bathroom break interrupts sleep monitoring

[veeta]

I get up once per night, and my fitbit counts my sleep as stopping at that point. Is there a way to resume sleep monitoring after one gets up in the night? I also sometimes change beds if hubby is snoring, but I go right back to bed. I know I sleep more than five hours--is there any way to fix this? My settings are normal.

[MeLori]

I was just getting ready to post the same concern. Started with a new Versa 2 yesterday and this morning it cut off my sleep at 5:30am when I got up and went to the restroom.  I hope there's an easy fix.

[Dominique]

I’m an older guy with a growing prostate and I need to go up at night at least once, sometimes twice. This never interrupts sleep monitoring, though trips to the bathroom do show up in various forms on graphs.

Last night, I had to go up twice, at about 1am and 7am. Both trips showed up on the step graph:

They also show up on the sleep graph:

 The bathroom is next door to my bedroom, so it’s a very short distance. I’ll try to go to the bathroom downstairs, and maybe walk a few extra steps to the kitchen, to see if it makes any difference.

How far away is your bathroom, and how long does it take you before you’re back to bed? My Fitbit is the Ionic, I use normal sleep sensitivity (i.e. the default).

[veeta]

Well now that I am a few nights in, it seems to be working just fine—times I get up in the night are just indicated as awake times. I’m still not sure why my wake up time was so early the first night, but oh well! It’s really interesting to look at graph data. 

[Colinm39]

Like @Dominique  I have to get up at night, and last night 4 times, and once to the kitchen, and it always shows as wake time.  My sleep score last night was 85 and 8hr 8min sleep. I had a good score again in Restoration which had me 74% under my RHR which gave me 20/25

Unfortunately mine is after more serious problems with my prostate and now my brain is starting to learn again to go to the bathroom which is great.... 

Last night the steps show, and include restless night because it's been warm at night.  I have never had issues with the sleep recording on my Ionic. But in saying that, if something wakes me, and I realize I have been awake for over an hour it breaks my sleep graph into two graphs, one normal graph over 3 hours, and the other, because it's less than 3 hours, the older format graph.  That knocks the sleep score about.

[Colinm39]

Here is an example of my sleep recording working.. even with about an hour being awake..

Between 3:57 and 4:57 I was consciously awake.. I listened the the radio news at 4:00am, did the bathroom thing and I knew I was awake..

With my low HR. maybe Fitbit measures that as light sleep or I was having micro sleeps because I always noticed my Google clock time

[Kay_n_t]

I have the same problem as the other users and my bathroom is right next to my bedroom, practically hooked on. I have the versa lite.

[Kay_n_t]

ok, this was my first night also so hopefully it starts working for me too.

[MeLori]

So, I'm still having problems. Sometimes my Versa 2 is still only recording 3-4 hours of sleep. I go to bed at 11pm and get up at 8am. Sometimes I get up in the middle of the night, and other times I don't. It really shouldn't matter though. It should show that as awake time, and not totally just cut off my sleep at 3-4 hours. I cannot figure it out for the life of me. Anyone have a fix?

[digitll]

I am the same way. Sometime my Versa 2 works the way its supposed to and just shows that i'm awake when going to the bathroom, but lately almost every night when i get up at about 2 am it shuts off thinking i'm up for the day. I just go to the bathroom, then wash hands then back to bed and fast asleep. But in the morning it shows it stopped at 2 am and because i didn't get 4 hrs of sleep, it only shows sleep pattern of when i'm asleep and when i'm awake. No stages (Rem, light, or deep sleep).I think you have to have 3 or 4 hours of sleep in order to get your stages Rem, light, or deep to show up. Hope this can be fixed in an upcoming update.

[Colinm39]

@digitll You are correct.. But you have nothing to lose by editing the sleep log and changing the wake time. When you do this you can analyse the sleep even if it only gives you the old graph.

I have had success joining the sleep records when I get an old graph and new graph on the same night.. I delete the old graph and adjust the times..