Want to monitor heart irregularities. Should I buy smartwatch?

My doctor suggested I get one and I did and it’s helped me to monitor my heart, palpitations and activity

I have a smart watch but found Kardia mobile data is better and incorporates watch info too!

@debroo
Hopefully by now you've had this treated. When my husband had those symptoms it was a blockage in his heart. What they call a widow/widower maker.

They decided I have a ribhead that shifts; I’m doing physical therapy which has helped but I’m scheduled for an ablation and a watchman in January. Hope you both are doing well. Thankyou so much for your response; I appreciated hearing from you……D🌻

I suggest that you have both a smart watch and a Kardia Mobile. My AFib happens at night when I am sleeping. And you won't be using a Kardia if you're asleep. Occasionally I am still in AFib when I wake up, and that's when I use the Kardia to get a tracing for my cardiologist.

I have Android phone, I have a FitBit but it doesn't always catch the afib episodes; nor does it recognize PVC'S or SVE'S . thus I have KardiaMobile 6L that does a much better job with the ability to capture all of the above and to download the results, which I can print to take to my doctor visits.

We have a kardia. One weekend it showed lots of periods of AFib. When we saw the cardiologist he looked at the reports in the app and said none of it was afib. Doesn't speak well for the kardia reliability.

I personally believe that constantly checking every time something is a bit high, would cause stress and bring higher. I believe in daily eliminating triggers, and eating super healthy.

@drrob99 This is unfortunately true in many cases, and it's often 'operator error.' Not for an instant wanting to sound like a victim blamer, I only mean that if one can be sure of one's use of an implement it can often point to mistakes that can be corrected, thus vastly increasing the implement's true utility. Over at afibbers.org we see posts by people who report initially ambiguous or apparently wrong results from a watch or Kardia, only to go on to say they learned more, practiced, and now have more consistent and apparently correct reports from those devices. A Kardia, for example, needs to have clean hands and touch pads, and good contact on both contact pads. But what tekkie50 said makes a lot of sense...three posts back. Have at least two devices that you can use AT THE SAME TIME, or right after one another, so that they both get to sample the cardiac behaviour of interest. From there, you can compare those reports to find commonality, yes, hopefully, but also to help build your confidence and experience so that if you only have one handy you know you can count on it for a veridical assessment.

I have a Android and use Kardia. They both work great!