The journal function within the WHOOP app has proved rather unhelpful for me. I have numerous chronic illnesses, and a big reason I was eager to try WHOOP was to see if I could identify any correlations between certain health metrics and my likelihood of experiencing a negative symptom/flare-up. Instead, I get things like this:
(Useless, sorry…)
I strongly encourage the WHOOP team to incorporate some kind of feature where you can easily look at historical trends of when you recorded a specific symptom in your journal (and the severity, if applicable). I was recently asked by my doctor if I could recall the date and severity of my last migraine — which is something I always record in my journal — but there was no easy way to quickly check that.
I would LOVE if there were a way to generate some kind of visual report of when I report symptoms over time, and overlay that report on top of different biometric trends (such as HRV, RHR, etc.). I acknowledge that WHOOP is not a substitute for medical advice, and it can’t just wake up one morning and magically tell me that I’m going to have dizziness or joint pain that day. But if you could at least give the users the ability to deduce those correlations ourselves, it might end up having some predictive value. Otherwise, I really don’t see much of a point in logging my symptoms in the journal; it only seems useful for behavioral/environmental factors.
TL;DR — Please expand journal capabilities for chronic illness, and display historical symptom trends and frequency. I would love to investigate those patterns, and see if/how they relate to my health metrics.