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Posted on 10/17/2017 4:33:01 PM PDT by Swordmaker
After James Green realized that his heart rate was consistently spiking, he knew something was wrong
Your health tracker may not always be perfect—but for 28-year-old James Green of Brooklyn, New York, receiving a simple alert from his Apple Watch saved his life.
Green tweeted on Friday that HeartWatch, one of the Apple Watch’s health sensors, measured his heart rate at consistently above his resting rate of 54, even though he was just sitting at his desk. Turns out those spikes were signaling a pulmonary embolism, his doctors told him after he made his way to the hospital, where they performed CT scans to reach their diagnosis, The Telegraph reports.
A pulmonary embolism occurs when a clot deep in your vein, most commonly in your leg, travels to your lungs from its original spot, blocking some or even all of your blood supply, according to the American Heart Association. This can prevent vital organs from getting the oxygen and blood they need to properly function, which can be fatal.
Thanks! Also wow! This is so fantastic that you are ok. Humbled to have played a part. Wishing you a rapid recovery & best of future health.
Green, a self-proclaimed “serial health tracker,” has experienced a pulmonary embolism before, meaning he had all the more reason to pay attention to what his heart is doing. While he suffers from generalized anxiety disorder, he told The Telegraph he was experiencing other symptoms during the time he received the heart rate alert, which pushed him to believe that he wasn’t experiencing a panic attack, but rather “something more.”
HeartWatch monitors your heart rate data across four views: Waking, Regular, Workout, and Sleeping. Each view is isolated so you can learn to notice unusual changes in how your heart is beating, according to the app’s official page. (Want to measure your sweat sessions, too? These are the eight best fitness watches to track your workouts.)
After Green’s diagnosis, his doctors performed a couple of ultrasounds and prescribed him blood thinners, which interfere with the proteins in your body responsible for blood clots, working to minimize the damage.
He’s got some stuff in his nose.
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I saw that ironic nose ring. Don't they know that is indicative of someone who can be lead around by a ring through their nose? I would think that would be the LAST image a black man would want to evoke, raising the specter of slavery, wouldn't you?
How long before they are saying Obama Care must pay for iWatches?
In a country with rationed healthcare, he would die while waiting for said care.
Hi Swordmaker, been meaning to thank you for your help with my new laptop wifi issue. Turns out that the wifi disconnects at @11:00pm each night so just have to turn it to off, then on again. Picks up th signal and all is well!
I received a notice from Security Metrics today about the WPA2 security issue and the Krack virus. Did you post anything about it?
Haven’t gotten sold on wearing a computer on my wrist but anyone with heart issues, e.g., anyone over the age of 40yo, could benefit if alerted by the watch to sudden changes in the heart.
Article —> “...they performed CT scans to reach their diagnosis”
Canada, UK, etc —> “Sorry, sir, the earliest we can get you a spot on the CT machine is April 23, 2018. In the meantime, try this red pill.”
My husband could have used that! Had symptoms in his leg but dismissed that it could be a blood clot (because I worry too much and go to extremes when looking up symptoms online!). Five days later he went in to the clinic and discovered that it’s a blood clot in his leg.
Praising God daily that it didn’t move when he was icing and massaging the calf! Exactly what you shouldn’t do with a blood clot.
Oops. Guess I should make an appointment to the doctor's office. Lately I get a pain in my leg, and slap or thump it as well as massaging it. Could be a clot, as it changes location. I do have an Apple Watch and monitor my heart rate, mostly while over-exerting myself so I don't overdo it. Thanks for the info about your husband, it's motivating me to do something.
Been “closing the rings” on my Apple Watch every day this year.
Echocardiogram showed my heart ejection fraction went from 45% (and falling, bad) to 65% (high normal, good) - a notable improvement, likely saving me way more than the cost of the watch.
It’s a ring
If my resting heart rate was 61 versus around 76 I would think something is wrong, and at 46 something normally would be.
But a RHR between 60 and 100 beats per minute is considered normal for adults, though for an Italian biker it was 25, while an RHR between 81 and 90 doubled the chance of death, while an RHR higher than 90 tripled it. https://www.health.harvard.edu/blog/resting-heart-rate-can-reflect-current-future-health-201606179806
Yes! Get it checked out. The first sign for him was a sudden intense pain that caused his leg to give out. He’s a barrel chested strong guy who can endure much pain. Happened right when he got up in the morning then a few more times with constant deep pain in between. He is self employed as a carpenter (plus coaches wrestling at local community college) so he can’t take time off.
I convinced him to go to a physical therapy/chiropractic clinic that uses a functional movement screening then active release treatment since he was adamant that it wasn’t a clot. They treated it as a muscular issue twice, then said go see the doc, what we are doing should be helping and it’s not. He of course worked all day then went to urgent care at night. Again, am humbly grateful that God protected him.
Thanks, will do. I sometimes get those sharp pains in my leg and have to sit down, slap my leg a few times while resting. Wife told me to check it out. I'm stubborn, and I guess worried about what it could be. Sucks getting old. Thanks again.
Apple iOS and macOS users with up-to-date systems are good to go. It won’t bother them. See my post on this here:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/3595382/posts?page=41#41
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