Sleep sensitivity...what the?!

[AliK94]

So I've always had problems staying asleep... I can't ever remember sleeping through all night. I got my fitbit at Christmas and have tried it with the normal and sensitive settings, to find the results are COMPLETELY different. I get sleep paralysis alot so thought it would be interesting to see how much sleep I was actually getting. My sleep efficiency on normal mode is 94% (and I'm still shattered), but my sleep efficiency on sensitive is 37%. On the sensitive setting it says I get no more than 3 1/2 hours sleep, and on normal it is around 8 1/2. Could someone please help me as to why these figures are so different? I wake up overtired everyday, it doesn't matter how much sleep I get (or think i'm getting!).

Thanks,

Ali

[RogerRoger]

Same for me. I wake constantly through the night and got a fitbit around 10 days ago (Xmas). First night with it on had an appaling night, I know I was awake for hours but it said I'd had 9.5 hours' sleep! Yeah right.

So I put it on high sensitive and it's now telling me as little as 2 hrs 55min (last night). I know I'm somwhere in between (although closer to to the lower figure sadly). The settings seem to be two extremes, but on high sensitive it only reports me as 'awake' if I actually get out of bed (for a wee!)

I think it someone needs to do some tweaking!

[RogerRoger]

Time to fall asleep is nonsense as well.

This pic from last night states zero minutes to fall asleep. Well I know for a fact I listened to a podcast for twenty minutes!

[AliK94]

Completely the same with me. Think it needs a middle ground, they are very extreme.

I'm taking mine back, as it's not giving accurate readings. Thanks.

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[RogerRoger]

i think I'll hang on to mine, but it seems to confuse 'still' with 'sleeping'. 

I download a sleep app for my phone which I'm going to try tonight and see how the readings compare.

[AliK94]

It's not recording my exercise properly either. I did an hour of bodypump tonight and it said I'd done a 17 minute run! Haha maybe it's just a funny watch but I'll speak to them at the store.

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[RogerRoger]

I've just reaing the 'About Sleep tracking' post which states:

Remember, it's important to put the device into sleep mode as you're getting into bed, and take it out of sleep mode once you're waking up

I don't even know how to do that! So maybe that's where we're going wrong?

[AliK94]

I think that's on a different watch. Mine is the charge 2 and it says it automatically records it? Confusing ha

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[RogerRoger]

Yes maybe you're right.

Mine's a Charge HR and now I've looked online it mentions nothing about sleep mode.

Mine cleverly worked out when I was cycling though, so that was impressive. I wonder if they need a bit more time to learn?

I may try switching mine back to normal as that's what's recommended but I've not had 9.5 hours' sleep since I was in nappies so if it tells me that again then it's pretty useless.

[AliK94]

Yeah mine were so different. 3.5 hours compared to 9 when on normal mode!!

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