Printing Sleep Schedule

[Erica2busy]

I am using the Versa on my daughter to get sleep logs since she potentially has a circadian rhythm disorder called "Sighted Non-24" or "Hypernychthemeral Syndrome". I love the fact that my phone shows her sleep pattern - which is a staircase...since Non-24 sufferers operate on a 25-hour sleep cycle while everyone else operates on a 24-hour sleep cycle. Unfortunately, this data cannot be shown on the fitbit.com dashboard. But more importantly. is there any function for me to print out her sleep schedule pattern? That's what I need to provide to the doctors to show her sleep logs. So far, I have been manually adding it to an excel spreadsheet....but it would be great if I didn't have to do that to minimize human error.

[Odyssey13]

Hi @Erica2busy

Just finished reading about "Hypernychthemeral Syndrome" since I didn't know much about it. I can see your need to show your daughter's sleep cycle to her physician. How old is your daughter? These devices use our ages to determine certain things, such as stride length.

Do you have access to a computer where you can view your daughter's sleep in a full page? If so, you can take screen shots and print those to show the doctor.

If you feel comfortable doing it, why not give your doctor the log in information, so he can see the stats while you're in the office or if he wants to monitor her sleep.

Sorry this might not be what you're looking for. It seems you're a diligent mother who wants the best for your dear girl. Glad she has you in her life.

[avocadotoast · Accepted solution]

You can export sleep data from the fitbit.com dashboard into a .csv or .xls Excel file so that you don't have to do it manually.

Go to your fitbit.com dashboard and click the gear icon on the top right, and click "Settings." Select "Data Export" in the menu on the left. Click the option of using "the old data export tool". From there you can download the sleep data.

It doesn't have it in a nice graph, but it will give you the following headings:

Start Time, End Time, Minutes Asleep, Minutes Awake, Number of Awakenings, Time in Bed, Minutes REM Sleep, Minutes Light Sleep, Minutes Deep Sleep

[Odyssey13]

Sweet @avocadotoast

Thanks! I'm sure this will help others, too!

[Erica2busy]

Hi @Odyssey13

Thank you for your response. My daughter is 11 but she can wear my clothes lol. I want to try to help her in managing this issue since it can lead to depression.

I have taken screenshots on my phone since the dashboard does not show the sleep log like it does on the phone. But I was hoping to get a larger view of her sleep pattern since doctors generally like to see 48 days of sleep activity. Doctors here just want the logs....long are the days of doctors who are super interactive lol.

[Erica2busy]

Thank you @avocadotoast, 

That's exactly what I have been doing. I was just hoping it was a simpler way to reproduce the graph to show her pattern. I guess I should just appreciate the fact I can get that data for her since many sleep labs won't work with children in the home to perform a sleep study.

[Odyssey13]

Your daughter has you to help her with this @Erica2busy and it's good you realize she might get depressed. She's pretty young, but she must be tall!

It's not the best way to get the logs to your doctor, bit at least you can show him something. I agree that not all doctors are as attentive as they used to be, but their world is changing, too. Mine keeps wanting to be in contact via some web site where I can see my medical history. I haven't tried going there because I prefer one on one contact to be human to human and not one computer to a data bank of history.

Hope all goes well with your sweet girl.