I am pretty sure I don't sleep well because I never feel rested by the time my children wake me up around 5/5:30am, even though I go to bed by 9pm and they don't usually wake me up in the night anymore. Getting the fitbit charge HR was in part to see how I sleep - and finding that I only get 4-5 hrs of sleep despite being in bed 8-9 hours seemed to "prove" that I am not sleeping well - until I turned the setting to "normal" rather than sensitive. On "normal" it shows I get 8 hours of sleep. I took the data to my pulmonologist to try and get him to send me for a sleep study (they do that in the same office) but he laughed it off and said that the app on his phone tells him he's been getting a workout when he's been sitting on his couch playing games on his phone, so my sleep tracker is probably just measuring every twitch of my arm as me being "awake." He said to go through my family doctor who will probably send me to a psychologist to test for anxiety before she would send me for a sleep study. Really?! I am just not sleeping well, I'm not up worrying about anything all night, nor do I typically feel anxious during the day. Besides I have mild asthma (hence the pulmonologist visit) so would it not be normal for him to check for breathing issues at night??!
