Bar graph showing reduced HRV this morning
EliteHRV heartrate variability 51 today - compared with 61 yesterday
Heartrate Variability (HRV) has dropped
#visible_health 👇 #EliteHRV 👇
Approaching 1pm on Saturday.
1.5km walked.
Another short stroll in Totnes for some lunch.
Heavy compost bag carried to car at garden centre and brought a fair distance from car to back garden at home.
And I've only used 2 #visible_health PacePoints 😊
Amazed! #LongCovid
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Ending my day on just 8 out of my allocated 30 #visible_health PacePoints used.
Largely due to the Parasympathetic Swing lowering my resting HR.
But tomorrow's Stability is assured...
Visible Looking Stable
EliteHRV 9 OUT OF 10 READINESS
Kubios 75% Readiness
Early Saturday morning and I've got this #LongCovid body under control - for now...
#visible_health Stability and HRV trending upwards
#EliteHRV Readiness and Balance
#kubiosHRV Readiness also great
#Pacing to avoid debilitating #PostExertionalMalaise during a dental infection
Visible Health Pacing line diagonally across graph from 6am to midnight. The line goes diagonally upwards at a steady gradient, until 10:30pm. As I'm still lying ib bed, my actual exertion line is going horizontally, so I am currently 4 pacepoints below the pacing line.
Tuesday: my weekly day off.
Yesterday was very busy (teaching) but deliberate Rest kept me below my #visible_health PaceSetter 😊
On Tuesdays I have more control of my activities, allowing me to hold back and get *behind* my Pacesetter 👇
Especially important today because...
Visible Health graphic giving the data described
My morning check-in with #Visible_health could not be clearer:
My body *feels* stable again. Heartrate Variability is back up towards (but within) my normal range and my Resting Heartrate is back around my 'ideal' 57bpm 🙏
But the cherry on the cake? ...
Visible Health display of how many pacepoints I've used showing that I'm still 11 behind today's pacesetter
Nearing the end of this week's gym session at #NuffieldHealth
But it's the first time I've had access to the new #Visible_Health visuals
Interesting to see how, even at my most active, my PacePoints use is at a sustainable rate - i.e. at the same gradient as the 'Pacing' line 🤔
Visible Health summary graphs for yesterday. 28.8 out of 30 Pacepoints used
Visible Looking Stable this morning
EliteHRV 9 out of 10 Readiness and balance between Sympathetic and Parasympathetic Nervous System activity this morning.
KubiosHRV 69% Readiness
Ended Monday 1 #Visible_Health PacePoint below my daily budget due to repeated & deliberate REST all afternoon & evening.
A good night's sleep & I'm very much ready for Tuesday 🙏
#Pacing to avoid overexertion & the debilitating #PEM associated with #LongCovid
Visible EliteHRV KubiosHRV
My pacing line graph has almost made contact with the straight Perfect Pacing line. Fewer than 2 pacepoints ahead now.
Feet up in-between the front seats of my car for well over an hour.
Almost back on-track.
Thank you #Visible_Health 🙂
Heartrate graph showing decline during meetings and when driving
Almost back on my pacing line
Almost back on-track 🙏
Good old #Visible_Health 🙂
#Pacing to avoid the #PEM associated with my #LongCovid when I over-exert
Looking Stable. HRV higher than recent average
2. The #visible_health app notes that I'm.within my recent limits for HRV and Resting Heartrate, but my HRV is ticking upwards and Resting HR starting to drop...
7.2 out of today's 30 visible health pacepoints budget - based on heartrate staying low
8:30pm on final evening in Rome.
Kept well-within today's #visible_health
Pacepoints budget by avoiding physical & mental over-exertion 👇
Slightly exceeded my nominal 60 minutes of daily 'Moderate' movement ( #KiActiv) by just 14 minutes🙏
We did (slowly!) walk over 10,000 steps but I feel fine.
Visible Health Looking Stable 4 out of 5
EliteHRV Readiness of 8 out of 10. Slight Parasympathetic imbalance
Kubios HRB 63% readiness
... My partner walked much further, often walking ahead to find the best views and to avoid me walking unnecessary distances 🙏
But how are my three Heartrate Variability apps suggesting that my body is coping?
#Visible_Health - Stable
#EliteHRV - Ready and In Balance
#KubiosHRV Ready ...
Visible Health heartrate graph
So very frustrating! I feel like I could do so much more, but this #LongCovid #PostExertionalMalaise is tricksy!
There have been times when my gym session has used-up 8 to 10 #Visible_Health PacePoints 🤔
90% Readiness
9 out of 10 Readiness
Looking Stable 4 out of 5
Tuesday - My day-off work and the day I go to the #NuffieldHealth gym.
