Vida Health 12+

Extremely impressive program

Vida is extremely impressive. I didn’t think in the past that I could keep up any diet or exercise plan. Certainly never both at once. In the last 6 months I’ve not only lost 20 lb and gotten to my ideal weight, I’ve run a half marathon and started regular meditation. All these things have become a regular part of my life that I feel enthusiastic about continuing. I won’t credit them all to Vida. I started the running program beforehand. But where I think Vida has been enormously helpful is in guiding, monitoring, and suggesting tweaks, and having someone to talk with for support. That’s been helpful to give me the confidence that I can basically manage it myself.

Needs work: the food logging, an essential function, is very slow to respond and does not allow you to easily repeat meals, which makes it extremely painful in comparison to myfitnesspal. Now I just use myfitnesspal. The program itself has extensive information about diet relative to other sources but in my opinion very little about exercise or other topics.

It takes forever to meet with a doctor. The app itself is fine

My insurance recommend me to -download this app back in May 2024 I met with a dietitian right away Sarah she was great and then they wanted me to go get labs and then after I got labs I was supposed to meet with a doctor well the lab orders never showed up in the documents and I waited and then they told me to wait because your provider was on vacation so I waited and then they said I should have the documents but wait 48 hours so after all this for four weeks, they resent the labs and then I finally got them a month later went and got my lab work done and then they let me make an appointment with the doctor and her first available was one month after that and I am supposed to have an appointment with them in July and for whatever reason it is now gone or has been canceled and the next available appointment isn’t until the end of August and none of those times work for me, because the only times available are in the morning so to finally meet with the doctor it’ll be six months after I started this. I would never pay for this service. I contact support and asked for help as it has taken over 4 months to get started and they said that all the doctors are a month or more waiting period out. I have read others randomly have their appointments cancelled too. I decided it was better to just cancel the program and delete the app. There are other apps out there better than this

Developer Response ,

Hello, please email support@vida.com so that we can help look into this.

First impression

In honesty I was very skeptical about what this was going to be since it was more of a have to thing rather than a recommendation from my Dr. for insurance to cover meds had to sign up but I decided to be optimistic. That optimism is paying off. Tons of information. New ways to keep up with diet and blood testing. Logging many other types of information is Al just another accountability measure. Still playing with the app To discover all it can do for me. Then there is the help from my dietician plus I have a new health care person I have yet to meet but that is scheduled. Reading posts from other people and seeing the questions they have also opens the gates to new questions I have and seeing how some people are handling the same issues I have is enlightening.

So far the only down points I can see is there is no way to log meds taken like amounts of insulin on a sliding scale and the food log is a little tough to get a hang of. Other than that I am very happy with this new way to help me manage my diabetes

Developer Response ,

Hi there! Thanks so much for the great review. Vida is all about equipping members with the tools that are best for them and their unique health goals and experiences. If you need a hand with any of the tools in our app, don't hesitate to reach out to support@vida.com, we'd be happy to look into ways to help with the medication and food loggers!