When detection was added to the Apple Watch, I was notified after the first month of analysis. And went to the doctor.

It got me on the right track, and a year later I’ve gone down to minimal medication for it. I might be off of it completely sometime next year.

I recently started paying more attention to my blood pressure because of some new meds, and I was actually shocked how easy it is to measure it in the US. Pretty much any pharmacy let’s you measure it for free. I ended up buying a monitor to use at home, and it was less than $20.

Before this though, I had no idea about these things. I didn’t even know what the numbers meant, any time a nurse would tell me during a checkup.

122/72 today. cheap watch/tracker. ‘pulse pressure’ is 122 - 72 = 50. 40 is healthy, 60 is unhealthy, so guess i’ll live.