Stress level monitoring is totally unbelievable?

3463564 4 days ago

Most days my vivosmart5 watch indicates extremely high stress levels including poor levels during sleep which causes an extremely poor sleep quality and extremely low body battery!!!!!!

I am under no stress and my sleep last night was 9 hours with fair deep, rem and light sleep times but a stress level of 35??????????? I woke up feeling good after a good nights sleep, but immediately got stressed after looking at my sleep results and body battery readings on this stupid watch!!!!!!!!

My stress levels have increased steadily since starting to use this watch and the only thing that has changed in my life is this watch!!!!!!! I am going to get rid of this stupid device which causes me way more grief than anything else in my life. I am 76 years old and do a cardio like exercise for 35 to 45 minutes every day, average 8 hrs sleep and eat reasonbly healthy. I am financially stable with limited health issues.

I am willing to bet that Garmin has alot more watch users who have realized this same major issue as me!!!!!!!!!!!

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flowstate 3 days ago in reply to 3463564 +1

3463564 said:
It seems that these people simply refuse to accept that what I am saying can even be possible, and so choose to ignore what I am saying as fact in any way!

It's probably more that:

- they…

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0 trux 4 days ago

Seeing the tone of your post, I am not surprised the watch shows you high stress Try to cool down, and take unimportant things (like what the watch shows you) less seriously, and your stress may drop down. I do not think this is a general problem. My Garmin watches show (and always showed) credible values for stress and for sleep. When you calm down and manage to stop getting upset over unimportant little things, and the watch still shows high stress, you can try resetting it to factory defaults. It will then reestablish new HRV baseline, and hopefully adjust the average Stress reading you get.

0 e7andy 4 days ago

Are you using any medications or supplements? Any medical issues? Pretty much anything will affect HRV which is what is used for measuring stress.

Alcohol will also make your stress high so no alcohol if you want to get low stress.

0 3463564 3 days ago

It seems that the people who have reploied to my post have not read the words that I have posted!

Please note: The ONLY TIME that I feel any stress at all is when I look at the stress levels, sleep ratings, and body battery levels on my Garmin Watch!

I am in very good health for my age (76) - my activity age rating is 59 yrs.

I take no medications that cause me any kind of stress! I drink alcohol in extreme moderation!

Why are these posts indicating that I have a bad attitude and need to calm down etc - It seems that these people simply refuse to accept that what I am saying can even be possible, and so choose to ignore what I am saying as fact in any way! There are more people than me find the garmin stress monitoring system is erroneous for some users - check it on google!

Ps. I reset the HRV baseline monthly

0 3463564 3 days ago

It seems that the people who have reploied to my post have not read the words that I have posted!

Please note: The ONLY TIME that I feel any stress at all is when I look at the stress levels, sleep ratings, and body battery levels on my Garmin Watch!

I am in very good health for my age (76) - my activity age rating is 59 yrs.

I take no medications that cause me any kind of stress! I drink alcohol in extreme moderation!

Ps. I reset the HRV baseline monthly

0 3463564 3 days ago

It seems that the people who have reploied to my post have not read the words that I have posted!

Please note: The ONLY TIME that I feel any stress at all is when I look at the stress levels, sleep ratings, and body battery levels on my Garmin Watch!

I am in very good health for my age (76) - my activity age rating is 59 yrs.

I take no medications that cause me any kind of stress! I drink alcohol in extreme moderation!

Ps. I reset the HRV baseline monthly

0 flowstate 3 days ago in reply to 3463564

3463564 said:
It seems that these people simply refuse to accept that what I am saying can even be possible, and so choose to ignore what I am saying as fact in any way!

It's probably more that:

- they are not seeing the same thing as you are

- they are trying their best to help

- they don't really care *that* much (no offense)

I'm talking about the first 2 replies, and not "Brock Heyman" who is an obvious AI bot, or even worse, a real live human who just regurgitates ChatGPT as if it's supposed to be helpful. I mean, "Brock Heyman's" reply is literally just a reworded version of the first reply - so if that's a real person, they've literally replaced their own brain with ChatGPT (congrats!).

I'll just echo what was said before: don't take Garmin stats too seriously. Personally I try to look at the trends and not the absolute numbers. But I also try to listen to my body instead of my Garmin, when there's a conflict between the two.

If you feel like you got ripped off (because you bought a Garmin specifically for these stats), you should try to get your money back tbh. Personally I think Apple Watch is a much better smartwatch (especially if you have iphone), and probably a better fit for most people.

If I wasn't a runner, I wouldn't be using Garmin. And I know a few casual runners who switched to Apple Watch. Nobody *needs* a Garmin watch (or Apple Watch, Fitbit, etc.)