Apple Watch causing wrist pain

Div-man,

Your questions deserve to be answered by your physician.

FWIW, I had a some wrist pain after I started using my watch, but I discovered that it was because I was overusing it when I was learning how best to use the features. After I better understood how to use it, I consulted it less, and the pain disappeared.

See your doctor. There are any number of things that could be causing your pain, from wearing it too tight, or too loose, to the bulge on the back irritating a nerve. This is a technical forum. No one here can offer you medical advice beyond a) consult your physician, and b) If it hurts when you do that, then don't do that...

Hi Div-man,

I had never used a smart watch that had a senor for heart rate before I felt the same pain you are describing. At first I thought it was the watch it may be too tight. Then I schedule an appt with apple and the watch was fine. I decided to continue to test it out. I bought a plastic bumper for the watch because I felt like it was the metal against my skin that bothered me. However, after that I felt fine. Only when I wear it too tight I feel that same pain again.

Just another perspective hope this helps.

I have the aluminium silver sport apple watch series 2.

Hi

after wearing a series 3 for a total of 15 hours two days ago I now have a skin burn on my wrist, all thanks to the watch, the size of a 2 cent coin.

apple don’t want to know about the issu, disappointing to say the least.

i returned it to Myer and received a total refund, a owner for 24 hours.

Not very happy with Apple at all, looks like this wrist burning problem isn’t going away, so beware.

I have a similar background, with similar pain. I even switched back to my old watch for a few days and felt almost immediate relief. The pain was so bad in my wrist/hand just now that I took the watch off and decided to search if others were experiencing similar symptoms. I bought my watch from Verizon, so I doubt I can take it back. Thank you for posting your experience. I will not be wearing this watch again, as nice as it has been otherwise.

Hello All,

I just got my AW Series 3 yesterday 1-5-18 and I wore it on and off while setting it up and then the next day 1-6-18 for a few hours as I worked on some assignments. My wrist began to ache and my bones felt the what I think to be, radiation. I'm sensitive to it and I know this because I do not use UV lights when I do my nails in gel because I would get this same feeling on my hands and it was painful. My boyfriend got me the 3 thinking it would be a great fit but my god it hurt so badly that I kept trying to test it and see if it was just me or the watch. I have always worn solve watches my favorite being my 1989 seiko but when I left this one on it hurt so badly I even switched wrists to see if it would cause the same sensation and pain and it did, I only got some calm when I shut it off to see if it was the watch and It felt better, still ached but better. I would describe the pain as slow, tingling and somewhat constructing. It made my fingers were kinda locked up and the ache traveled from my wrist to a bit past my elbow.

This ***** but I'm honestly shocked that this is happening to a lot of folks! 😟 My brother has the AW1 and he has no issues, my boyfriend has the AW2 and no issues from that one either! One quick thing to note is that I tired BOTH AW1, AW2 before I got this one for about a day each and neither one caused me pain nor did I feel these weird vibrations, numbness or actual wrist pain like I felt with the AW3! I had my boyfriend try it out to see if it was just me going nuts or just maybe I wasn't "compatible" with my device as some folks have said on these forums but he started feeling numbness after using it for 10 minutes and he switched it to the other wrist and left it for 5 and it was occurring there too! My brother tried it when I saw him at home about an hour later, I didn't tell him anything other than it was hurting my wrist and I was going to return it and he tried it on, left it for about 2 minutes and felt the "vibration" and slight numbness spread from wrist to forearm. As I am writing this BOTH my wrists still ache and I haven't worn it for a good 6 hours!

My theory is that they made the AW3 so "MIGHTY" with the heartbeat sensor and all that it's too hardcore for some people that, or its a bad sensor or something but either way, I wish there was an ACTUAL response to our issues since I see that a lot of us are feeling the same thing! As for me, I'm going to return it tomorrow and try to find myself an AW2 or AW1! Good Luck guys, Hopefully you guys heal up soon too!!

After wearing my watch for 11 days my wrist/arm started hurting. So I didn’t wear it for a full day. Put is on the next day and the pain started in again. The Washington Post had an article on Electrohypersensitivity: Are ‘WiFi allergies’ a real thing? A quick guide to electromagnetic hypersensitivity. - The Washington Post. I think the watch sitting on my wrist constantly communicating via WiFi to my phone and or cellular connection has caused the pain. I took my watch back! The young man accepting the return said he never heard of the watch causing pain, but was going to look it up.

