The Apple Watch — my wife and I got Apple Watches a year (or is it two) ago since we wanted to track our health.

Now I haven’t seen this mentioned anywhere widely, but both of us got rashes/painful bumps from wearing the watch. And this wasn’t a one off either — my wife tried it several times, and also switched hands, but the issue would come back every time. So there’s something wrong with the Apple Watch, at least for us. I gave up on the watch at that point and have been vehemently against the Apple Watch since then.

We started talking about health stats recently and we decided to give a fitness tracker/watch another chance but no Apple Watches, no sireee Bob! We aren’t going that route again 😛

So we gave the Mi Band 7 a try. It did most of what we wanted but the screen was a little too small for our agin eyes 🙂 So we tried the Amazfit Band 7 and that has a slightly bigger screen and better battery life than the Mi Band 7 and at a fraction of the cost of the Apple Watch.

I’ve moved on to an Amazfit GTS 4 mini since then and I have to say that I’m actually very happy with Amazfit and the functionality you get for a very low price. But it’s still just a couple of weeks and I’m curious to see if the Apple Watch issues surface with this one too …

#HealthTracking #AppleWatch #Amazfit #MiBand

@f of course you neglect to mention that the miband 7 gave me a rash as well. ;)

@f Do you have a nickel sensitivity? https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204665

@docbraines Not that I know of, but then again, I don’t generally wear any accessories and so would probably not know anyway 🙂 But a good thing to be aware of and to compare against any other issues … Thanks!

@f me too. But it began to happen a year after v5. I’d worn it for all versions but v5 did something with sensors!!! I wear it on inside of wrist to prevent that now

@jann Yeah, this would be v6 or v7 on our side and I suspected the sensors since I got painful bumps exactly under the sensors … Good to know that wearing on the inside of the wrists might be an option. Thanks! 🙂

@f I got red bumps which later puss started oozing from - like from a burn. I used 2.5% Hydrogen Peroxide ointment on it for a couple days and it went away.

Later I got those Hydrocolloid Gel Bandages and put those over the healed skin. They allowed the sensors to still penetrate to my skin/blood yet protected me. I got tired of the extra expense and just reversed the watch on the inside of my arm. Worked ever since.

I got the 21mmx42mm size. Perfect size! Link below:

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07D1CT9DX

@jann I thought the issue might have been a new sensor like the blood oxygen saturation one but that wasn’t introduced till series 6. There seems to have been no major changes in terms of series 5 and so I’m curious as to why it started with Series 5 …

I’m also curious as to why there is no mention of this anywhere. Are we that rare a case? Sounds a little improbable to me. Ah well … 🙂