Apple Watch causing wrist pain

If the device is causing you severe wrist pain the LAST place I would put it is on my chest directly over my heart/organs. I would stop wearing it altogether. It's not worth the unknown of what it could do to you.

It's more likely that you have a sensitivity to the EMF that the watch puts off. I had the same problem with a FitBit. I had to stop wearing it because of the intense pain it gave me in my wrist. Took the device off, in a week, no pain. Put it back on, pain. Took it off again, no pain. Put it on the other wrist, the pain started again but on the other wrist. It's the EMF. Everyone has different levels of sensitivity that's why it bothers some more than others. The jerks that are trolling this thread love to believe that it isn't a thing but they have no clue what they're talking about.

Why risk it? Take it off and sell it but just in case see your doctor.

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Try a different watch strap I find the steel one off Ebay with butterfly fastening

Very good to wear plastic straps make you sweat.

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Your logic is flawed.

First step to getting Apple to look in to it is to see a physician and get a medical diagnosis.

Go see your doctor.

Anyone the feels Apple should do something different, should be sending Feedback, as these forums are not an Apple communications channel

http://Apple.com/feedback

Thermal burn? I read that report you linked, and can pretty much guarantee it was not caused by a watch overheating. Unless the complainant has a medical problem with heat and pain sensation any internal overheating in the watch would cause discomfort and be noticed long before it caused injury. It is not plausible that a watch could heat up fast enough to cause immediate burns without other evidence of catastrophic failure - like ceasing to work or bursting into flames Samsung style. The natural response to a hot watch would be to remove the watch immediately. It certainly wouldn’t be overlooked until it was time to remove the watch later in the day.

To my non-medical eye the photos are more suggestive of chemical burns, or maybe something like nickel sensitivity. In any case surface burns whether thermal or chemical in origin are localized surface injuries and would not cause the soft tissue swelling or deep bone pain reported by many of the complainants.

I didn't think I had CTS either. I had no problem with the Apple watch, either. But when I saw a neurologist for something else (paresthesia) he diagnosed CTS in addition. Tingling and arm weakness is a neurological condition. Pressure on a vein has different symptoms. Yes, moving the watch up will resolve it.

I’ve tried all smart watches from Apple Watch 1 to 4, all garmin watches, and Fitbit and I still get that same neuropathic pain with numbness and tingling on the side I wear these smart watches...my wife gets the same symptoms as well...some say it’s the RF and those who are RAF engineers argue it can’t be with all the numbers in the world but there are always exceptions to the rule and outliers and we are in the minority and. Unfortunately can’t wear them.....I gave up on smart watches lol....just gotta live without it like we always have been 😱

I love my iwatch3, but I too have this pain. I wonder if its the weight of the watch on the carpal tunnel area? I am developer and I spend all day coding so I would not be surprised if I have some form of carpal tunnel syndrom and wearing the watch brings out the pain? I am experiencing the pain for the 2nd time. First time the pain was severe and i couldnt even use my left wrist. This is 11 months since I bought it. I stopped wearing the watch for a few days and it got better. I started wearing again and after a week and half it started hurting again. After it stops hurting I will try again without the heart monitor.

I just got my first iWatch about a week ago and began to get the radiating pain from my wrist to my whole arm. I looked it up an article that talks about the pain and their solution is to move the watch above your wrist bone. I did it and it helped about 25%, I still have the pain but its not as bad as it was. I really like this watch but I'm not sure if it's worth having this radiating pain for this watch. I work in an office and typing makes it worst. The pain just shoots up my arm. I really hope apple finds a solution to this.

You really don't think its a design problem? how do you explain pain free when not wearing the watch? Perhaps Apple won't find a solution and won't think its a problem if only a few people would experience this, but it seems this is a very common problem from all the posts here and other websites. so I think there must be something in the design of the watch that is causing people to have pain when using the watch.

Compared to the very large number of Apple Watches sold, very few people are reporting issues. Try loosening the band or moving the watch slightly further up the wrist toward the elbow.

This is why I looked on google to see if I find someone with the same experience.

By searching on Google, you can find that people have had every conceivable experience, including being abducted by aliens. It's no guarantee that the experience is the result of what the person things it is.

Either return the watch or see your doctor.

I get what you're saying but I don't have carpal tunnel. The only time I've experienced wrist pain was when I wore a FitBit/device that emitted EMF. As soon as I took the device off the pain stopped and I haven't felt it ever since then and I never felt it before I owned the device. For me, it's the EMF, it's not carpal tunnel.