I watch causing Wrist and arm numbing and pain?

I had issues with seria 1 and had to return it but I wear the sera 2 on my right wrist and I am fine with it 🙂 love it!

DuraQ wrote:

Tried the Sport 42" and the regular 38".

The arm that wears the watch starts hurting after a while. `

It appears that some people are sensitive to the convex back of the watch pressing into their wrist. Depending on your particular anatomy, it may press against a nerve. Try moving it up your arm. Being fit has nothing to do with this.

@Apple, if you want to examine this further I can assist and help you with that since I can sense that it is your product that is causing this pain.

Apple is not reading here. Submit feedback using the feedback link:

http://www.apple.com/feedback

This is the second day of wearing my new apple watch. I am having the same experience, tingling, numbing in my hand and upper arm. I wear a watch all the time so am used to them. I do not think its an allergic reaction. It feels more electrical, like it is affecting my biorhythms or something along those lines. I am hoping that my body gets used to the computer on it, because I really like my new apple gadget.

Why is it so difficult for you to understand that you are talking nonsense that you don't understand yourself? It looks like you are parroting some nonsense that you found somewhere on the internet, perhaps from "doctor" Mercola.

Correlation does not equal causation. If you don't have an Apple watch, you have no standing here and nothing to contribute. If you're a physicist, then I'm the King of Scotland.

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“The apple watch simply doesn't agree with a small minority of people and causes aches and pains which can't be properly diagnosed."

Simply not true. You are not qualified to make such a statement and the science certainly doesn’t support your claim. There are NO medical papers that I know of that make such a connection. And other smart watches on the market are constructed basically the same with the same materials.

What Apple made works with about 99.99% of the people that use them. For those that it doesn't they should see a doctor and try to find out which material in the watch, or the way that they are using it, that could be a problem. Garmin uses the same type of battery, Bluetooth, WiFi, GPS and materials as the Apple Watch. So are you saying the WatchOS is the issue?

Nothing changed between the series 1 and 2 that would make any difference. If you are trying to imply that Apple somehow 'fixed' your pain issue you are dreadfully wrong. There continues to be absolutely NO medical evidence that supports your claim. As for the series 3 it has an LTE radio in it and will emit even more electromagnetic waves than either the series 1 or 2.

You said you were a doctor...

Stretchtsp wrote:

And before someone tells me to see a doctor - I am a doctor.

But this proved that to be a lie...

I suspect its from the infrared or maybe the bluetooth?

Either that, or you went to a medical school where they don't actually teach medicine, or basic science.

If you are a physician, you should be well aware that this is pure bunk.

Sure. First of all, I responded, many others did, That his response was inflammatory and plain mean and was meant to insult me, not to offer assistance. To accuse me of not being a real doctor or going to medical school because I experienced the exact same sensation that everybody in this post is inquiring about? So let’s take the medical out of it and try to figure out why the heck this watch continues to cause problems on many people regardless of position and band. Isn’t the point of a support forum to support each other and try to figure out what’s going on? All I seem to see our insults for anybody that may try to think outside the box because there’s no definitive solution being presented - You won’t have to worry about me because I’m going to un-follow this thread as it poses absolutely no solution, and does not support us customers that are having a legitimate issue.

No, this is a user-to-user technical support forum.

Have you done any research on Infrared, WiFi and Bluetooth? Talked to any engineers about it? Looked at any studies? Have you consulted the AMA or any of their available resources? Do you have any idea of what non-ionizing radiation is?

Thank you for your reply. I will reach out directly to Apple then. With all due respect, you do not know my background or what I’ve researched or not. But I don’t really see how that is relevant here.Have you ever Experienced what most in the thread have? The constant pain and irritation when wearing the watch? Obviously, it is a problem. And I have yet to see an answer that has applied it to everybody with this problem. So maybe people are trying to think outside of the box. Maybe it opens up discussion.And I do not feel, that, when I contribute to a thread to share my experience, that it gives someone the right to attack my character. (Not you specifically). I can only imagine if I spoke to a patient like that when they approached me with a problem that “didn’t fit the criteria”. I’m signing off this thread and thank you to any of you that have posted helpful comments I appreciate it. If I learn anything that helps those who have been attacked for attempting to reason out possible reasons for the pain.

I'm now on my second day of wearing my Watch, and I'm not noticing anything different, other than that I have something on my wrist (I previously went 11 years without wearing a watch). The only really different thing is the unobtrusive light penetration from the sensors (which are measuring heart rate and detecting that the Watch is on a wrist in the first place) and the material of the Watch. If you're finding tingling, etc., it may be that the Watch is too tight, or you're having some manner of reaction that you weren't previously aware you'd have.

If you're able, I'd just check in with your doctor on your next visit and do a test for allergies.

I am actually a hand surgeon, and while I can't diagnose you for sure via text, numbness and tingling is the main symptom of carpal tunnel, which is caused by compression of a nerve in your wrist. The symptoms can often be reproduced by pressing on the inside of your wrist for a while- you start the get the feeling of your "circulation being cut off". If that is what you're feeling, it could be that your watch is too tight (though honestly I have never heard of a watch being so tight it causes carpal tunnel). Like someone else said, it could also just be that you are using your arm differently now (to hold it up and look at the watch). I can't really explain why a watch would cause that, but, if it persists, I would agree with getting it checked out.