Tracking Specific Times of Elevated Heart Rate or Awake Time

[jethroD]

Hi, I'm thinking of purchasing a Fitbit (Versa 3, Charge 4, Sense?!?). I will be using it SPECIFICALLY for tracking sleep, not much else. So I just want to see if it will be able to do what I'm seeking before spending the money and wasting the time.

I struggle with 2 issues I'd like to be able to track as accurately as possible:

• Excessive tossing from one side to the other.
• Being awoken in early morning, sometimes accompanied by elevated heart rate (e.g., waking from a 'stress' dream).

- I'm guessing it should be relatively easy to see when & how often I'm tossing from one side to the other, correct?

- How accurately can you see when you have an instance of elevated heart rate (not quite a mini panic-attack, but dreaming of running real hard)? Do you see the specific time of elevation and when it returns to 'normal'?

- If you wake up but are staying still (trying desperately to get back to sleep), is there any manual way that you can indicate that you're definitely awake, possibly repeating on occasion if still awake? E.g, tapping the screen, twisting your wrist rapidly, etc.?

- Can you add notes to logs for specific days after-the-fact (maybe add some comments about what happened during the night)?

Being able to see if there is a pattern as to when I'm waking up, and how often I'm staying awake, will be very helpful in seeing what's going on. The last thing I want to do when I'm awoken in the night is remove my eye mask, look at a bright clock, and try to remember times to make notes in the morning! I'm fighting to stay as 'asleep' as possible ; )

And if there are other devices that might do this better, I'm wide open.

THANKS!

[emili]

you can use this help article  to answer most of your questions. I will say that a fitbit isn't a sleep device, although it gives sleep data. It also isn't a heart monitor, although it will give you your RHR. The items you mention seem to be a sleep study of sorts and I am not sure that is what Fitbit is designed for. 

[jethroD]

Thanks for the response. I understand that the devices aren't specifically designed for my purpose. But in all my searching, there doesn't appear to be much else that I'm finding that's better suited. The FitBit devices tend to be recommended by a lot of articles about sleep tracking.

So just some specific questions that are not 100% clear from the Help page if that's OK:

- Are you able to see specific times where your heart rate changes (e.g., elevated at 4:30am, back to normal 4:50am)?

- Has anyone experienced them tracking you as awake if your wrist/arm is moving? Wondering if I could purposely do that every now & then if awake to make the device track as awake?

- Can you edit the data and/or make notes later on?

Thanks. I'm still looking if anyone else has more specific insight. I sleep with white noise, so anything that tracks by sound probably wouldn't work for me.

Thanks again!