Fitbit Watch (or Similar) for Monitoring Sleep?

Anyone have a watch that monitors your sleep?

Love glynis

 

I have a Fitbit but I’ve never used it to monitor my sleep sorry. it’s good for keeping track of your daily exercise/steps and calories intake with the Fitbit app, I’m guessing it would be good for monitoring you sleep as well?
I try in tonight and let you know tomorrow if you like.

 

I have one and just wondering if the sleep pattern really gives an accurate reading.
Mine shows light and deep sleep patterns but I never get a good block of deep sleep, it sort of goes from light sleep to deep sleep to light sleep to deep sleep, etc.

Wondering if that's normal?

Love,
Glynis x

 

I prefer Garmin. The pattern of lighter and deeper sleep phases is determined solely by the movement of the watch and, of course, cannot be compared with a sleep laboratory...

 

Mine more or less said the same as yours Glynis, expect mine was more on the light side. I don’t think it gives you an exact picture of your sleep pattern. Not really impressed with it as a sleep monitor, but everything else I think is good with the Fitbit.

 

Fitbits now give a sleep score out of 100. Just wondering if anyone with a Fitbit has recently acquired sudden tinnitus, and if so, how did your sleep scores change? What was the before and after? I am wondering if Fitbit sleep scores could be used as a means of determining the efficacy of a treatment. I reckon there is a good chance sleep scores would be better than THI/TFI.

I’m presently trying an antioxidant/multivitamin regimen and thinking of using my sleep scores as a means of determining if it is working (so far after 5 days there has been quite an improvement in sleep scores but not an obvious improvement in the tinnitus impact itself; I’ll keep on monitoring to see if it is maintained).

 

Have you tried an in-home sleep test to get a more accurate reading? I had one and it was surprisingly good. I think it was probably pretty reliable. I had to pay for it privately but it was worth it as I needed to know whether I have sleep apnea. Turns out I snore so it’s a good reason for keeping the earplugs in at night. Means I may not have to do an in-hospital sleep test. I heard from a sleep specialist that Fitbit seems to be somewhat ok but I’m sure it’s not fully reliable.

 

My average Fitbit weekly sleep scores for the last 4 weeks were 79, 80, 79, 77 (although last night was 50!). I tend to have reasonable scores, with a few bad scores in the week.

I worry a bit that tinnitus is causing bad sleep which might be causing other health issues.

Can anyone else share their scores/experience?