Now the wrist is pain free most of the time, however, I find that when I use my iPad it begins to tingle and burn. So I try to limit my use.

Hi

This problem with Apple Watches is happening all over the Globe, I am in Australia and I worn the series 3 for a total of fifteen hours and received a skin burn underneath the watch, reported this to Apple both email and phone, they didn’t want to know about the situation.

Returned to store for a full refun, never to purchase another.

I find this situation dreadful apple is still selling this dangerous watch and not telling of the problems customers are experiencin, its about time they are held responsible.

Look at google for the amount of customers affected.

Hope me this helps and is a warning to all.

David.

There are absolutely no scientifically accepted studies that show non-ionizing radiation to be hazardous or that it causes any kind of ill effects at all. In fact, double blind studies have repeatedly shown that people who complain of symptoms they claim are caused by WiFi, Bluetooth, cellular signals, or electrical fields from power lines can not tell the difference between when they are powered on and when they are not, consistently complaining of symptoms when they believe the devices are powered on and claiming relieve when they believe they are powered off, regardless of the actual state of the devices.

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WolseleyPark234 wrote:

Hope me this helps and is a warning to all.

David.

Too late for the warning, my watch causes me absolutely no discomfort at all, should I be worried in case it is not working correctly?

Hello All,

I am following up to this thread to see if this tid bit can help anyone of you guys as well! Let me brief you guys in on my issue, I had severe pain on my wrists from wearing the AW3 for a day. I took the AW3 back to best buy and then I got an AW1 to try out... It hurt a TINY bit when I first put it on However, I did find relief and my solution was to turn off the heart rate sensor and fitness tracking as well as not having the band too tight! I realize that's not the main issue but... the AW1 is thinner because of the smaller / thinner heart rate sensor whereas for the AW3 it's thicker even if a little bit so, for me I noticed the notch on AW1 I was on s/m band and the fourth hole and for the AW3 a comfortable medium is the fifth hole! Please try this out too since I did notice a difference, maybe making new bands to accommodate folks pressure points would help a lot of people out! I'm going to look into the loops or ones where I can control the tightness. ( I hope that made sense) Anyway, to turn off the heart rate sensor and tracking :

go on the iPhone apple watch app -

Go to Privacy

turn off heart rate and fitness tracking.

This has worked for me and it's been a few days with the AW3. I still use the watch for it's other features and I tested this on the AW1 for a few days and then I still wanted the Aw3 so I purchased another one and did the same procedure and I am happy to report that I don't have any pain at all!

I hope this will provide some of you like myself, the ability to have and ENJOY the AW without pain.

I understand some folks really want the heart rate sensor and tracking on but if you have sensitivity to UV lights and just sensitivity to radiation then this could very well work for you since I am sensitive on both fronts. *please read my full story up above in this thread.

I really hope this helps at least one person!

I have the first apple watch and it work fine for ages. Then the pains started to come in my left wrist, I was not sure what it was, but I could not wear the watch. After a few months my wrist stopped hurting so I put it back on and within hours it started hurting again.

I changed the watch to the right had and was OK for a few weeks, I can now feel the same pain coming into my right wrist. I do not wear the band very tight, so this is not the issue. I am not sure but you would have to suspect the heart monitor may be causing the issue.

Maybe apple could give us a way of turning off the monitors in the future?

But I can no longer wear the watch on either wrist. :-(, it is too much pain to stand.

Turning this off has helped, I can at least now wear the watch again, even if its for only half the day.

Thanks for your help, I thought I was going mad, I mean how could it be the watch, surly lots of people would have the same issue.

But now that I have spoken to other wears it seams to be a common issue and most people I talk to no longer wear their apple watch either.

I just googled for the same thing. My friend talked me into getting the watch series 3 for the gym. I think the watch is great as far as keeping track of everything for my workout regimen, Although I have been getting a pain in my wrist as well. As soon as I put the watch on I feel the pain within 30 minutes. As soon as I take the watch off the pain goes away within 15 minutes. I’m glad to know that I’m not the only one experiencing this.