Apple Watch Great for me

[keeps]

After my last heart episode i brought myself a new Apple watch last year

I would highly recommend great for monitoring exercise ( Will nag you if your not doing enough ) lol

Also the heart monitor function is great for me and already has proved its worth when it alarmed on low BPM .

I went to the doctors and showed him read outs as was regularly low and after testing me he said i needed some adjustments to my meds.

The watch also can now do a ECG ( I would guess this function is to help when visting your doctor and to show him results on your read out )

Each day it shows a chart you can acsess through i phone as a graph ie today

For me max was 94BPM Low 42BPM Resting rate of 44BPM Walking average 63BPM

Walked only 1.8 miles 4,461 ( Watch was not happy with that lol )

Great as a fitness tool IMO

[DWT1]

My cardiac consultant recommended Apple Watch to me and cardiac nurse told me the ECG function was being evaluated by NHS with a view to issuing to some patients as self monitoring devices.

Find mine really useful.

[Zooy]

I agree completely. I upgraded to the latest watch after being diagnosed with a prolapsed mitral valve at the start of the year. The data showed to the day when my heart rate radically changed - fascinating stuff.

The ECG function currently doesn’t work in the UK although rumours suggest it may go on in September. Let’s hope it does.

The other function that’s really great is the falls detection. If you fall and dont respond to the watch it will alert emergency services of your location and will also contact your emergency contacts with the same information. Brilliant stuff.

The new watch alerts to high and low heart rates.

Brilliant for peace of mind.

[Lee180 in reply to Zooy]

Hi it’s now live if you do the latest update 👍🏻

[Zooy in reply to Lee180]

Oh that’s fantastic news. I didn’t know. Thank you so much. Will be updating as soon as I get home!!

[Manhattan1 in reply to Zooy]

my finances ran to a fitbit charge 3 lol.. gives heart rate.. number of steps.. km walked.. fat burned and a few other interesting things... lowest resting HR has been 42.. but concerned with highest HR .. which was 108! after walking less than a hundred yards.. another thing that has me slightly concerned.. when resting HR has a few times seemed to soar from 54 up to 100.. without any exertion.. maybe i shouldn’t check it so often lol

[Peterthompson1969]

Hi the great news is that ecg is now active on the Apple Watch,

[keeps]

Yes i downloaded on mine the other day