An incredible testimonial is added to the list of Apple Watch stories!
Hundreds of testimonials attest the certainty of the health-oriented functions of the Apple Watch when identifying symptoms in its users, until now, most of them were related to serious illnesses, the consequences of which were avoided thanks to timely visits to health centers. However, recently a new testimonial has confirmed how useful these functions are also for alerting to other types of situations.
According to the story shared by an Apple Watch user, via Reddit, an alert on the variation of your heart rate
Usually my resting heart rate is around 57 and my heart rate has gone up to 72.
Apple Watch detects more than expected
Since there are many reasons why the heart rate may increase, at first the woman believed she might have COVID-19 as some people may experience a rapid heart rate as one of the symptoms, but a COVID test showed him that was not the case. It didn’t seem like a normal cold either.
After ruling out the first few possibil ities, the woman opted to consider some online articles suggesting that pregnant women may also notice a rapid heartbeat during the first few weeks of pregnancy.
I have read that this sometimes happens in early pregnancy and of course the test was immediately positive.
After this result, she went to a clinic to take a pregnancy test, where a doctor confirmed that she was four weeks pregnant.
Even though the Apple Watch does not have an official function to detect pregnancy, this case is an interesting example that shows how the symptom variation alert works so precisely that it is able to predict major alterations in health status. In fact, the protagonist of this story was the first to confirm it:
I’m freaking out because I’m not ready for another baby, but it gives me time to consider my options and think about what I’m going to do. I know this might be an unconventional use of the watch, but if you’re a woman of childbearing age and your watch is showing an increased heart rate, it might be worth a try!
However, based on the functions available in the Apple Watch Series 8 related to female health, thanks to the incorporation of two sensors capable of determining even the ovulation cycle, controlling the changes typical of this type of process will be much easier.