Good times indeed 🙏
#KubiosHRV identifying 'Very High' Readiness this morning
#EliteHRV 9/10 Readiness and great balance between PNS & SNS
#Visible_Health Stability
The risk is that I push too hard at the gym. Good to know.
1.2 out of 30 daily pacepoints
And today (Sunday) I've rested even more than I did yesterday:
Almost 20 PacePoints behind today's #Visible_Health pacesetter 👇
The coughing has reduced and I feel OK. But my body has clearly been fighting-off an infection, and #LongCovid has weakened my defences.
56.7 out of today's budget of 30
...and with my heartrate soaring over 140bpm during my 15-minute Assembly this morning (which was very enjoyable and went down very well, I should say!)
Here's the bottom-line:
I'm ending the day 27 #Visible_health PacePoints over-budget.
But I've got another 10 hours' rest 🙏
40 out of my daily 30 pacepoints used
53 of my 60 minutes of Moderate activity
Had to stay late at work, marking mock exams.
It's 6pm and I'm ten #Visible_health
PacePoints ahead of my (heartrate-based) daily energy budget...
& I'm at my #KiActiv (movement-based) daily limit too.
Feet feel 'heavy' - a sign of #PEM starting.
#LongCovid #LongCovidTeacher
EliteHRV app says I'm 10 out of 10 Ready for this afternoon and in perfect Balance between Sympathetic and Parasympathetic Nervous Systems
Over-indulged on the food and drink this Christmas Day, but not to a great extent.
Paced well, but my body was Out Of Balance according to #Visible_health *and* #EliteHRV *and* #KubiosHRV when I woke up this #BoxingDay morning...
So I went back to sleep - Repeatedly.
12:45pm 👇 😆 🙏
#LongCovid
Visible Health donut chart showing that I've only used 8.5 of today's 30 Pacepoints
On top of making mince pies this morning, I'm pleased to still find myself EIGHT #Visible_health PacePoints behind today's Pacesetter.
It will be over a week before I'm back at the gym. Think I'll return to the online sessions used during the #NuffieldHealth #LongCovid Rehab course...
24 out of 30 PacePoints
...and, by resting well after work, I'm well-within the day's #visible_health PacePoints budget.
An interesting final half-day at work tomorrow 😄
5.4 out of 6.0
No change this December.
Stable and Coping 🙏
#Pacing to manage my #LongCovid #PEM symptoms
#FUNCAP27 via #visible_health
HRV graph for the past month showing it dropping over the past 3 days
The #Visible_health app also clearly shows a drop in Heartrate Variability over the past couple of days - i.e. since the pain of my infection started 👇
Heartrate graph for the past month. Clear jump this morning
Resting heartrate is much higher than usual 👇
I suppose my body is starting to win this battle with the invading bacteria 🙏
#Visible_health graph shows it to be over 10bpm higher than usual...
Looking Stable 4 out of 5
My fortnightly half-day Wednesday at work
'Early Warning System' suggesting that I'll hardly use any #Visible_health PacePoints this morning, as my HR will probably stay low. Overexertion is a real threat during these #ParasympatheticSwing s
Visible Health says 'Stable'...
Daily graph of HRV on waking
Looking Stable
...and #Visible_health provides further support to this currently happening.
Heartrate Variability UP, but not enough for my body to yet be 'Unstable'...
Functional Capacity 5.4 out of a healthy person's score of 6.0
My monthly Functional Capacity score was below 5 for the first 2.5 years after my first #SARSCoV2 infection
Now I monitor my heartrate to reduce overexertion, now I'm working part-time and attending the #NuffieldHealth gym, my #visible_health #FUNCAP27 score has remained over 5
#LongCovid #Pacing
Bar chart of heartrate during my gym visit
6.3 out of today's 30 PacePoints. 5 behind my pacesetter
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I'm also constantly monitoring my heartrate using Visible Health and lying on the floor repeatedly during my gym workouts, to get my heartrate back down 🙏
Haven't done much else this morning, so hardly any of my #Visible_health PacePoints used.
Feeling energised 😊
..And, since the start of 2025, I've used the additional #Visible_health heartrate monitor armband (on my other arm!) to constantly monitor my heartrate and to better understand how to Pace my life with #LongCovid - approaching 4 years since I was first infected with #SARScov2...
Previous 12-months symptoms graph
Last 12 months symptoms graph
Here are those #Visible_health Health Reports side-by-side 👇
It's a full-time job monitoring my physical exertion (using a movement-sensing #KiActiv smartwatch) and constantly monitoring my heartrate to avoid over-exertion (using a separate #Coospofitness HR monitor armband)...
