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Automatic Irregular Heart Beat Notification (AFib)

muttata
8 months ago

I know that Garmin can notify autmatically when your heart rate is above or below a threshold.  Also, am familiar with the new ECG feature. But, can watches with ECG feature notify you when an irregular heart beat is detected automatically, as a cue to then perform a proper ECG manually?

I have Afib, and I need to have continuous monitoring of abnormal heart beat patterns as an alert. I believe Apple watches do periodically measure heart beat to alert wearers to perform a manual ecg.

Hope this makes sense.

  • 0 7 months ago

    Don't try to self-monitor/manage AFIB. Get a professional on your team. Depending on your severity they will put you on rate-control drugs and blood thinners but ablasion is the only cure. All the drugs suck. But stroke and/or death do more.

    In ADDITION to a doctor's care, you can make adjustments to your diet and other habits. If you have an attack, i was always able to perform the Valsalva Maneuver to pop out of it.

    Link:

    https://www.webmd.com/heart-disease/atrial-fibrillation/valsalva-maneuver

  • 0 7 months ago in reply to entify

    What your doc told you and what I told you are two different worlds:

    I was speaking about Irregular Heart Beat Notification as an „always on“ function wich checks now and then in the background.

    The Doc is speaking about ECG, this is a active feature where you need to get into a special position and do something on purpose, not in the background of your day to day life. If you use ECG, recognising AFib is no big problem. 

    I stick to my opinion: If you have AFib, use a medical device to monitor it, don’t trust on any watches OHR wich tries once in a while to detect something irregular.
    ECG in watches is a mostly useless feature (in my as as someone arriving with the ambulance when *** hits the fan): It only detects AFib and Sinus, but nothing else. If you feel unwell, think your heart is acting up and trust in a watch, things can go down the drain pretty fast.

    The YouTube tutorials how to enable it in Europe are still working, I enabled EKG when I got my F8. Used a combination of desktop software and iPhone because GPS spoofing on iOS is easier that way.

  • 0 7 months ago in reply to BeneGi

    I am not sure who you are arguing with or rebutting here.

  • 0 7 months ago in reply to 510118

    Yeah. Understood. Am on the relevant meds until I see cardiologist. Has definitely helped with bp

  • 0 7 months ago in reply to muttata

    Yeah. I hope they introduce it because it could help save lives 

  • 0 7 months ago

    Being an advocate of my own health requires having an arsenal of tools at my disposal. Like you most people don't recognise Afib unless it obvious, and a lack of a warning system means they may drop dead. Basic monitoring for ECG, or hrt rate, hrv, bp etc all all useful feedback.