Apple

I can see you’re asking a lot of good questions and i get the feeling you’re leaning away from getting the smart watch in favour of an annual check up.

What i would say is if she’s recently been diagnosed with anything which could be monitored vaguely by using the watch, it cant hurt to get it, even if its YOU who holds the data on your phone and all she has to do is wear it and recharge it.

Im in my 30s and was diagnosed with a non life threatening thyroid disease that intermittently makes me feel bad in many different ways. Some days i get light headed, nauseous, emotional and brain foggy and its hard to tell of its because of my thyroid playing up or of its because i haven’t had enough water and food. I dont yet have an apple watch (currently using garmin) and i use the various heart and oxygen data to help me work out whether my issues are because i forgot to eat properly or if my thyroid is going haywire.

It helps me tuck away my hypochondriac tendencies when i can see that my body isn’t doing anything unusual, but if my pulse ox or heart rate does change, it will prompt me to visit my doctor to get my bloods and medications updated.