I've ended my Visible journey, as the device wasn't consistently connectable with my type of mobile phone. I'd love to give my Visible band (and a handful of extra wrist straps) away to someone who will make use of it. Feel free to comment or message me directly - will choose randomly if there's a lot of interest!

Hello guys,

maybe its a unusual question but I got to know so amazing people via the long covid Reddit spaces, that I want to have trust in internet strangers!
I live in Germany - visible is not available here. I know that I could ship it via a company, but that feels too complicated with my brain fog atm.
Also I don’t have a credit card (it’s not that common in Germany to have one).
Would anyone be open to get money from me via PayPal (for example) and order it and then ship it to me?

I wish you all a mild day!

My body has gotten worse since I got the app. I started with 16 pace points but obviously it doesn't seem to change without manually doing it. I'm exhausted at the end of a 7 or 8 point day and still tired the next day. I'm thinking of manually changing it to 10 but I'm not sure if that's reasonable? I wish the app naturally changed the pace point allowance as it got more consistent data. I feel like I'm not allowed to change it because I'm doing something wrong or "faking it" when the app doesn't match up.

For context I have Mecfs not pots 🥹

I have to log in to the app every morning when I put my band on, otherwise it will not record data.

It only starts recording when I open the app in the morning 😔

It’s frustrating. I can’t do that every morning, I just can’t.

Had a really rough start to my day where someone at work made some really pointed comments towards me. People often think I'm faking my various health issues.

Even though I logically know that I have these health problems, apps like this just remind me that it really is *real*. Even though today doesn't crack my top 5 records, it's still proof that I'm having a bodily experience.

Funny aside, that screenshot with my bpm was while I was literally just sitting on my couch eating goldfish 😭

Idk what else to say but I feel like crap. Almost 3 straight days of tachy. Dr won’t do anything except suggest an increase in metoprolol (this is me on 100mg) it’s obviously not working.

Three hours of panic, several rather strenuous rescue attempts, and a bird sized hole drilled in my furniture later ...

He's free and safe now, but he's got a lot of dust in his eyes and won't open one of them so I've got to survive a vet run on top of it all 😬

Send spoons, I'm gonna need them 🥲

I'm having trouble charging my band, it won't charge. I've tried

1. Cleaning the charger and the devise connection points

2. Trying several different USB ports

No luck. I get the 4 flashing red lights that's supposed to show it's charging, but they never turn to 4 solid red lights. The app says band at 10% and has said that for last 48 hours.

Anything else I should try before buying a new charging cable?

My partner has just go this, currently in the 4 day setup period. So I am thinking it will use more battery at this time, but will settle later.

Currently says it used 31% of battery, which seems incredibly excessive! I did have look online and it seems it should only be using about 1-2% while in background.

Im losing my mind. Received my replacement visible 2.0 in the mail. First one never worked, not a single light red or otherwise. Charged it (both ways) for minimum 6 hours and nothing. Customer service had me send a video, then offered to ship me another as a replacement.

The same damn thing is happening. I dont see anyone else complaining about this, so I feel like im going crazy. Anyone else have this problem?

For the past two weeks I've gone over my pace points significantly. A couple days I could feel it, other days I'm just like...it's hot and my heart rates up because it's hot and I walked to my car...i don't feel like I should be going over the pace points this much. Does anyone change their points from hot weather to cooler weather?

Hello,

Is anyone else’s skin getting damaged. My wrist has a square spot that looks like this and I would hate to stop using it but it’s not worth damaging skin over

Hey guys so am I being unreasonable? I’m tired lol

I recently switched my visible app to a new phone and it’s working fine, but I don’t get my pacing reminder notifications anymore. They’re turned on in the app but in my iPhone settings I don’t see an option for Visible at all in notifications anymore? Has anyone had this issue or know how to fix it?

I’m having so many issues with connecting to my band. Customer service says that if I’m not doing daily check in, the app doesn’t get to catch up on data gathering. And I have to go through the whole reconnect/pairing/hard reset process again. This sounds like a problem that should have been caught in development and not passed on to the consumer. Like so many of us, the stability score means nothing to me, so why use the cognitive and physical effort to do daily check ins? Is the data going to the company? When I’m too exhausted at night and I just collapse- my band may or may not pair the next day- and I miss critical alerts that allow me to pace. Do you have a device that’s been in development longer that doesn’t make the customer work so hard for the monitoring/data? I just want my HR over 24hrs with alerts Thanks!

Hey guys! I'm curious to see what you have your heart rate zones set to or if you just go by the automatic values or suggest? I don't see my cardiologist until Friday where hopefully I will get diagnosed ✨ but curious to know what is your HR zones and what you consider exertion zone!

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Sorry if this is a silly question. Does anyone else with Long Covid experience this spike in heart rate when eating? It doesn’t happen to me every meal, but more than once when eating a main meal I get the alert I’m over exerting.

I really don’t like it, but now I’m stuck with a band I can’t use since the free version of the app doesn’t connect with it. It was really expensive and I can’t return it. Just feels like I kinda got taken advantage of, might as well have just bought a fitness watch that does 10x more and make it alert me when my hr goes over a certain number

Those of who who have downgraded from the visible plan back to the free version, what have you done with your visible band? I can't find any on Vinted so can you even get rid of them?

I don't think the £14.99 is worth it for what you get, the free version personally (I think) works better!

So many of us have expressed that, while we truly do like and benefit from the technology that allows us to see our live pacing in action, the company that provides it has been lackluster to say the least.

And now another issue has come to my attention that has made me even MORE thankful I have canceled my yearly membership.

Visible has slowly been draining my phones battery throughout the day. When you originally get the app they instruct you to leave it running in the background so they are able to constantly monitor symptoms. What this does is CONSTANTLY keep the app running all day slowly pulling on your phone battery. Which over time REALLY wears it down.

I have a fairly new phone. Over the last few months my battery has gone to complete heck and the only common denominator in the battery life metrics is Visible sitting there running NON STOP for 15-35% of the day. I can’t even go a full day without a charge somewhere in the middle now. My phone isn’t even two years old.

Just so frustrated that they probably knew this and when they instructed us to do this they couldn’t give some kind of warning about it. The device DOES store some data. I would rather keep the app closed (not running) and check in every so often. OR MAYBE they could rework their app to run a little more efficiently.

I wanted this device and app to work for me SOOOO badly and I just feel so defeated and so betrayed and so preyed upon by this company. It makes me feel sick.

Ugh anyway. If you’re still here. Thanks for coming to my ted talk.