In-depth 3 month Oura ring 5 update from a girl with multiple chronic illnesses

In-depth 3 month Oura ring 5 update from a girl with multiple chronic illnesses Before I get into the review I want to preface this by saying you have to give the Oura ring a good few months before you make an opinion The Oura ring needs time to understand your baseline metrics and get to know your patterns, so at first it may seem like you don't get much. But after a month or 2 that changes completely! So firstly She looks amazing No doubt about it Very comfortable Easy to wear Stylish SYMPTOM RADAR Minor signs of strain Now on to the stats. As someone with multiple chronic illnesses including POTS & ME I have found the strain function scary accurate. It knew I was in a flare before I did and it has ONLY ever appeared when I have truly felt horrendous the days following the alert. Readiness Rest Mode is on The improvements are real and biologically meaningful, particularly for someone managing POTS: HRV up ~19% and now consistently "Optimal" rather than "Fair" Resting heart rate is down overnight Temperature is stable - no more sustained dips Resilience is now Solid to Strong Readiness scores are 71-83 The advisor is an extremely underrated feature! For me personally it has helped me see patterns in what causes dips in my recovery, see the effects certain medications and activities have on my body, And being able to ask it to check things between certain timeframes has been a brilliant tool. For POTS specifically it isn't small quality-of-life numbers. Lower resting heart rate and better HRV directly reflect how much autonomic strain your nervous system is carrying day-to-day. The fact that your body is recovering more efficiently now is a meaningful shift. Cycle tracking has been far more useful than I expected. As someone with PMDD, being able to exactly pin point ovulation has allowed me to use my PMDD medication much more effectively. KEEPING TRACK CYCLE PHASE Follicular CHANCE OF CONCEPTION High: ovulation detected Trends and discoveries have been super insightful too! It has noticed things like sleep decreasing after my period starts which is so accurate because I struggle with insomnia during that time. I just need to get better with my tagging to get the most out of it! Maybe: Yoga 08:07 5h 53m Confirm Edit I enjoy the automatic exercise tracking feature but I will say this is one of the things that was extremely frustrating for the first few months. Because it was learning my patterns and movement it would ask me about 50 times per day if I was doing yoga STEPS PROGRESS 1,586 Making progress AVERAGE PACE 39:33 / mi STEPS 1,981 AVG HEART RATE 105 bpm The exercise tracking is probably its biggest flaw for me personally. As a disabled person I don't do a tonne of exercise but when I have, I have wore my Apple Watch to compare. It tends to miss a lot of the higher heart rates, under counts steps and sometime distance. BUT it isn't an exercise tracker ... HEART RATE Most time in Zone 1 Zone 0 3m Zone 1 18m Zone 2 7m Zone 3 2m Total sleep 8h 11m Efficiency 90% Restfulness Good REM sleep 1h 44m, 21% Deep sleep 50m, 11% Latency 23m Timing Good Key metrics TOTAL SLEEP 8h 11m TIME IN BED 9h 7m Sleep tracking is another thing that I have found very accurate. It also auto detects naps and adjusts your readiness for the rest of the day based on that which I think is great. Lasagna with side salad Dinner on 7 August Salad with cherry tomatoes an... Lasagna The meal tracking function is pretty cool for anyone who doesn't want calories at the centre of everything! You take a picture and it tells you the estimated nutritional value. Iced coffee with milk, strawberries, overnight oats and peanut butter Breakfast on 7 August Strawberries Protein powder And finally.. Having a screenless health & wellness tracker has allowed me to listen to my body way more and reduced the anxiety I felt around my health constantly seeing stats on my wrist. The battery life is brilliant Overall I absolutely would recommend for my fellow chronic illness girlies .. I just wish the exercise tracking feature was a little more accurate.