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Effie Seiberg Dec 19, 2022

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

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hoa Dec 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 😞

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Effie Seiberg

@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.