I watch causing Wrist and arm numbing and pain?

I am having the same experience. I purchased the Apple Watch Sport (antique white) on December 23. After only wearing it for about half an hour or less I notice a deep tingling and then a slight pain in my arm. I thought I was crazy. I switch to my right arm and within minutes the same thing started to happened. The longer I wear it the higher the tingling and pain/discomfort goes up my arm, all the way to my shoulders and neck. I loosened the band....no change. I stopped wearing it for 4 days, put it back on today and it starts all over again. I found your post after searching the web to see what I could find and if anyone else is experiencing the same thing. I plan on retuning the watch. Nothing I've done stops the sensation. I'm really disappointed because I LOVE the watch and I am a loyal user of many Apply products, I love the company and the brand. I don't know what could be causing this. I've tried to force myself to wear the watch all day and HOPE that I don't feel anything because I want to keep it so badly, but I can't ignore the pain/discomfort. I just wanted to respond to your post to let you know that you aren't the only one.

It is obvious you don't understand the realm of particle duality and sub-atomic particles. My Sony watch even came with a warning stating that it emits radiation and could possibly harm you, actual verbiage,

"Radio Frequency Exposure: Your transmitting device is a radio transmitter and receiver. When in operation, it communicates with a transmitting equipped mobile device by receiving and transmitting radio frequency (RF) electromagnetic fields (microwaves) in the frequency range 2400 to 2500 MHz. These transmissions have been known to cause health issues in certain individuals."

So keep believing that its not the device causing the issues people are having. Your body may react differently, but not everyone is the same.

BSLTRL wrote:

So keep believing that its not the device causing the issues people are having. Your body may react differently, but not everyone is the same.

No one has said that it's not the device. What we have said it isn't from radio frequency radiation.

I'm amazed that no one has tried the obvious test. Put the watch in Airplane mode. That will turn off all radios. Do the symptoms go away?

BSLTRL wrote:

It is obvious you don't understand the realm of particle duality and sub-atomic particles.

So keep believing that its not the device causing the issues people are having. Your body may react differently, but not everyone is the same.

Are you serious?

I don't know what you've been smoking, but you really need to reconsider your life choices, and stop skimming science articles in the news and picking out random phrases you think you can put to good use when trolling Internet forums.

I have been experiencing the same thing. I am a physician assistant and I have a numb/tingling sensation in my left arm, mostly in my upper arm, biceps area, it can be very painful. didn't start until I got my watch. I've loosened up, tried switching hands, but I'm right handed and I lose a lot of the function when i try and write on it or use it with my non dominant hand. No carpal tunnel type pain in my wrist or fingers.

No. When I noticed there was something going on I began to make changes. For now I'm switching to the other arm to see if there is any correlation. I'm just taking notes on what I'm doing and any symptoms that I have. As there have been no studies on this I have to follow my own advice and stop doing something that hurts me

An engineer you may be, good for you, still you are speaking to something you know nothing about, this being the body. Pain receptors transmit signals to neurons in the brain by polarizing and firing a signal across a synapse. Thats how you feel pain! Pain doesn't happen without the appropriate polarization of the pain receptor. The entire human body holds its own electrical conduction capabilities, different entities such as EM waves and chemical changes can change the conduction threshold. Why is this so difficult for you to understand?

BSLTRL wrote:

Your welcome, I hope it is of entertainment to you to think that other peoples issues are a joke.

Do you actually have an Apple watch, or are you just trolling?

If you do have one, have you tried enabling Airplane mode, as I suggested? Or are you afraid to, because you might discover that you are wrong?

I think that it is possibly too tight - that seems like the logical reason to me. I thought at first I needed it tighter for the heart rate etc to work. I took it out a notch and everything works and it is no longer feeling tight.

Hope you get it resolved - it is so cool!!

BSLTRL wrote:

Your welcome, I hope it is of entertainment to you to think that other peoples issues are a joke.

It wasn't other people's issues that amused me, it was your nonsensical word salad of an attempt to explain science (or what you think is science).

