Was planning to give to her solely for health tracking options. She’s not too great with technology and eyesight ain’t the greatest to use text typing on watch to respond to people. Also doesn’t quite workout much so don’t really know if step tracking is much useful even. What the watch would do primarily would be sleep tracking and heart rate monitoring. A friend of mine suggested to get a yearly heart checkup (ECG, tmt, etc) instead of investing in the watch since it’s anyways not a medical grade thing and I am skeptical now about how to go about it. Anyone with suggestions? Btw planning a 41mm Series 8 in case if that’s important.
I can see you’re asking a lot of good questions and i get the feeling you’re leaning away from getting the smart watch in favour of an annual check up.
What i would say is if she’s recently been diagnosed with anything which could be monitored vaguely by using the watch, it cant hurt to get it, even if its YOU who holds the data on your phone and all she has to do is wear it and recharge it.
Im in my 30s and was diagnosed with a non life threatening thyroid disease that intermittently makes me feel bad in many different ways. Some days i get light headed, nauseous, emotional and brain foggy and its hard to tell of its because of my thyroid playing up or of its because i haven’t had enough water and food. I dont yet have an apple watch (currently using garmin) and i use the various heart and oxygen data to help me work out whether my issues are because i forgot to eat properly or if my thyroid is going haywire.
It helps me tuck away my hypochondriac tendencies when i can see that my body isn’t doing anything unusual, but if my pulse ox or heart rate does change, it will prompt me to visit my doctor to get my bloods and medications updated.
The thing is that I asked a friend of mine in med school and she was the one who suggested that an apple or any other watch should not be a substitute for medical heal checkup and a real ecg, eco and tmt are always better than relying on fitness trackers. So I was wondering whether to get it or not…
Yeah i wouldn’t rely on a watch alone, i still go in for annual tests. Doesn’t mean its useless though.