Bad HRV-status correlates with having a cold?

Hi,

I was having a 14-days period when feeling sick and having a cold (mancold:)). I did no traing during this period. I think it is very interesting to see that my Epix 2 shows this HRV-status during the period:

I think it correlates very well with how I felt. What do you think? Is it just a coincidence or is my watch this "smart"?

Thanks,

Johannes

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[Redacted] over 2 years ago +1

Of course your HRV goes down when you're sick.

Something to read:

www.trainingpeaks.com/.../
Dr Phil over 2 years ago in reply to gaijin +1

Oops! My bad. I did mean up of course.
Dr Phil over 2 years ago in reply to Former Member +1

That'll be the excuse I'll take. Although, since up and down are geographical constructs from the northern powers of centuries past, we believe that us folk down under are really the folks that are up…

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0 [Redacted] over 2 years ago

Of course your HRV goes down when you're sick.

Something to read:

www.trainingpeaks.com/.../

0 mcalista over 2 years ago

Yes, this is entirely normal - the additional stress that your body has in fighting off an infection will typically show up in HRV.

In fact, this is one of the good use cases for HRV, as it often shows your body fighting off the early stages of an illness/infection, even if you haven't showed any symptoms yet.

0 8636325 over 2 years ago

Yes, my HRV is in the red zone for 2 months, I am now recovering from a long-covid

0 Adam-1972 over 2 years ago

It is normal, I just got the same situation last two weeks.
I even can sey that my watch know me quite well, measured HRV start to drop before I observed first cold symptoms.

0 rkeddie3 over 2 years ago

100% Same for me right now.

0 Dr Phil over 2 years ago

You’ll likely find your resting heart rate trended down too.

0 gaijin over 2 years ago in reply to Dr Phil

Dr Phil said:
You’ll likely find your resting heart rate trended down too.

In my experience, when fighting an illness; as HRV goes down, resting heart rate goes up.

HTH

0 Former Member over 2 years ago in reply to gaijin

solved

0 Dr Phil over 2 years ago in reply to gaijin

Oops! My bad. I did mean up of course.

0 Dr Phil over 2 years ago in reply to Former Member

That'll be the excuse I'll take. Although, since up and down are geographical constructs from the northern powers of centuries past, we believe that us folk down under are really the folks that are up over. You people down there in the North are the ones down under!