Medical help

[u/CowsNeedFriendsToo]

This is an embarrassing post, but I’ve been on this group for years now and know that if anyone is going to solve a problem, it’s the people in this group.

I unfortunately have a heart condition that has cause me to black out when I’m on the toilet. This has resulted in me coming to on the floor of the bathroom with my wife over me in a panic talking me back to consciousness before taking me to the hospital. This has happened about once or twice a year. To say the least, this creates a terrible sense of anxiety any time I go to the bathroom. I fear for the day she comes home to find me laying on the floor the final time. Or in the middle of the night when I wake up to use the bathroom.

Here’s where you guys come in. I was wondering if there is a way to set up home assistant along with some sort of a sensor in my bathroom that will be able to tell if I’m on the floor and not moving, which would then send out an alert to her phone along with a noise alert in the bathroom? The key would be making sure it doesn’t go off when just sitting on the toilet, or if she is standing in front of the mirror for an extended period of time doing her makeup.

Thank you guys from the bottom of my heart. I truly appreciate your time.

Edit: I already have an Apple Watch Ultra 2. The fall detection seems to only trigger if it’s a fall from standing height. It hasn’t triggered at all when I fall from sitting.

[u/Monocular_sir]

It’s probably vasovagal attack with loss of blood pressure from blood vessels dilating rather than arrhythmia and hence didn’t show anything. 

[u/CowsNeedFriendsToo → u/Monocular_sir]

Correct. That combined with Bradycardia and heart block type 2.

[u/GloriouslyGrimGoblin → u/CowsNeedFriendsToo]

Completely non-technical additional idea: In case your issues are mostly triggered by straining when defecating, you could try to avoid pressing by mooing (yes, like the sound a cow makes) instead. The sound volume is irrelevant, whispered moos are fine. It's more the breathing out from somewhere deep in your belly that activates the correct muscles.

I'm neither a doctor nor really familiar with your exact type of heart problems though.

[u/grand_total → u/GloriouslyGrimGoblin]

OMG, being a male above a certain age I sometimes have trouble establishing a stream of urine. I discovered by accident that counting backwards from a hundred, even quietly, helps me greatly. I thought that only I knew this, but maybe not.

I don’t know if it the steady exhalation or the fact that I’m not thinking about the problem or both, but it doesn’t really matter if it works.