Ready
Thinks s/he gets paid by the post
I woke up at 4am this morning with a rapid heartbeat that felt really weird. it was not only beating hard but irregularly. I lied in bed for about 10 minutes to see if it would go away, but it wouldn’t.
I put on my Apple Watch and ran an ECG and it immediately came up as AFIB. I’ve run the test many times before on my watch and never had an AFIB alert. So I kept running the test every ten minutes or so, and it kept coming back with AFIB and in some cases a high heart beat (up to 122 bpm).
I called a doctor friend of mine and he said to go to the ER right away. Of course by the time I got there the AFIB had stopped. But I gave the doctor all of the charts produced by my watch and he confirmed it was definitely AFIB. They admitted me and kept me hooked up to a variety of machines for three hours. Everything was normal so they released me and set me up to see a cardiologist next week. Lab results confirmed I did not have a heart attack or stroke…that was a relief.
I’ve never had any heart problems before so this was really scary for me. I’m grateful that my watch was able to confirm I was in AFIB as I might not have gone to the ER if I didn’t have a device to confirm the AFIB condition. For any of you who are on the fence about getting a watch with an ECG function, I think it could be a life saver.
I put on my Apple Watch and ran an ECG and it immediately came up as AFIB. I’ve run the test many times before on my watch and never had an AFIB alert. So I kept running the test every ten minutes or so, and it kept coming back with AFIB and in some cases a high heart beat (up to 122 bpm).
I called a doctor friend of mine and he said to go to the ER right away. Of course by the time I got there the AFIB had stopped. But I gave the doctor all of the charts produced by my watch and he confirmed it was definitely AFIB. They admitted me and kept me hooked up to a variety of machines for three hours. Everything was normal so they released me and set me up to see a cardiologist next week. Lab results confirmed I did not have a heart attack or stroke…that was a relief.
I’ve never had any heart problems before so this was really scary for me. I’m grateful that my watch was able to confirm I was in AFIB as I might not have gone to the ER if I didn’t have a device to confirm the AFIB condition. For any of you who are on the fence about getting a watch with an ECG function, I think it could be a life saver.