See also: Visible
✅ Potential Benefits
- Pacing and Energy Management (PEM Prevention)
- Tracking heart rate and heart rate variability (HRV) can help you recognize when your body is nearing overexertion.
- Many people with CFS use their wearable to identify their “anaerobic threshold” — staying below it helps avoid post-exertional malaise (PEM).
- Apps like Visible, Fatigue Science, or Oura’s readiness scores can help visualize recovery vs. strain.
Sleep Monitoring
- Chronic fatigue often includes non-restorative sleep. A wearable can track sleep stages and total rest to help identify whether you’re getting adequate deep or REM sleep.
Symptom Awareness and Data for Providers
- Tracking daily metrics (steps, HR, temperature, sleep) provides objective data to discuss with your clinician and correlate with symptom flares.
Biofeedback and Routine Regulation
- Wearables can prompt mindful rest, breathing exercises, or reminders to hydrate and stretch—helpful for pacing and grounding.
⚠️ Cautions
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Data Overload or Anxiety: Over-tracking can increase anxiety or lead to “pushing to meet numbers,” which worsens fatigue.
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Accuracy Limitations: Consumer devices vary widely in HRV and sleep accuracy. Use them for trends, not exact values.
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Battery and Sensory Sensitivity: Some people with CFS/ME are sensitive to pressure or EMF; comfort and tolerance vary.
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Interpretation Requires Context: Wearables can’t capture the full complexity of immune, mitochondrial, or autonomic issues in CFS.
💡 Practical Tips
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If using the Visible app (the CFS-specific one, available on iOS/Android), it integrates with Fitbit, Apple Watch, or Oura and helps track “crash days,” PEM, and pacing.
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Track RPE (Rate of Perceived Exertion) alongside wearable data — how you feel matters as much as what the numbers say.
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Share summaries with your clinician to support graded pacing, not graded exercise.
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Jane Leu Rekas, LCSW
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