Wearing the watch during illness

Hello,

Do anyone know if Garmin recommend to not wear the watch during an illness?

I am having my second Covid, the sleep quality is seriously affected and mostly the HRV is always low. I am not surprised due to the difficulty of sleeping and for the medicines.

Since the watch sets baselines, for example for HRV, according to one's typical values, then the watch will interpret HRV in the future also on the base of the data recorded during an illness, whereas this is not one's regular status.

Thank you in advance.

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0 8636325 over 1 year ago

It takes a very long time to move HRV baseline. You should actually wear your watch and make decisions based on what your HRV and body battery levels are

0 Francesco over 1 year ago in reply to 8636325

Thank you for the reply.

0 Mladen T over 1 year ago in reply to 8636325

Agree on this one...also recovering, after illness, takes time(few days or more based on the illness) so it makes sense to monitor how your body is reacting during the different phases.

0 bluefish over 1 year ago

https://www8.garmin.com/manuals/webhelp/GUID-C001C335-A8EC-4A41-AB0E-BAC434259F92/EN-US/GUID-79A4D3A0-BD44-4BE3-9A06-98F90268A483.html

https://www.garmin.com/en-US/blog/fitness/pause-your-training-status/

0 Francesco over 1 year ago in reply to bluefish

Thank you for the links.

0 Oxnull over 1 year ago

I wore my watch through the flu this year, why wouldn't you wear it? It was super interesting to see how my sleep and HRV tanked, plus my blood pressure shot through the roof, isn't the whole reason for tracking to understand what is happening in your body?

0 Francesco over 1 year ago in reply to Oxnull

Thank you for the reply.

0 Gaynier over 1 year ago

I had covid and my HRV dropped as well. The sleep score has been drastically affected by the 'stress' determined from HRV. There are now a few studies that say covid can have a long term effect on HRV.

www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/.../

0 Francesco over 1 year ago in reply to Gaynier

Thank you for the information.

0 mcat1906 over 1 year ago

Just getting over covid myself... very interesting to see the effect.. i have to say I'm very impressed with how the health details clearly show from infection to getting better.