Those Medical Smart Watches

[leon]

Hi Guys, just asking, does anyone here own or use one of these smart watches that monitors your heart, pulse and other medical stuff.

If so, what do you use and what would be a very good unit for an old fella like me, I am 75 and reasonable fit for my age.

I have type 2 Diabetes, don't really sleep that well and have the normal aces and pain of the older generation.

Or are these things a waste of time and money

Thank You.

Leon

[alan meehan (Alan)]

hI Leon i dont own a fancy one but do have one from aldi its a bruan seems good and they do help to save lives ,i did read a story in the senior magazine of a jnr doctor who got one for his mum and and made her aware of a impending heart attack and she was taken to hospital and found to have a failing heart so maybe they are good sort of pre warning system ALAN

[NCRAW]

I'm an avid watch wearer and own some mechanical and quartz watches. Since I purchased my Apple iWatch 7 (the gsm version which came handy multiple times), I have rarely wore any other watch. At almost 48, I use it all the time for my gym workouts (I maintain a certain BPM through whole workout including weight lifting), finding my phone , running (even gives me historical route times and personal best for specific routes, notifications and answering calls, weather reports and maps etc. It has all the health functions, from sleep patterns, ecg, blood O2, relaxation exercises, heart rate monitoring. The new ones even do more.

It does sometimes feel your life revolves around it but you can limit it to your liking. I'm gonna beat this one to death for a few more years (it's still super responsive and full day battery) then get a new one.

[leon]

Thank you indeed for your answers, I really don't need it for gym work and that sort of stuff, rather more medical like sleep patterns, heart and blood pressure maybe and things like that.

Leon

[JeniSkunk (Jenifur)]

Originally Posted by leon

Thank you indeed for your answers, I really don't need it for gym work and that sort of stuff, rather more medical like sleep patterns, heart and blood pressure maybe and things like that.

Leon

Evening Leon, I use a Fitbit Charge 6. It's a pretty good fitness tracker, though it doesn't do heart or blood pressure. I do have an Omron Automatic Blood Pressure Monitor HEM-700 for checking my blood pressure and pulse rate.
Pulse rate monitoring when using my exercise bike, and sleep pattern monitoring for my sleep apnoea were the major items I got the Fitbit for.
It can do a fair bit more monitoring as well, including calories burned, sustained effort, and oxygenation monitoring.
The thing that annoys me about it though, is it's tied, extremely heavily, to Google, and you can't use any third party services with it. So basically if you use Apple, then a Fitbit is really not for you. If, like me, you use Android, then it's worth considering.