ECG - hopefully a QQ

[martint235]

So I’ve just got a new AWU2 and I’m trying ECG out on it as I suffer from AFib. I can’t say whether it’s 100% but it’s very close so that’s good. However it’s not syncing to the Health app on my phone. Is this likely to be because my phone is on a beta and my watch is on 11.6.1?

Thanks in advance.

 

[jz0309]

So I’ve just got a new AWU2 and I’m trying ECG out on it as I suffer from AFib. I can’t say whether it’s 100% but it’s very close so that’s good. However it’s not syncing to the Health app on my phone. Is this likely to be because my phone is on a beta and my watch is on 11.6.1?

Thanks in advance.

so the only "data" I see on the AW when taking an ECG is my heart rate and that it show no signs of AFib, and I can see the graph as it progresses. It also says you can see the EVG in the health app on your phone.
It is highly likely that released on AW vs beta on iPhone don't talk "nice", so either both beta or both released OS in order to get "normal" behavior.
Both my parents had AFib so I am cautious about it ...

 

[martint235]

so the only "data" I see on the AW when taking an ECG is my heart rate and that it show no signs of AFib, and I can see the graph as it progresses. It also says you can see the EVG in the health app on your phone.
It is highly likely that released on AW vs beta on iPhone don't talk "nice", so either both beta or both released OS in order to get "normal" behavior.
Both my parents had AFib so I am cautious about it ...

Thanks for the response. I’ve had it for a few years as episodic but have been continuous for 10 weeks. I have a proper monitor at home and have also just seen a cardiologist but was hoping I could get ad hoc readings. Will wait for watch to catch up with the phone.

 

[jz0309]

Thanks for the response. I’ve had it for a few years as episodic but have been continuous for 10 weeks. I have a proper monitor at home and have also just seen a cardiologist but was hoping I could get ad hoc readings. Will wait for watch to catch up with the phone.

let me ask: can you see AFib event in the actual graph?
I have no idea ...
I have recently had 2 EKGs (with my PCP and a cardiologist) and both indicated that I had a cardiac event (infarct) in the past. Cardiologist did an echo and he told me that it showed no signs of a previous cardiac event. Still learning about all this ...

 

[martint235]

let me ask: can you see AFib event in the actual graph?
I have no idea ...
I have recently had 2 EKGs (with my PCP and a cardiologist) and both indicated that I had a cardiac event (infarct) in the past. Cardiologist did an echo and he told me that it showed no signs of a previous cardiac event. Still learning about all this ...

I wouldn’t recommend trying to self diagnose but I know from looking at the graph on both my watch and my Kardia whether the results at the end will be AFib.

 

[jz0309]

I wouldn’t recommend trying to self diagnose but I know from looking at the graph on both my watch and my Kardia whether the results at the end will be AFib.

I wouldn't try to self-diagnose, just pure curiosity. If it ever happens, I'd be on the phone right away to make appointments with my PCP and cardiologist.

 

[martint235]

I wouldn't try to self-diagnose, just pure curiosity. If it ever happens, I'd be on the phone right away to make appointments with my PCP and cardiologist.

The watch only gives you one graph, if you get a Kardia 6L it gives you 6 different graphs and once you’ve seen a few normal sinus rhythms and a few AFibs, you can see the similarities. To be honest I don’t know what the various measures actually mean but I can recognise the shapes associated with AFib.

 

[NoBoMac]

+1 for Kardia 6L. Have one myself and been real happy with it. Happier than AW as the Digital Crown can get schmutz-y from sweat and might have a tough time getting a reading.

Watch is nice for away from home if feel need to get a reading, Kardia at home once a week (a day and time that is 99.9% of the time free, post workouts, ergo have as few variables as possible when reading) to keep the doctor happy (but he has yet wanted to look at any of the at home graphs of yet).

 

[martint235]

So I’ve now got both devices on the beta but ECG is still not copying to the phone but everything else (heart rate etc) does. Not going to worry about it as the watch is kind of just an indicator as to when I need to use the Kardia.

 

[Mike Boreham]

So I’ve now got both devices on the beta but ECG is still not copying to the phone but everything else (heart rate etc) does. Not going to worry about it as the watch is kind of just an indicator as to when I need to use the Kardia.

I have paroxysmal AF and my watch will alert me me if it detects AF over a short period of time, something like 4 times in 24 hrs, so it is monitoring continuously, not a single reading. The first time I got the alert led to a proper diagnosis. When it happens now, I recognise the symptoms without needing an alert, but I check with a manual run.

All my AF data and ECGs sync to the phone. Have you given permission for the data to be synced to the phone in all the right places.

 

[martint235]

I’ll have a look at permissions.