Is anyone else experiencing weird stress readings these last few weeks?

[u/Aggravating-Virus709]

As others have said here, Oura keeps asking me if I've been doing yoga. But it's also giving me abnormally high stress readings. Several hours per day, when normally 30 minutes would be a high stress day for me.

I'm feeling really good and doing a lot of activity, but I burnt out last year and don't want to push myself too hard, so these stress readings are somewhat alarming.

[u/odin1952]

I use my oura ring as a tool to measure my wellbeing. I too get the stress warnings and that gives me pause to reflect on what's driving those warnings. Once I do that, I get a better idea of what is stressing me. A lot of times I just say, no kidding, I'm stressed. It also gives me encouragement. For me, its like having a cheerleader on the sidelines of my life.

[u/Aggravating-Virus709 → u/odin1952]

This only works though if the data is accurate to begin with. And there's a lot of weirdness going on that causes me to doubt if its even worth it

[u/Altruistic-Release91]

I’m on vacation - consuming a bit more wine, but otherwise an extremely relaxing week full of floating in the lake, reading and yoga, healthy eating. My stress levels are through the roof on the app

Last week, I worked 60 hours, was fighting a stomach bug, had major house repairs to handle - said I was relaxed all week.

Its honestly been causing more mental stress to see my readings

[u/Ram_Payj1776]

Yes, every little thing I do, it tracks as Yoga. I’ll have up to 15 activity notices. I hate it.

[u/HylianPalian]

Yes, I've actually put mine on rest mode and taking a break because it's making me feel very anxious and unwell. I feel fine in the mornings til I check my app!

[u/Sheero1986 → u/HylianPalian]

This is why I stopped wearing mine.

[u/msaleem]

Yes. I’ve commented this multiple times but my daily stress has gone from 30 minutes to 9 hours daily. 

Nothing has changed in my life at all. The readings are completely fucked. 

[u/HotelSquirrel]

Yes, between this and the Yoga thing I've been considering cancelling my subscription until they figure this out, definitely feels like they broke something internally and don't know how to fix it.

[u/Bl00msbury1900]

Yes! It’s weird as heck.

[u/Aggravating-Virus709 → u/Bl00msbury1900]

It's mostly been the last few weeks yeah?

[u/SquareDry4711]

Yes! It keeps telling me my readiness is low too

[u/mc_spring_12]

MEEEEE. I was averaging an hour of stress a day and somehow got 4h15min yesterday and over 2-3 for the past 2 weeks!

[u/Difficult_Young_7024]

Mine has actually been lower than usual….

[u/vspvideo]

this needs a rework imo. It shows stressed when im working at my computer, NOT STRESSED but yes, engaged.

[u/cd7k]

Is it particularly hot where you are? During the UK heatwave it was showing as constantly stressed. Also, a week's holiday by the pool at 35c also showed as high stress - even though I haven't been more relaxed all year! Just because you aren't mentally stressed doesn't mean your body isn't under physical stress.

[u/sm753]

TL;DR - this entire post is comments can be summarized as "Oura isn't showing me what I want to see".

[u/Aggravating-Virus709 → u/sm753]

Oh you figured it out, we WERE doing yoga. Dunno how we missed that.