Surge showing 'sleep' when awake?

[kiarrith]

Hello!

I have a rough time getting to sleep [I take melatonin at varying amounts sometimes, which can help but is not foolproof], but my  new Surge thinks I fall asleep the moment I lay down, even when i shift, change sides every 5 minutes etc [it says Im restlessly asleep during this point, but I know I am not, because I check the time every so often].  likewise if I lay down to read it thinks I am asleep.

It's set the normal. should i set it to sensitive or would that do the opposite? [its only my nondominant hand, and set accordingly]

Thanks!

Karen

[Colinm39]

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@kiarrith wrote:

Hello!

I have a rough time getting to sleep [I take melatonin at varying amounts sometimes, which can help but is not foolproof], but my  new Surge thinks I fall asleep the moment I lay down, even when i shift, change sides every 5 minutes etc [it says Im restlessly asleep during this point, but I know I am not, because I check the time every so often].  likewise if I lay down to read it thinks I am asleep.

It's set the normal. should i set it to sensitive or would that do the opposite? [its only my nondominant hand, and set accordingly]

Thanks!

Karen

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@kiarrith Welcome from a long term Fitbitter. All Fitbits have a tendency to do that and that is why we can change a sleep record to an activity record and vice versa.  Setting the sleep to sensitive just exaggerates the graph, but you can swap between that at any time when you view your graph in the Sleep, Log by editing and saving.  No need to make a permanent change at this stage.

My Surge and Charge HR will do that, the other night I was watching TV and I had the Charge HR on my wrist and there it was a sleep record so I just deleted it.

Did you have the Workout set to on on the Surge ? or was it just detecting very low activity ?

Also the other evening my sleep record showed 59 minutes at the start as restless and then sleep.

Do you know how to create an activity record, which is a copy of your data and then you can look at the calories recorded in one minute increments.

If you haven't done that before. go to your Log, Activities and click on the Large Stopwatch and enter the time period. and update.

You then click on the small stopwatch near the description and analyse your data.

Let's see how you go with that and some other Fitbitters in the Community can also guide us.