October · Dysautonomia Awareness Month

A giveaway for our community.

Two grand prizes: an Apple Watch Series 12 for one iPhone user, and a Polar H10 heart-rate strap for one Android user. Plus other prizes available. Free to enter.

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No purchase necessary. No health data collected. US residents 18 and older. View all rules

From the founder

Why I'm doing this

I have been living with this for more than four years. For most of that time, the hardest part was not the symptoms. It was not knowing. Was today a bad day, or the start of a crash? Was the new supplement helping, or was I just hoping it was? And more than once, I was told everything looked normal.

Your autonomic nervous system runs everything you never think about: your heart rate, your blood pressure, your breathing, your digestion. When it struggles, it rarely says so clearly. That is what Dysautonomia Awareness Month is for, and I want this October to be about more than a ribbon. I want more of us paying attention to our own autonomic health.

One reading is a snapshot. A month of mornings is a pattern.

That is why the entries are daily readings. Heart rate variability is one of the few windows we have into how the autonomic system is doing, and it means the most over time: your own baseline, how it moves after a bad night or a hard day, and what seems to bring it back. Ten mornings is a real start on knowing your own normal, and knowing your normal is where the answers start.

I built Autonomic for exactly that. Your readings never leave your phone, and it is made by a fellow patient for people like us. If this month gets a few more of us measuring, noticing, and a little closer to answers, it did its job.

Austin Spaeth Founder, Autonomic

How to enter

It is free, and it fits into a routine you may already have.

  1. Step 1
    Download the app
    Autonomic is free to download on iPhone and Android.
  2. Step 2
    Take a reading each day
    Sign up in the app. Every day you take an HRV reading in October earns one entry, up to 10.
  3. Optional bonus · up to 4
    Tag a friend
    Tag someone in our giveaway post on each platform. One extra entry per post.
Your data stays yours
We never see your heart rate, HRV or any health data. The only things we collect are your email address and how many readings you took. Nothing else leaves your phone.

Prizes

Two grand prizes, plus other great prizes to help our community.

iPhone grand prize
Apple Watch Series 12
One winner drawn from iPhone entries.
Android grand prize
Polar H10 strap
One winner drawn from Android entries.
Heart-rate strap
4 winners.
LMNT boxes
10 winners.
A free year of Pro
From us. 25 winners.

Dates & winners

Oct 1 to 31
Entries count for readings taken during these dates.
November 1
Winners drawn at random from all entries.
We reach out
Winners are contacted by email.

Official rules

The short version. Everything that decides who can enter and how winners are chosen.

  1. 01No purchase necessary
    A purchase does not increase your chance of winning. To enter without the app, email austin@autonomic.care and ask to be entered.
  2. 02Eligibility
    Open to legal residents of the United States, 18 or older. Void where prohibited.
  3. 03Entries
    One entry per day with a completed HRV reading from October 1 to 31, 2026, Eastern Time, up to 10. One bonus entry for tagging a friend in each official giveaway post on Facebook, Instagram, TikTok and X, up to 4 bonus entries.
  4. 04Your data
    No reading values or health data are shared with us. The only information collected is your email address and the number of readings completed.
  5. 05Selection
    All winners are drawn at random on November 1, 2026. Two grand prize winners: one from entries made on iPhone, who receives the Apple Watch Series 12, and one from entries made on Android, who receives the Polar H10. Winners of the other prizes are drawn the same day. Odds depend on the number of entries received.
  6. 06Notification
    All winners are notified by email and have 14 days to respond before an alternate is chosen.
  7. 07Not affiliated
    This giveaway is not sponsored, endorsed or administered by, or associated with, Apple, Google, Android, Polar, Coospo, LMNT, X, TikTok, Facebook, Instagram, Meta or any other platform or brand named.
  8. 08Run by
    This giveaway is run by Austin Spaeth, founder of Autonomic, Charleston, SC. Questions: austin@autonomic.care.

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