Restlessness?

[iamlionheart]

Hey, guys. I just wanted to see what everyone's restlessness through the night tends to be. It looks like I'm restless anywhere from 10-30x in the night. Not sure what to compare it to.

[iamlionheart]

I've just been keeping an eye out on what makes for more or less restlessness. Earplugs, waking up earlier the day before has helped, and going to bed earlier has helped some.

[chfui]

Assuming the FB data is accurate it helps in you can see if actions you
take help improve the quality of your sleep. Sleep studies have show
people don't have a good sense of what occured while they were
asleep/tossing/awake in bed. I try to go through the list of suggestions
one can find by searching the internet for how to get better sleep and see
if they do anything. I.e., try one thing for a week, compare that week to
your baseline, try a different thing for a week, etc.

[iamlionheart]

Anything that you've tried out that seem to help the most?

[chfui]

Talk to your primary care doctor about it is the only way as far as I
know. Kind of depends on the dr and how insurance is setup, etc. I'm not
totally enthused about my chance to get one from Kaiser for instance.

[chfui]

Not really. Melatonin didn't do much for me, but I don't have a problem
falling asleep, just that I toss and turn a lot and don't seem to get a lot
of deep sleep. Earplugs were a bit helpful. I had to use the silicon kind
and not the foam kind that go in your ear as those hurt after a while.
Body pillow was also kind of helpful. I'm a rail so laying on my side I
tend to tip one way or the other without a pillow for support at which
point my neck would hurt and wake me up. Mostly just try things in a
consistent way for a week and see if there is any change. I'm going to try
talking to my dr about sleeping pills, not for long term, but to see if I
can get a nice night of sleep based on FB data and then see how I feel the
next day, which would validate (or not) that the FB data is a good metric
for gauging how my sleep was.

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[iamlionheart]

I see. I have a hard time falling asleep. I tend to stay up pretty late. When I wake up, it just feels like I haven't gotten any restful sleep. Weekends are better since I'm able to sleep in a bit later. I've been trying to curb my bedtime a little bit earlier, but still working on that.

[Willpower]

Why does this matter-just a rhetorical question !   Everyone is restless during the night . If you don't want to be restless drink a pint of whiskey before you go to bed-this will "cure" your restlessness.  On a personal level, I have prostrate problems (on medication) and I still get up several times  a night to use the bathroom.  I'm sure that I am "restless" many times during the night.  I think that this is a worthless statistic and if you are purchasing a fitbit product for this information you are wasting your money !

[iamlionheart]

Drinking makes me more restless through the night; I usually wake up once or twice on nights I drink. I was comparing the level of restlessness from 10-30x.

[kkthnxbii]

one night i got 41x during one sleep session, and then about 20x for the reminaing 3 hours of sleep

[iamlionheart]

Okay. Now, maybe I should be skeptical of the people saying they're being restless <5x a night. The average seems to be 20x or so a night so far.

[kelfran]

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@iamlionheart wrote:

Drinking makes me more restless through the night; I usually wake up once or twice on nights I drink. I was comparing the level of restlessness from 10-30x.

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I agree. I used to be the favorite guest at parties in my college days because drinking heavily makes it impossible for me to sleep for more than ~3-4 hours. I would pop awake in the wee hours and start throwing away bottles and cleaning up.

Having more than 1-2 drinks still destroys my sleep , but at least it gives me a reason to be healthier and not drink so much .

[kelfran]

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@iamlionheart wrote:

Okay. Now, maybe I should be skeptical of the people saying they're being restless <5x a night. The average seems to be 20x or so a night so far.

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I wouldn't be too skeptical. I guarantee you that if I put my Fitbit on my husband, his stats would say he fell asleep after 0 to 1 minute and was restless 2-3x per night. The man is like a bear in hibernation when he sleeps (so jealous).

[iamlionheart]

Yeah, I've scaled down to 1-3 drinks through the night hanging out with people. Drinking just makes me tired now. Super lame. 

[iamlionheart]

Lol, you should strap it to him and see what happens.

[DScott]

Last night it took me 1 1/2 hr just to get to sleep... or so Fitbit says.  And I only got 2 1/2 hr of real sleep.  I tried a hot shower before bed, lights out the same time each night, etc.  And I even took 10mg Ambien. The only thing I did last night was use my laptop before turning the lights out.  I'd been trying to avoid that but I was in bed and remembered there was something I needed to do. 

Actually feel okay this morning and not as drained as normal, so I'm just wondering if the sensitive setting is picking up my restless legs.  Shows I was restless 16x which is actually normal for every night, but that restlessness was 364 minutes!  Even wierder is that Fitbit recorded that I actually made steps in the middle of the night several times!!!  I don't sleep walk... never have... and didn't even get up to go to the bathroom. 

The most sleep I've had recorded all week is 3 times I had over 5 hours... and all 3 nights I was in sleep mode for over 7 1/2 hours.

[iamlionheart]

I turned off my lights and went to bed around 12:45am and my sleep log for last night started just right before 1am. I woke up sometime in the early morning, but went back to sleep and woke at 9am for work. My FitBit recorded sleep up to 9am and there was a long moment of restlessness before my second wake-up. I totaled 39x restlessness but only 59 mins. I feel pretty good today. I'll still have my afternoon coffee probably for the gym later. I don't drink any in the morning though.

[colin99]

This is on sensitive mode: 

03/25 - 3:20 sleep 15 restless

03/24 - 2:12 sleep 12 restless

03/23 - 3:39 sleep 13 restless

03/22 - 3:33 sleep 14 restless

03/21 - 2:26 sleep 11 restless (48 minutes to fall asleep)

03/20 - 3:24 sleep 12 restless

If I check the "normal" version of the data, the restlessness gets into the 20 per night range. On the 3+ hour nights, I think I sleep more than sensitive mode says but less than normal mode. The 2 and less nights seem to be fairly realistic; those are nights that I typically lie awake for hours. With me, a lot of it is stress and anxiety - that's definitely what happened on 03/21 where I finally got up and took a sleeping pill. 

[EdsonFitbit]

Yesterday I had 15 times of restlessness. When I woke up today I didn't need a cup of coffee, I was perky and ready to start a new day!  btw, I am in normal mode.

[Blakes]

im restless 10-35 times most nights. i dont really pay it a lot of mind, i watch the awake slots .

[iamlionheart]

Anything good that helped you sleep/wake up better?