I watch causing Wrist and arm numbing and pain?

JimmyCMPIT wrote:

Yes, and WebMD is the new New England Journal of Medicine.

Thankfully now we no longer need medical professionals, we have access to published medical advice from Chiropractors and tin-foil hat conspiracy theorists that does not have confirmed by a review from trained medical experts throughout a network of hospitals or medial research facilities.

Or you can just come here and one of our volunteer shaman will provide you with a rant that is an undisputed confirmation of your own conclusions.

Very well said!

Matt_from_Stvl wrote:

Again, I'm 39. I've worn a hundred different watches of all shapes, sizes and brands. I know what I'm doing when I strap a watch to my wrist.

Without a shadow of a doubt, it was 100% the Apple Watch. Lol.

I'm twice your age, so clearly I know a lot more than you do. When I have a peersistent pain I see a doctor. I know many people don't believe it, but doctors actually know a lot more than you do.

Lawrence Finch wrote:

Matt_from_Stvl wrote:

Again, I'm 39. I've worn a hundred different watches of all shapes, sizes and brands. I know what I'm doing when I strap a watch to my wrist.

Without a shadow of a doubt, it was 100% the Apple Watch. Lol.

I'm twice your age, so clearly I know a lot more than you do. When I have a peersistent pain I see a doctor. I know many people don't believe it, but doctors actually know a lot more than you do.

Disagreed:

My Father-In-Law is a distinguished medical professional from one of the most respected hospitals in NYC, but if I didn't install TeamViewer on his Mac I would spend hours deciphering such technical mysteries as "where is my googles?" and "how do I get my gmail?"

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JimmyCMPIT wrote:

Lawrence Finch wrote:

Matt_from_Stvl wrote:

Again, I'm 39. I've worn a hundred different watches of all shapes, sizes and brands. I know what I'm doing when I strap a watch to my wrist.

Without a shadow of a doubt, it was 100% the Apple Watch. Lol.

I'm twice your age, so clearly I know a lot more than you do. When I have a peersistent pain I see a doctor. I know many people don't believe it, but doctors actually know a lot more than you do.

Disagreed:

My Father-In-Law is a distinguished medical professional from one of the most respected hospitals in NYC, but if I didn't install TeamViewer on his Mac I would spend hours deciphering such technical mysteries as "where is my googles?" and "how do I get my gmail?"

😉

😁😁 TeamViewer has saved me multiple times trying to decipher what my father did on his PC. He is 86, lives in Mississippi, and was a design engineer for a clock manufacturing company. However, with macular degeneration combined with his age and not getting a lot of training in computers before his retirement, I've tried to teach him on the fly so to speak, and it has been a treat. How many times I've had to log in and "fix" stuff.

My father in law is still amazed I can remote into his system even though I have done it repeatedly. However if his connection goes out I can spend two hours with him at the minimum trying to identify what cables go where.

Did you ever figure this out? I am having the *exact* same experience and I'm puzzled as to why

I'm not sensitive to EMR - that I know of - and the strap isn't too tight

After using my watch 5am-10pm each day, every day for the first month I began noticing tingling in my fingers and then my arm would "fall asleep" until I shook it out

So I stopped wearing the watch and the problem went away

Now I only wear it to work out and even then the tingling will commence until the watch is removed

Very disappointed because I was loving the watch otherwise

Any idea how widespread this phenomenon is and why it's happening?

Bob

Bob365 wrote:

Any idea how widespread this phenomenon is and why it's happening?

What did your doctor say? IANAD, but that is a symptom of carpal tunnel syndrome, which can be caused by repetitive stress activity (such as typing on a keyboard), or even just picking up your arm and bending your wrist to look at your watch. With a smart watch you tend to look at it much more frequently, and for longer periods of time than with a conventional watch. But you really need a doctor's examination and opinion.

I have been wearing my Apple Watch daily for nearly 2 years now and on rare occasions I have experienced this. I change my watchband every day and I put this down to putting on too tightly or a slightly different position on my wrist. It might even be psychosomatic or caused by looking at watch every 10 seconds. I know that the first time I wore my watch on my right wrist instead of left and the call came in I jumped out of my skin. Hey I’ve even experienced the haptic touch when not wearing my watch, that’s an interesting experience. Good to see you have checked with your doctor and no problem there.

See your doctor. If wearing a watch, any watch, causes that kind of pain, you have a medical problem that needs to be looked at.

Don't make it so tight.

In which case you are either having an allergic reaction to something in the watch or the band, or you need to seek the advice of a different kind of doctor.

g_shettler wrote:

like it is affecting my biorhythms or something along those lines.

There is no such thing. Go see a doctor.

Um... no. The heart rate sensor is optical. That means it uses light. If light is causing you a problem, then you have bigger issues than your watch.