Yes, The Oura Ring Has Helped Save Lives — But Experts Say To Heed This Warning
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Experts weigh in on how to interpret your wearable's results.
Nurse practitioner Nikki Gooding wore her Oura ring for three years without incident. But then the ring, which tracks sleep, stress and fitness using health metrics, started warning the Virginia-based resident that something in her body was wrong in the beginning of last December.
The Oura ring app, which is connected to her device, started telling Gooding that she showed “major signs” of something “straining” her body. Her resting heart rate and body temperature were elevated, and her sleep scores were poor.
“When I first got [the warning], I thought maybe I was just fighting some sort of viral illness. But then I kept getting it,” Gooding told HuffPost.
The continuous alerts concerned Gooding and when she discovered a lump on her neck, these warnings pushed her into making an immediate appointment with her doctor. Gooding officially got diagnosed with lymphoma and is currently undergoing chemotherapy.
The Oura ring’s warning “definitely validated the way that I was feeling and then made me take it more seriously,” Gooding said. She posted a TikTok about how her ring “knew I had cancer before I did” that has been liked over 200,000 times.
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