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I am wondering if anyone uses or has used the features on your Apple Watch to document times when you are not feeling good and abnormal heart Rhythm. I know it is no substitute for real medical care but I feel it helps me see patterns of problems. I recently had full labs and everything looks really good that way but my blood pressure is back up to 152/97. My weight is the problem. I know it. I have a very hard time losing weight. My heart rate drops in the low 40’s. Tell me if you use your watch at all as a tool to help you monitor your situation.
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Thank you. My cardiologist is not a fan of Apple Watch ECG but when I sent him the PDF he suddenly wanted to order some tests.
Health - David Miller - ECG 2024-05-20 at 12 (Health-David-Miller-ECG-2024-05-20-at-12.34.pdf)
Hello @wyomingmiller208, I combined your discussion with an existing discussion titled, "Smart watch to monitor heart" - https://connect.mayoclinic.org/discussion/apple-watch/.
Here you can meet the many members discussing smart watch devices that they use to monitor their heart rhythms, including the Apple Watch.
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I got my iwatch6 at the request of my electrophysiologist who was the consultant to apple for the ECG app on the watch when I was having periods of afib. You can set upper and lower heart rate markers to alert you when your heart rate is above/below these markers for 10 minutes when you are at rest (mine are 120 and 50). You can also see and record a 30 second ECG which is sent to your iphone and saved. These can then be sent to your doctor. I had my cryoablation in 2019 and had no afib episodes until last July when the watch, then my iphone alerted me I was in afib. I never can feel these events happening. I recorded 5 minutes of ECG's and was able to send them to my cardiologist and get them on my chart. Appropriate measures were then taken, echo, zio patch, eliquis. Also have had a high heart beat alert, watching the super bowl. Echo found my dilated ascending aorta @ 3.8mm. Never wore a watch before, it does many other tricks also, hope this helps.