Understanding symptom types and how they affect insights
Symptoms in Human Health are categorized into two main types. How you log them affects both your daily symptom check-ins and the trends shown on your Insights page.
When viewing your symptom via the Insights page, Ongoing Impact creates a smoothed trendline between your impact score. Occasional Events will display a singular activity on your chart only across the days it was logged and assume no trend. Both symptom types use the same 0–4 impact scale from 'No Impact' through to 'Substantial'.
1. Ongoing impact (Generally impact most days)
These are symptoms you experience every day or most days, such as fatigue or anxiety that affects your daily functioning.
Enter a single overall score for each symptom, per day.
Impact on Insights:
We track changes in impact over time. For example, 17% decrease in fatigue in the last week.
We create a smooth trendline between your logged events.
2. Occasional events (Symptoms that come and go)
These are symptoms that come and go at specific times, like headaches or cramps.
Log each event separately with its impact.
You may have multiple events in a single day. E.g. headache at 2:17pm and 6:39pm.
Impact on Insights:
- We track how often these symptoms occur and they appear as individual instances.
- On days that you don't log there will be no impact to Insights and the trendline goes to 0 between days.
- The more frequently you log them, the higher their impact score.
Tip: Occasional Event symptoms can optionally include a time, though we recommend logging them whenever they happen to get the most accurate Insights. If no time is set, it will appear as “Not set” rather than being assigned a default time.
You can change how a symptom is tracked, either as an ongoing impact or occasional event symptom, at any time. When you do, future logs will follow the new tracking type.