Charge 6 - Getting active minutes when sick with COVID

[Micreh]

Hi, I got the Charge 6 to track active minutes, etc. Then I got COVID. It's interesting to see how my resting HR is higher when sick. Then one day I woke up and my Fitbit had registered 30 active minutes! Then the next day, it just showed 1 minute and the next day 6 minutes - just during the day not during sleep. Usually, this was when I had to move a little bit, like a dropped the remote control on the floor and so I got off the couch and bent down to look on the floor, and it gave me "active minutes".  That's ridiculous. I have COVID and it's elevating my heart rate. There really needs to be a way to mark either the active minutes as "sick" or a whole day as "sick". Just because your HR is up doesn't mean you're exercising. 

What I would do is add to the "stress management score" tab. When you click on that on the app, you can then click on "Reflections: How are you feeling?". Here, just add an option called "I'm sick". Perhaps you can have more options like allergies, I'm in pain today, or something. What about people who have irritable bowel symptoms or chronic fatigue or autoimmune. They probably want to note this. 

So then after we click on "I'm sick", it could let you know that the day won't be counted in the readiness score. You need to think this through.

Moderator edit-updated subject for clarity

[Triletics]

@Micreh in theory, the HRV should get unbalanced and that should indicate illness (or fatigue). The readiness (if done well but Fitbit's isn't) shouldn't stop when you get ill. In fact, it should drop but using AZM it may go either way. I'm sick now and my HRV has been in lows for 2 to 3 days but because I didn't get AZM (sick, not feeling like working out) Fitbit thinks being inactive makes me more rested. AZM shouldn't be a part of readiness at all and maybe then readiness would start making sense. Similar Garmin feature gives me training readiness 10/100 pointing out possible excessive fatigue due to very low HRV (it can't tell whether I'm sick or not) and training status metric changed to "Strained" which pretty well described how I feel right now 🤣 Fitbit did the right thing evaluating HRV. However, the sleep (less than 4hrs) for some reason is "good". This is probably because this takes into account more than one day of sleep (which is also bad idea). However, I get good readiness because my AZM was low during 2 to 3 days. The problem isn't that readiness doesn't work when you're sick. The problem is that readiness is designed within wrong parameters. The only thing that could help with marking some sickness is that it wouldn't treat elevated HR as activity (on Garmin, such settings disables training status and some metrics and affects training plans but it keeps training readiness going).

[JazzyMelon]

I totally agree with this. I was super sick in bed vomiting one day and I got like 150 active zone minutes that day with only taking around 500 steps total. There should be a way to mark sick days!!! 

Today I am sick with something in my lungs and my breaths per minute, resting heart rate, and average sleeping heart rate are all higher. (But weirdly my RHR is still 5 below the lowest number recorded) I feel like it should of said all these things yesterday, and tomorrow will be a more accurate number for today.