Visible: Pacing for illness

Studies have shown that keeping a symptom diary can actually increase symptoms due to continued focus on symptoms, see studies by Ferrari et al. I used this app when I first realized I had long covid and believe that it made me worse through that time. I can see how it might be useful for some people but if you find that it is causing you to continually focus on your symptoms and in turn increase anxiety around symptoms then I don’t recommend it.

This app, along with Gentler Streak, has been a big part of my toolkit for managing Long COVID. The free version alone was a great datapoint for planning my days and tracking symptoms. I just started the paid version with the armband and am very impressed so far. Also support is extremely responsive and friendly! Grateful to have this as part of my management plan and highly recommend.

Visible has made managing my chronic illness easier, and for the first time I have accurate quantitative daily data on some of what is going on in my body. I had been trying to pace for years by manually monitoring my heart rate on a smart watch but, while it was better than nothing, Visible is much more accurate and can provide me timely warnings that I’m overdoing it. The team behind Visible has been wonderful and helpful any time I need help or have feedback.

This app has everything, but unfortunately is not much use to me without the band. I really hope this comes to Canada soon, especially during our current healthcare crisis. I am only 27 with symptoms of POTs and my heart rate can go up to 178bpm just from standing, and doctors do not take me seriously. It took my Apple Watch to prove I was having heart palpitations 2 years ago before I finally got diagnosed with PVC’s and PAC’s. This band has the same potential. If I had proper consistent 24hr proof with this app, I feel like I could not only get a diagnosis, but my life back as well. I have CFS and several symptoms of POTs and fibromyalgia, I have brain fog and dissociation from PTSD and now my post-Covid health problems which doesn’t always make me aware of symptoms to track manually or check my EKG app on my watch, and our doctors don’t listen due to my age being “too young.” Not to mention we are congested, many young patients are simply ignored. Please come to Canada soon… 💕 this app has so much potential to save lives 🙏 I want my life back 💕

The hrv tracking is my favourite part. Not just because it tracks it but because it actually tells me when to take it easy! That has been the hardest part with long Covid is to know when I should or shouldn’t do extra activities. The only issues I have with the app is A. The hrv tracking is only in the morning. You can’t track throughout the day. And B. You can’t get a full report until you’ve been tracking for a month. Which normally would be fine but I really needed the results for an important doctors appointment and I’ve only been tracking for 2 weeks. So now I won’t have those results before my appointment. But besides my personal issue with how it’s set up the app itself is amazing and easy to use!

Visible is in its infancy as an app. Ha ing said that, it's very impressive. Very easy to get up to speed using it. Unlike a fitness watch, Visible tracks illness. Having had LHC and a number of sensitivity syndromes as well as 20 us symptoms, Visible makes tracking easy and tracking for pacing works well. I look forward to see this app develop further. Keep up the great work!!

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I have next to no medical support . I am a former Nurse , and have had very good success with participating in the launch of this Visible app . I am not techno savvy but use the app easily . This tracker helps me have hope that someday science will end the madness of how this patient population is treated .

A really helpful support and a well developed app

A great application, easy to use and to track Covid symptoms. I really like the monthly and yearly reports now available. I only wish that I had known about this application during the early stages of my Covid infection. As is, I have managed to track about a years worth of my illness.