Reliability of Garmin Body Battery for HRV on HGH

[Sh195580]

Anyone taking HGH have abnormally low body battery readings on Garmin app?

Background:

I have been on 2iu of HGH for 30 days. I experimented with taking it a few different ways, but settled in on 30 mins pre bed as a stand alone shot for the last 3 weeks.

I sleep fine most of the time, but sometimes the carpal tunnel wakes me up. I’ve been waking up feeling fine initially, but then get very tired throughout the day.

I did gain about 2 lbs of water the first week.

My Garmin says my stress level is very high and typically my body battery stays between 5 and 15.

I’m only on 150 mg test c for trt and just started 75 mg npp for joints. The symptoms were before the npp and there haven’t been any changes since starting.

Initially I’m going to pause HGH for at least a week to see if symptoms improve, just curious if anyone else noticed the same thing.

I haven’t checked IGF1 levels yet, but if stopping relieves symptoms, I’m debating restarting at a lower dose or moving to morning injections. Worst case, either try another HGH or it may just be that HGH is not for me and I’ll be out a couple hundred bucks.

Thanks for any insights.


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[elit3keraed]

For what it’s worth, wearables are pretty bad for HRV, there was an article I read about like 2 dozen garmin devices basically failing the HRV test.

My Apple Watch HRV says 20-50 on average unless I spend a week doing literally nothing. Then it will go up to 200+ so clearly it isn’t working right

 

[harrisonm1983]

For what it’s worth, wearables are pretty bad for HRV, there was an article I read about like 2 dozen garmin devices basically failing the HRV test.

My Apple Watch HRV says 20-50 on average unless I spend a week doing literally nothing. Then it will go up to 200+ so clearly it isn’t working right

When I had an Oura my HRV was 8, then with an Apple Watch Ultra its been 40. I've heard you really need to heart based sensor if you really want reliable accuracy. It also seems like an over-hyped metric imo. That said, I remember having carpal tunnel when I started GH, and some sleep issues too. Since I usually wake up once in the middle of the night, I've actually found the best way to take it is during that period where I wake up, and then get a few more hours of deep sleep.

 

[Sh195580]

Update: Made a couple changes and I feel much better. Resting heart rate is coming down, HRV/ stress (in the Garmin app) is reduced.

I reduced my Reta to 1.5 mg for the last 2 shots and over 10 days in now, so overall concentration should be down.

Also changed my GH administration to IM shots (2iu) in the morning for the last 4 days.

Not sure if it was the 5mg/ week of Reta that was messing with my sleep/ HRV, but body battery is slowly coming up and overall I feel better.


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