I have sympathy for people who are in pain. I have no patience, however, for people who, rather that do sensible, logical things to deal with their pain or illness, instead, latch on to nonsense and won't let go, despite the fact that it means they will continue to be in pain. And, by perpetuating such nonsense, you do them a grave disservice.

I got the Apple watch for Christmas. I have tried wearing after market SS bands and the sport band. I noticed a pain in my wrist and arm after wearing the Apple watch for a while. I read a lot of these posts and decided to do my own troubleshooting. Once my arm and wrist felt normal again, I put the sport band on somewhat loosely. I kept the power off to the watch and wore it all day with no pain or irritation so I know the pain didn't come from the way I was wearing it. I then turned the watch on to see how I reacted to that. My wrist and arm started to feel irritated and a little sore soon after. I also had the heart rate monitor turned off so that should not have been the problem. At this point I do not know if it is the heat that the watch puts off or something else that the watch puts out that causes some of us to feel wrist and arm pain from wearing the Apple Watch. I really liked the watch and I really wanted to keep it but it looks like I am going to have to return it 😢 My hope is that others will read my post and try their own troubleshooting to see if it is the way we are wearing the watch like others suggest or if it has to do with something that happens to us when the watch is turned on.

hahutch29302 wrote:

I got the Apple watch for Christmas. I have tried wearing after market SS bands and the sport band. I noticed a pain in my wrist and arm after wearing the Apple watch for a while. I read a lot of these posts and decided to do my own troubleshooting. Once my arm and wrist felt normal again, I put the sport band on somewhat loosely. I kept the power off to the watch and wore it all day with no pain or irritation so I know the pain didn't come from the way I was wearing it. I then turned the watch on to see how I reacted to that. My wrist and arm started to feel irritated and a little sore soon after. I also had the heart rate monitor turned off so that should not have been the problem. At this point I do not know if it is the heat that the watch puts off or something else that the watch puts out that causes some of us to feel wrist and arm pain from wearing the Apple Watch. I really liked the watch and I really wanted to keep it but it looks like I am going to have to return it 😢 My hope is that others will read my post and try their own troubleshooting to see if it is the way we are wearing the watch like others suggest or if it has to do with something that happens to us when the watch is turned on.

I am so happy for you my friend. I have a 30 dollars invicta watch and I like it. But if I had any kind of discomfort, I would return it and enjoy life. You paid way more then that and your reaction is the one I would expect from an adult - NO B S no Whining - return and enjoy life.

No, I do not have an Apple Watch, in fact I have a Sony SmartWatch, which as I noticed was causing similar issues as the Apple has many other individuals, which theorizes a problem with the technology, for some people. This is why I did research online and found that similar things are happening with a gamut of other watches that perform the same functions. I stated that it was the technology on this support blog, not that it was the Apple watch alone.

You are an engineer and I a physicist. Science has changed since the first scientific revolution, classical physics (newtonian physics) has been obsolete since the double-slit experiment. The logical quarry of science is not so logical any longer. The specified patterns we once believed to be the hear all-say all in science has been disproven to be the way our world truly is. People have a difficult time fathoming this and thats why it is wished and believed to be "science fiction" when in all reality science has proven to us to be far more complicated than described through Newtonian physics. Take it for what it is, not always does science follow a predictable path.

http://journals.lww.com/psychosomaticmedicine/pages/articleviewer.aspx?year=2005 &issue=03000&article=00010&type=abstract

http://www.jpsychores.com/article/S0022-3999(07)00204-8/abstract

http://www.bmj.com/content/332/7546/886.full

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/bem.20195/abstract;jsessionid=164D06E 2C099BF7F09ED1CD3E23836DD.f01t02

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/electrical-sensitivity-definition-epi demiology-and-management

There are dozens more that I found. If you are really interested I'm sure you can do your own web search. These took me less than 5 minutes.

No, obviously not KiltedTim,

I was just curious to know what studies in particular you referring to when you stated 'The idea that 'emissions' from personal electronic devices can cause symptoms such as those described has been proven to be complete bunk', or whether you were just over generalising without drawing on specifics.