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Sleep Efficiency...shocked but what to do?

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  • ahernep
    ahernep Posts: 1 Member
    Hi All,

    New to this and still trying to figure out if my Fitbit flex is accurate or not, I'm pretty sure on "Normal" mode it is not totally accurate as it reports a few minutes of restlessness when I know I was fully awake. That said, I'm hoping "Sensitive" mode is over reacting and I'm somewhere between the 2 in reality. If anyone is using the fitbit flex and is confident that they sleep well if they could post their sleep pattern while on "Sensitive" I'd be greatly appreciative!

    Thanks!
  • oboeing
    oboeing Posts: 1,816 Member
    No sleep apnea. I don't snore at all. DH snores. I sleep with ear plugs in. I will say that I'm wondering if part of it isn't our mattress. It's not even seven years old but it's just not that comfortable anymore to me. I guess I keep thinking sometime in the next year we'll replace it. But since it's a pillow top, we can't flip it. We just built a house and moved in a couple of months ago. I don't have window treatments yet. But it was like this before we moved. This is how I've been for a few years it feels like.

    I honestly don't remember the last time I went to bed and slept through the entire night. I remember waking up at least once.

    It is set to sensitive because after I bought my fitbit, I'd read that the normal setting wasn't sensitive enough. Now I don't know what to set it on! LOL!

    This was me. I don't snore. I haven't slept through the night in years. I can fall asleep no problem, but toss and turn all night, and i am awake enough to be aware of it.

    so i got a sleep study anyway, even though i don't snore. guess what? sleep apnea. i don't snore, the test proved that. but my O2 levels dropped to 91% while i sleep (they should be around 97%), so my body was waking me up because it was oxygen deprived.

    now i have a cpap. .

    point being... get a sleep study done. hopefully it will rule some things out for you, and at least get you on a path to sleeping.
  • aylajane
    aylajane Posts: 979 Member
    Echoing what someone else said - use it for comparison mostly. Get a few weeks of data under you and make notes in the morning on what was a "good" night and what was a "bad" night. Mine numbers are horrible - total bed time about 5-6 hrs, total sleep time 1-3 hrs. I keep it on senstive. I know I am getting more sleep than that - it just tracks movement, specifically of your arm. Apparently I am a bit of a "flailer" at night. But I dont care what actual numbers it says - i look at the peak/valley patterns and groupings. A "good" night for me always has them evenly spaced regardless of how often they occur. A "bad" night for me is when all the waking times are grouped and irregular.

    I have years of data to look at, and I can now look back at any one of them and say "that is where I went to the bathroom", "that was a nightmare" , that was a restless night, that was a sound sleep, etc. Ignore then numbers, get to know which ones are "good" for you and use that as the benchmark to judge the others.

    Now, what to do to change the bad ones into good ones... still working that out :)
  • DianeinCA
    DianeinCA Posts: 307 Member
    I thought I had some kind of sleep disorder after monitoring my sleep via my Fitbit (and knowing that I was still tired in the mornings): how many times I got up, how restless I seemed to be... I was all prepared to set up a sleep study.

    Then I went to a conference and spent the night without my husband. The numbers in the morning were completely different.

    I'm definitely getting a new mattress, one that has motion control (possibly a tempurpedic or a latex).

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