Sense - skin temperature shows in the negatives

[Carole_annn]

I have been wearing my sense for a week now and the skin temperature feature is in the negatives. Last night was -1.1 degrees and the night before that was -1.9 degrees. Is there a problem with my device?

Moderator Edit: Clarified subject and updated label

[SunsetRunner]

Mine was in the negitive two nights now.  Sat it was -0.3 deg and on Sun it was -0.8 deg. Today it says it is +1 deg above base line.

[Drew_Watkinson]

You are mis reading the stat. You are down 1.1 degrees from your baseline. 
You are not being told you are a frozen person. 

[TomasD76]

🤣🤣

[Carole_annn]

It says my baseline is 0 degrees. Apparently my sense is judging me 😂

[Drew_Watkinson · Accepted solution]

Your Fitbit is not displaying your temperature PERIOD!!!!!

it took a baseline reading that took 3 days to register. For an example let’s say your baseline is 100 after 3 days(this is not displayed)

On day 4 let’s say you were 100 again. This will give you a read out of 0 because you did not go up or down from your baseline. 
On day 5 let’s say you only hit 99. This will give you a reading of -1. 
On day 6 let’s say you hit 101. This will give a read out of +1. 
Again your Fitbit is not telling you your temperature. It is telling you about a change in temperature. 

[Carole_annn]

Oh!!!!! Okay! That makes more sense! I was under the impression that it was suppose to tell me my temperature. I understand now! Thank you so much! 

[BlazeFS]

It's not as useful of a feature as I thought it would be. I sleep on both my back and left side. When I sleep on my back, my arm is warm and cozy under the covers. When I sleep on my side, my wrist is just above the covers. The skin temperature feature is very good at telling me whether I slept more on my back (temp goes up) or my side (temp goes down). A bit of both leaves me close to baseline. I'm curious to see if it detects temperature changes due to my cycle or illness, but it will take a while to gather that data.

[Drmarkz]

 I read that your cycle does change your baseline. 

[Jen_5]

I’m not clear, nor do many seem clear on what these features on Sense are actually useful for. Lol 

[Albertorr]

Thanks Drew. I think I understood your explanation and that is useful but essentially, do you know what the fluctuation from the baseline info is actually useful for? What should I think if my temperature fluctuates from baseline +2 one night then -2 a few nights later?

[Drew_Watkinson]

Good timing on this question. I had my 2nd Covid shot last week and was told I may run a bit of a fever from it. 
From baseline I jumped up almost 4 degrees and stayed that way for 2 days before going back to a plus or minus 1 degree that I normally do. 
So watching this stat can show when you may be getting sick. 

[NotoriousCat]

I think many of us made the same assumption you did. Therefore it's not intuitive... really a User Design Interface issue that Fitbit make want to take note of.

[Meshee]

I literally LAUGHED OUT LOUD! *not a frozen person*🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[EMZ8516]

Where do you find what your baseline is? And can it be reset? 

[brenley765]

Hi super quick question. My skin temp has been elevated 3.5 all week what’s that mean 

[eezeepee]

@brenley765 Welcome to the Fitbit community

Maybe this can help.

https://help.fitbit.com/articles/en_US/Help_article/2458.htm 

Fever is a possibility but if you're feeling well and your oral temp is normal, it would be the other factors listed. 

[sharlotte89]

Do you know if there is a way to see what the baseline temperature actually is? I have found the section that shows the variations (which also thank you for explaining because I originally came here for that question), but would like to know what it reads my baseline as. 

[Guy_]

Hi @sharlotte89 - it's answered in the article given by @eezeepee above.

[MommaS15]

curious, were you pregnant? I’m not looking to have babies but I know a consistent spike can be a sign of pregnancy.