Apple Watch causing wrist pain

She pulled the quote from this page:

https://www.cancer.org/cancer/cancer-causes/radiation-exposure/cellular-phones.h tml

She conveniently left out the paragraph right before the one she quoted:

Some scientists have reported that the RF waves from cell phones produce effects in human cells (in lab dishes) that might possibly help tumors grow. However, several studies in rats and mice have looked at whether RF energy might promote the development of tumors caused by other known carcinogens (cancer-causing agents). These studies did not find evidence of tumor promotion.

Emphasis mine.

I can't find a citation for the study that she quotes in the references, though.

Hello - problem solved - at least for me.

I have disabled the heart monitor. I also no longer wear it to bed. My wrist no longer hurts and Its been almost a month since the change.

I've yet to determine if its due to wearing my watch 24/7 or the heart monitor.

Kip

If you've been wearing the watch for three years and the pain just started, it's unlikely that the watch is the cause. It's possible that wearing a watch is aggravating a recent injury or newly developed condition. If the pain is 'fairly severe", that's a sign you need to see a doctor.

Sorry, but I tend to disagree.

A mechanical watch do not cause radiation.

And the Apple Watch doesn't "cause radiation" of the type that can cause pain or do injury.

By the way, mechanical watches can contain the type of radiation that could hurt you:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radium_dials

The production of these watches caused cancer in the people who put on the paint.

I don’t think you understand as much as you think you do. It makes perfect sense and has been tested by not only myself but many others in this thread. We all have very similar responses to wearing and removing the watch versus wearing and removing other watches. Just because someone is deaf and argues that music doesn’t exist doesn’t make them right. The watch doesn’t affect you. Cool. Use it, it’s darn cool, but please get off this thread as it’s not relevant to you. You’re the deaf person arguing with musicians.

You should also be consulting with a doctor. You could have diagnosed carpal tunnel syndrome or other issues happening in your wrist/hand.

I purchased the Apple Watch series 3 on December 28,2018 and I am experiencing pain in wrist, hand, and it goes up my forearm. I thought I was going crazy as well until I search “wrist pain with the Apple Watch” on YouTube and google, to discover others are having this issue. I am attempting to return it to Best Buy, as this issue is very serious to me. Though I am pass the “14 day return policy,” I feel this matter should be exempt from that as it is very serious in nature. I have also reached out to Apple. I’m hoping to get some resolve from both.

I've wanted to purchase an Apple Watch for FOREVER but a few years back I bought a FitBit and it gave me super intense wrist pain and weakness. I tried loosening the band and switching wrists and the pain would move to whatever wrist I had the FitBit on. I even took the FitBit off for two weeks - because that's how long it took that pain to subside only after owning it/wearing it for two weeks - and as soon as I put it back on the pain came right back. I ended up returning it for a refund. Ever since then I've wanted an Apple Watch but I'm so afraid that it might hurt to wear it and I'll end up just returning it that I haven't bought one. Super bums me out because I would LOVE to have one. Regular watches don't bother me. I wear jewelry, bracelets, etc., with no issue.

The EMF that comes from these devices is what I believe causes the pain. A lot of people say it's bull, that you can't be sensitive to EMF, but not everyone is sensitive to the same things. Based on this thread, clearly it is possible to be sensitive to EMF. Maybe there's a way for Apple to develop a low- or zero-EMF Apple Watch?? I don't know if it's possible but it would be awesome if they could. My husband wants one too. When I bought that FitBit he got one for himself too because he wanted us BOTH to have something to track things with. So when I returned mine he took his back even though it didn't bother him because he felt like it wasn't fair for him to have one and not me. Which I thought was silly but thoughtful. But anyway, he wants an Apple watch too but he won't buy one unless I can have one too. So that's two sales that Apple is missing out on - not that it matters out of millions of sales everyday probably, but we love Apple products. We have a ton of them (iMacs, iPads, iPhones, MacBooks) and we'd love to give them more of our money for really nice Apple Watches but not with the way they're currently designed and the amount of EMF that they're emitting based on what I'm reading here in this thread. Very disappointing. :(

The EMF that comes from these devices is what I believe causes the pain.
 A lot of people say it's bull, that you can't be sensitive to EMF, 

You most likely have un-diagnosed Carpel Tunnel Syndrone

https://www.healthline.com/health/carpal-tunnel-syndrome#riskfactors

The FitBit most likely put you over the edge.

In my industry Carpel Tunnel is very common, and no one would blame it on EMF because the cause is known. The causes may not be as well known in your occupation.

You should really discuss the wrist pain with a doctor.

You wont know if you have carpel tunnel syndrome or a pinched nerve if you don’t get the proper medical tests. I had carpel tunnel syndrome in my right hand with no pain at all but in my left arm the pain woke me up at night. As I said in an earlier post the problem you are having is a symptom not the cause.

Hi all,

I did post the wrist pain before, but I would just like to reply on an answer I got.

The pain is not from the band or the shape of the watch.

I experienced it very seriously this morning as I was on my execise bike.

the pain was so bad that I had to lift the watch from touching my arm, and imediately there was relief.

I saw that is is only when that green light on the back is on then the serious pain starts.

I even took the watch off completely and just held it against my wrist and the sharp pain came back.

But when I switch off the exercise app, the pain is lighter.

Just sharing...

By the way Idris is giving the same old story to everyone without even trying to understand what people are experiencing.

SO I had the same issue and the thing that has worked for me is putting the padded part of a band aid over the sensor. It still charges properly and still reads my hear rate, etc. But NO wrist pain.

See picture. Hope it helps others like it has helped me :)

I will most likely just go to the doctor at the same time you stop being a *********. My point was not that I was relying on Google to diagnose my medical conditions, just that i seemed odd that my pain had stopped when I was not wearing the watch for a short period... start wearing the watch again and my wrist is hurting again. Just sharing an observation I had made... I know that correlation is not necessarily causation, but it is certainly interesting that the pain stopped when I was not wearing the watch and since my reason for not wearing the watch had nothing to do with pain, it seems unlikely that it was a mental thing.

It could still be a mental thing, could be how you are wearing it, could be a problem with your wrist that needs looking into, could be an allergy. What it is not is cell damage caused by any of the emissions from the Watch, not Bluetooth, not WiFi, not Cellular if you have it.

Meena246 wrote:

I called Apple support and they had me talk to the Safety Advisor. He asked me a whole bunch of questions that were related to rashes and I kept telling him I was having wrist pain and no rash. He then spoke to his engineering team. To make a long story short, after speaking to him three times today, he said it was not a "Safety Issue". He said I could take the watch to the Apple Store and have them "Look into what may be wrong with it". He also suggested that I could go to my Doctor.

It sounds as if he did exactly the right thing: he advised you to see a doctor for a health problem.

Well I’ve been to my GP and they advised me to put the watch on my other wrist and see.

Tue problem is with the watch. 2 days and the pain in my wrist lessened until it was gone. I’ve actually stopped using it at much which is a shame as I loved this watch....