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Fitbits and Apple Watches weren’t designed for people with atypical health conditions. But the tech can be extremely useful—with some creativity.

Although changes in resting heart rate can be a useful indicator of a person’s health, the disadvantage is that resting heart rate tends to stay relatively stable throughout the course of a person’s life, which means that any changes tend to be incremental and can take a while to detect as meaningful.In the fall of 2021, when I knew something wasn’t right but I just couldn’t get my doctors to take me seriously, I bought anin a fit of desperation, to wear in conjunction with my Fitbit.

Heart rate variability, which is the variation in timing between heartbeats, offers a complementary look at overall health, in part because it is an indirect look at how a person’s autonomic nervous system is functioning.

The major issue with tracking HRV is that the numbers are hard to make sense of, as the values are highly variable, including a wide range in average values from person to person, and even a wide variation from hour-to-hour, depending on a person’s health and environment. It’s these wide ranges in values that make HRV so confusing to interpret and also doesn’t lend well to once-a-year health checkups. However, when these averages are looked at over time, they can offer some useful insights.

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