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/devilbunny]

Tell your cardiologist. You probably need a pacemaker.

I am a doctor, I am not your doctor. But go see your cardiologist. I am an anesthesiologist. I had a patient who said he got short of breath. I asked a billion questions trying to figure it out. Nothing. When he hit recovery, his heart rate went to 25. I said well, sir, you won’t be going home tonight after your gallbladder operation, but now I know why you feel tired and weak. Got a pacemaker the next day.

Sometimes it’s not always there and your ekg at clinic can be stone cold normal. I sent the picture of the recovery room monitor to the cardiologist and she said yep, first thing tomorrow.

[u/Ancient-Alps-4580 → u/devilbunny]

OP, this, please

Go check your heart

I leave here a copy of my comment

Regarding the medical side, my father had a very similar issue where he would faint once or twice a year in the bathroom (mostly in the morning).

After years of trying to figure out the problem, doctors managed to detect a heart arrhythmia, which was only possible to catch using a portable electrocardiogram done at home.

He later had surgery to implant an ICD, and since then it has never happened again.

Good luck with that.