true benefit of the watch until 25 years from now, when we can start mapping out how the heart and cardiovascular system deteriorates as you age and what causes increased deterioration.

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HaciMo38 t1_itg0sfs wrote

I bought my dad a series 6 in 2020 and within 2 weeks the watch started to send notifications about "unusual heartbeat rhythm" (I don't remember the exact wording).

My dad went to a cardiologist and the doc told him he had atrial flutter. We had absolutely no idea.
Amazing piece of tech for sure.

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Glitchbot t1_itg2sm7 wrote

I had a Samsung Galaxy Active 3 that kept saying I was in AFib after I exercised. Went to a cardiologist and they hooked me up to a monitor for 4 weeks. Even though the watch detectected AFib 3 more times, the real heart monitor didn't see anything like that. Wondering what the real false positive rate is on these things. Also, would be interesting to compare between manufacturers.

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FALCON_FACT_MAN t1_itg8m4x wrote

Interestingly, the New Zealand Falcon (Falco novaeseelandiae) is immune to all respiratory illnesses and blood disorders. Researchers confirmed this is due to the falcon's diet of possums and salmon, which are native to New Zealand. Even more astounding, it's wingspan ranges from 63 cm (25 in) and 98 cm (39 in) and its weight rarely exceeds 450 g (16 oz).

The mysteries of the falcon endure for eternity in our hearts and minds

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HerbHurtHoover t1_itgcnqj wrote

Am i the only one who feels like we are being drip justifications to allow apple to spy on our health data?

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CaptainUSA76 t1_itgf3e7 wrote

I wish I could get one. Alas money is everything.

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Substantial_City4618 t1_itgj562 wrote

I had a consistent high rate after a Covid shot. I kinda freaked, but apparently my fever caused my heart to pump faster to spread heat to of your extremities like a radiator.

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hahzbsjxbsbshfjcjcj t1_itgmnbj wrote

SSRI’s are junk I would get off of them if you don’t need them day to day. They are fine for short term relief in a stressful period of life, death in the family, divorce, break up etc. but they don’t need to be taken long term and it’s just another one of the pharmaceuticals that are wildly over prescribed in America.

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Jorycle t1_itgqc3d wrote

I had a fitbit and every day it thought I was doing intense cardio from 8-3, calculating my day's caloric expenditure as something like 3000. Sorry fitbit, just a typical day in the office as a dude with high anxiety.

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Ronux t1_itgrqmm wrote

I go out of my way to remove my Garmin every time I smoke weed. For whatever reason watching my heart rate go up on my watch while high makes my anxiety go into overload.

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NoTime4LuvDrJones t1_ithruur wrote

From webmd, seems like it takes longer for bacteria to cause it. Though they also lost other things that can cause it like viruses, mold. Not sure if those are shorter times to cause it. Does say fall is the season for walking pneumonia

> Symptoms generally start 15 to 25 days after you’re exposed to mycoplasma and slowly get worse over 2 to 4 days.

https://www.webmd.com/lung/walking-pneumonia

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algiuxass t1_ithvepm wrote

On yeah, forgot the important part, my mom contacted someone with COVID about two weeks ago, then I did have a fever and got better quickly with minor symptoms. Yeah, I might have pneumonia.

Thank you, I'll drink tons of water and maybe oximeter tomorrow morning.

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somenewguy12345 t1_ithyyn5 wrote

meanwhile docs: STOP CHECKING YOUR HR ITS ANXETY THROW IT AWAY

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xdaemonisx t1_iti34l5 wrote

It’s not a unique technology, but the main age group a cardiologist sees aren’t going to be the most tech savvy people.

I work in mobile phones, and Apple phones are by far the easiest to set up and use without fear of messing something up super terribly. The app for the watch and the health app come preinstalled on iPhones so you do not need to explain how to log in/make an Apple ID, go to the App Store, and download another app for the watch to work.

I can’t tell you how many people I help set up their hearing aids, FitBits, Garmins, and even the car radio Bluetooth. I can imagine the doctor was probably getting the same, and that isn’t his job. The Apple Watches are probably the easiest for him and his patients to use and understand without much set-up. I know it’s the easiest thing for me to set up since there’s barely anything to do other than pair them.

I barely had to do anything for the watch to take my SPO2, heart rate, and respirations per minute. It just does. I had a Samsung phone and watch before the recommendation and it would always fight with me on doing these things. It was time for a phone upgrade anyway and my Samsung watch battery was going.

He could also be sponsored, which I hope he’s getting a nice kickback if that’s the case. It worked on me, lol.

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TommyTuttle t1_itijz0x wrote

Talk to your landlord about why the rent is so damn high. That’s where your money is going. A $400 watch is indeed a luxury item but when rent is $2000 a month you start to wonder why a measly $400 should even matter anymore 💁‍♂️

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kjartanbj t1_itinrkz wrote

And that works.. I felt the symptons and checked with the app and it confirmed it for me, I knew how it felt because I've had it before, got it confirmed at the hospital and got it fixed

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windyorbits t1_itio8be wrote

Idk about everyone else but as an American, I’ll just be sitting or laying down and all of a sudden I’m like “oh shit, my heart is racing and my chest/neck areas feel a bit weird. Yes something is indeed wrong . . . Welp, it’s gone for now and I’m not dead, no need to get in debt by asking a person with a medical degree what might be the issue with my crazy fast blood pumper.

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DanielPhermous t1_itiurvd wrote

> Apps which track your heart rate aren't fully vetted by the medical community and as such they give out a lot of false readings.

The Apple Watch ECG and irregular rhythm notifications are approved by the FDA.

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LucidLethargy t1_ittdhix wrote

This is so weird... Apple phones are easier to set up? I've used both, and this is a silly thing to say. Do you mean they are the easiest to migrate to from other Apple phones? That's a two way street.

Samsung pre-installs their apps as well (I actually dislike that, for what it's worth). They also have a good deal more health features than Apple, were you aware of that? Ever try to get your blood pressure on an apple watch? You can't. Samsung watches also take readings automatically, just like Apple.

My grandmother got an iPhone recommendation for her hearing aid. She HATED it. She, wanted her old Android back. I helped her with her iPhone, and I agreed with her frustrations. Modern iPhone's are a mess, they aren't simple like used to be.

In the end, they're all shit, though. Apple is not innovating, and neither is Android. Stop trying to sell people on one brand.

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