Effie Seiberg

Hypothesis: it's a good idea to have your smartwatch give you alerts for "abnormal heart rate" when you know your heart rate spikes above 100 any time you, say, brush your teeth

Result: this is a great way to get your wrist constantly vibrating, and draining battery power

#MECFS #chronicillness #MyalgicEncephalomyelitis #POTS

Dec 19, 2022 at 5:04amWeb
Show threadmjfgatesDec 19, 2022
@effies This seems less than entirely practical, unless you need to turn your arm into an automatic cat-ear-scritcher.
Show threadCyrusDec 19, 2022
@effies I stopped after a while because it got really annoying.
Show threadMaryGRDec 19, 2022
@effies mine would be buzzing all the time. I'd have to sit still and do nothing then it drops in my boots and the alarm would be going off because its mid 40/50s.My current range is 48-150 🤣🤷‍♀️
Show threadColleenSteckelDec 19, 2022

@effies yep.. we have limited energy in our bodies... that even drains our watch.. ;)

I couldn't tolerate the vibration. Used a beep. Now I hear the warning beep even without my watch when I do the things that set it off..

Show threadMossDec 19, 2022
@effies I feel like this is a step in every pacing journey. Turn on the abnormal heart rate alarm, spend the next few hours cursing a constantly-buzzing wrist till the watch's battery runs out. Stick it on the charger while turning off the alarm in the app. The end.
On the plus side, once I got better at pacing, I didn't need the watch to tell me when my heart was doing abnormal stuff.
Show threadhoaDec 29, 2022
@effies which watch model do you have? Such alerts don't work with my Garmin because it only happens during an 'activity'. Like, when there's enough movement involved and that is captured by the gyroscope. But I often go passed 100bpm doing nothing 😞
Show threadEffie SeibergDec 29, 2022
@hoa I wanna say it's called the Lily? Also Garmin. It's usually when I'm doing a very light activity, like brushing my teeth/washing my face/etc while standing up for five or so minutes. I think my heart rate when sitting/lying is better under control with meds so it doesn't seem to spike in that context for me to test.