Trips to bathroom recorded as restless sleep!

[djarz]

My Flex is recording my wide awake bathroom trips as restless sleep. I get out of bed, walk 10 steps to bathroom, pee, and return. What gives?

[EmersonFitbit]

@djarz As your device is still in sleep mode, any movement will be recorded as restless sleep or awake. I imagine that during this time, the movement wasn't sufficiently vigorous to be categorized as awake. I'd recommend, if you're up for it, taking the device out of sleep mode for late-night urination activities. This is a technique that I use so that I may get as much credit for my steps as possible!

[Hjane26]

I get up several times a night to use the bathroom, and it never records it as "awake."  It always just says restless...but as the other poster pointed out, I try to move as little as possible when I do get up, so I guess it's not enough for it to feel like I'm awake.

[soccertl]

Have you tried setting you sensitivty to movement as sensitive instead of normal and see what happens? Might be worth a shot.

[Hjane26]

Yeah, I changed mine to sensitive, since on Normal it said I was asleep all night even when I know I was only getting around 4 hours each night.  Now that it's on sensitive, it's spot on to around 4 hours each night, but it still shows the trips to the bathroom as restless.  But it does confirm that I'm not getting enough sleep for sure!

[Geek47]

I want to do just the opposite.  I'm good with classifying trips to the bathroom as restless sleep.  (I'm not sleeping at that moment 🙂  🙂   But what I don't like is it totally stops sleep and starts a new sleep session when I get back in bed.  I have to go 30 steps down the hall.   What I'd like is some way to tell fitbit that if I get beck to motionless (even with a few steps) within 10 minutes, count it as part of the same sleep session.  Is there any way to do this?

[HangGroeneweg]

The same with my Charge.. how odd!!!

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@djarz wrote:

My Flex is recording my wide awake bathroom trips as restless sleep. I get out of bed, walk 10 steps to bathroom, pee, and return. What gives?

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[1linde]

I also have a flex and it does show bathroom trips as awake but I walk a few more than 10 steps. One trip showed as 4 minutes awake. It also shows awake as I do wake about the same time each day but on my days off I will simply go back to sleep for an hour or so and don't use my alarm or fitbit alarm. Eerily it seems to track quite accurately.

Did check my settings and mine is for a 12 hr sleep tracking as I don't turn in before 12pm, normal sensitivity and non dominant hand if that helps.

If you know what the restless times are attributed to I wouldn't be concerned. I think you can leave notes on your tracker so maybe note them for historical purposes if you are working on improving your sleep. It is glaring to me to see how little I really do sleep and I definitely need to get more hours in.

Also, it may correct itself. I have only  had my flex since Christmas, tracked sleep accurately first night than didn't. Learned I could log hours in and did show my sleep time. Then started auto loading again. Mine I seem to need to tap numerous times to go into sleep mode, more than 5.

[NXC]

If you know the bathroom trip is counted as restless sleep, what is the problem. I find this feature to be just great

[GarudaGirl]

The alternative would be to have it record it as awake time, which would break your sleep into multiple cycles. The restless sleep is probably better. Check your sleep sensitivity, though, to see if your settings make sense to you. The issue is that the device isn't able to discern whether you are getting up for the day or if you are just going to the bathroom. The associated steps are a tip off to the device that you are up and about. Hopefully it will end up to be a minor issue within overall sleep tracking.