Restless 16x a night?

[Cassie90]

I'm new to Fitbit. I've purchased a Fitbix Flex in an attempt to track my sleep and if I get on with it, I plan on upgrading to a model that features a heart rate monitor. The main reason for wanting a Fitbit is to get some sort of idea of my sleep.

I've used the Fitbit for two nights now, and I seem to have some quite varied results on both the sensitive and normal settings. On the sensitive setting, I have had 22x and 24x restless periods, 4x and 6x awake, and slept for 3hr22min the first, and 3hr46min the second night.

On the normal setting, I have had 16x restless the first night, 14x restless the second, 2x and 2x awake and slept for 8hr30min and 8hr52min.

The sensitive setting seems to be too sensitive, and the normal, too normal, if that makes sense? When I wake in the morning I am stuffy and shattered, I know I have not slept for almost nine hours like the normal setting says. I also wear a mouth guard at night as I grind my teeth quite badly.

I just would like to get an idea of what I'm doing at night, is 16x restless periods, even on the normal setting, normal? There is some quite wild variation between the two settings so I'm not sure what to think!

Thank you!

[shipo]

@Cassie90, I routinely change sides during the night and when I look at my sleep log, set to "Normal", I see an average of 22 restless events per night.  The thing is, I could care less how many restless events I have, all I really care about is my "Sleep Efficiency"; I find if I'm anywhere above 90% I've had a pretty good night's sleep.

Last night was a little unsettled:

This was a much more restful night:

[HelenaFitbit]

I have a really restless sleep, my logs are crazy! 

Here's a random week:

In this case, @shipo's tip to work on sleep efficiency and adapting your environment to help you get a good night's sleep. Leave your sleep settings on sensitive; IMHO it's giving you more things to take into consideration rather than the normal setting which shows as "too normal".