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Apr 23, 2022
A new way to tell myself to rest.
1 of 1 found this helpful I needed a fitness tracker to start keeping a closer watch on my heart rate and my heart rate variability (HRV) to manage post exertional malaise from chronic illnesses. I have Long Covid, POTS, and probably Chronic Fatigue, so I am always exhausted and my heart rate is always high. I read about how you can use a fitness tracker to monitor the times of day where your energy stores are high as well as when they are low so that you can do your necessary activities when your energy is higher and rest when your stores are low.
I looked at several different watches and liked the look of the Garmin VivoSmart 4 best and it turned out to have higher ratings than my second choice as far as features were concerned, so it was the winner. The Stress score is virtually ones HRV, and when one has any type of heart issue like I do, you want to monitor this closely. The VivoSmart 4 has a Body Battery, which has a score between 5-100 that tells you your body's energy stores for the day. Your body battery charges up while you sleep or when you nap, and it depletes during the day as you are active. For me, with severe chronic illness, I lose a point just getting dressed.
My body battery was only 29 when I put it on and it quickly dropped to 5. It stayed there. I Googled this, and many new users experience this for their first week as the watch learns their body. For me, my batter didn't start charging until day 10, but I am really really fatigued from my illnesses. The highest score I've woke up with yet in 14 days is 51, and that was only once, but I have a really high heart beat, which affects how the watch calculates Stress, because my HRV is low. It's really complicated for me.
But now that it's beginning to measure me accurately, it's giving me a lower stress score, and eventually I hope my body battery will become higher, because even a 50 is still low, and most of my body battery is super low which means I need to rest. And I actually know that's true. I do need to rest. I can feel that in my real body. I look forward to using this to navigate my chores more efficiently. If I see my body battery higher I can do dishes or laundry and then nap to recharge. This is why I bought it.
I know many people buy these for fitness workouts, but they are great resources for people managing post exertional malaise and learning to avoid causing it. Now as for fitness workouts, it often believes I'm doing a high intensity workout when I take a shower, when I do dishes, and when I cook, because my heart rate gets so high during any of these activities. I don't know whether to laugh or cry about that.