Managing long covid / cfs. Energy diary

RE: Managing long covid / cfs. Energy diary

beva — Fri, 31 Oct 2025 06:17:27 GMT

I suffer ME/CFS since over 15 years and started developing watch faces to help me balance. There is no user input, as input requests were a negative association for me. It just showed the active minutes as a gaugle on the hour hand and the recovery time on the minute hand. Also heart rate zone and stress level are visualized with colors on the numerouls and seconds hand. This helped me to balance, take rests, show coworkers that I need to rest with warning circles that are displayed when recovery time is over 48 hours.

I took the whole idea of projecting data on existing watch face elements to the development of the watch face Tix. It also still has the warning circles. At least it helped me to improve my health a lot. There is a 5 day trial available here: apps.garmin.com/.../df49625f-d596-4bee-bb44-318e63e50373

RE: Managing long covid / cfs. Energy diary

ginger cat — Mon, 27 Oct 2025 11:13:04 GMT

Hey,

I guess in 4 years you either found your ways (please share) or hopefully recovered.
I'll share what I do to monitor, maybe it is useful for others and maybe more people share?

What I do is that I have some Activity types configured on the watch, for example for walking the dog or doing "life things" like making tea or food... When I start doing it, I start the Activity in the watch - I have them configured with HR high level alarm, so I know when to stop. Once finished, I give the rating for the activity (how hard it was).

For recording general state during the day, I add notes in the phone Connect App to the Sleep Report, both when I wake up and when I go to sleep, I just add a line how the day was.

Also, I have added several things I am interested in tracking into the Lifestyle habits logging.

I wish there was a better way to display the data, maybe some dashboard, that would allow to more easily correlate activity, HR, stress, sleep over several days. Also, a better way to bulk export that data would be priceless.
In my case this is the only way I can prove to medical personnel that I really have a serious health condition.

Indeed, with millions of people suffering ME/CFS and long covid, there is an un-adressed market gap :P

What I really like about Garmin is data privacy, accuracy of metrics and also, I was positively surprised that even if I stay in bed and occasionally go out round the flat, Garmin recognizes how tiring and (physically) stressful it was and call it intense exercise! So Body Battery drain is more or less as I feel it.

RE: Managing long covid / cfs. Energy diary

5368934 — Fri, 12 May 2023 14:08:08 GMT

This app (https://www.pathizehealth.com ) although on your phone will integrate with Garmin's data and looks like it could be worth registering for

RE: Managing long covid / cfs. Energy diary

Reluctant — Fri, 23 Dec 2022 09:55:14 GMT

This would be great.

Also being able to say how well I felt I slept, rather than having the app assume it based on time and deep sleep.

RE: Managing long covid / cfs. Energy diary

MikeySD — Fri, 02 Sep 2022 23:29:10 GMT

I'm interested in this, too. So far I've been using the "Bearable" mobile app to keep a diary of symptoms, energy, mood, etc.