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Stress Score During Sickness and Panic Attack

Former Member
Former Member over 6 years ago
Can I get a better explanation of stress score? I have read that it is HRV but I need a more laymans description that makes it understandable to my activity. Does a high-stress period mean my heart variability is low or high? And what does that mean the body is doing.

Sickness

Recently it was interesting to track a sinus infection I had and essentially it showed I was at Stress for more than 24 hour period even when sleeping. https://medium.com/@efwjames/my-vivosmart-4-records-a-sinus-infection-5a2bb282c66e

Why is it that after several days of high stress, suddenly my body went to cool rest mode for like another 2 days even though I was out and about.

Panic Attacks

Sunday I watched a 2 hour movie in the theatre and because my stress score was high the entire time I started having panic attacks. I'm seeing a correlation between the high stress and the peaks and valleys of heart rate.

But overall heart rate was actually "normalish" according to the standard of 80-100 bpm. And at the end of the day the stress score is suppose to average 56% of stress. However I have many normal days where I have no panic attacks and the graphs can look very similar, just sitting down at the computer all day.


It would be nice to get some insight as to what I'm suppose to get out of these. At this point it is causing me to have more anxiety not less!



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  • 0 over 6 years ago
    Without going into crazy detail, what you see in stress and how it relates to the score is influenced a lot by the range of stress you're in. So very high stress for a short time can be equivalent to low stress for a long time, but when you're looking at the graph it's kind of hard to compile all that. Also, very 'low' (strong) rest times (like say under 5) have a much more influential downward impact to the score than a weaker rest (say 20-25). When you're sick, it's very normal to see a stress of some kind during sleep, even sometimes all through the night. This is to be expected as your body is trying to heal itself. As you get back to normal, your HRV should improve (get higher). You generally want higher HRV, which means you have flexibility in your heart beats and that is a sign you can handle stressors better. As you get stimulated by, say an exciting movie etc., your heartbeat becomes more rigid (like a metronome) and that means you're in the state of a stress. When you relax, your heartbeat becomes more variable.
    The comparison of overall stress in the day to day is not as helpful perhaps as it should be. Like I said, it may be that you have some shorter periods of intense stress and that leads to one number, but the next day you have many periods of mild stress and that leads to the same number. Because of this, there's the graph which you can hopefully use to understand when and why stresses were happening and when you were able to get some rest.