Wrist Sleep Monitors

Has anyone tried any of these Wrist sleep monitors (Fitbit, Basis, Jawbone)? If so, your thoughts.

I have a Fitbit Charge which monitors sleep... and by that I mean it can tell when my arm doesn't move for a while lol.

It does a pretty good job of tracking how long I was in bed, and how many times I turned over, but that's about it.

I have used both Jawbone and Vivofit. I use them primarily to track activity to make sure I am moving, I stopped using them to track sleep. As neat of a feature as it is, it is just tracking how still you are, not quality of sleep so much.

I had a Misfit Flash, which worked fairly well, but died at four months. --FOUR LOUSY MONTHS!
Unfortunately, I misplaced the receipt from Best Buy, and now I'm screwed.
I hate Best Buy, and am not too fond of Misfit either.

Bignate76 wrote:I have a Fitbit Charge which monitors sleep... and by that I mean it can tell when my arm doesn't move for a while lol.

It does a pretty good job of tracking how long I was in bed, and how many times I turned over, but that's about it.

Hi pdeli. I've been using the CMS 50F for well over a year with no problems. [ Edit: Others here note the limitations in what is actually recorded during the night by so-called Wrist Sleep "Monitors."] I rather agree which is why I have never been enticed into buying one. Pulse-ox units on the other hand monitor much more health-critical data along with sleep time and so I think you would want to consider buying one of them instead.


The CMS 50F is worn on your wrist all night like a wrist watch and has a finger sensory unit to capture your pulse and oxygen data. In the morning you take it off and connect it to your computer to upload the data. Then you can read a report on your pulse/ox results. It can be had for under $100. I'd buy it again based on price and reliability.

See the instructions in my signature block if you want to insert and time-synchronize your resulting pulse/ox graphs with SleepyHead's standard detailed graphs.

Go to this link to browse more info and photographs of this unit.
https://www.google.com/search?q=cms+50f ... 20&bih=766

Pretty sure he is considering fitness monitors, not a SO2 sensor. You wear a fitness monitor all the time. Wearing a SO2 sensor all day long would be difficult at best just doing normal day to day activities.

Troll, hanging his bait out. Do not bite.

chunkyfrog wrote:Troll, hanging his bait out. Do not bite.

If you're referring to the OP, I know him (he lives not too far from me) and he's not a troll.

No, of course not! Just the ninny who thinks an pulse-ox is a "sleep" monitor!
Sad when the mind goes before the computer!

My take on these things was that I might wear one for a week or two, but after/if the output became repetitive, I would likely put it on the shelf. Even with Sleepyhead, I probably haven't looked at it for a couple of months. Once in awhile I check my AHI directly from the machine, or total hours if it was a weird night, but otherwise there's no need to fiddle around or see the same data again and again.

I did find an interesting review at http://www.huffingtonpost.com/dr-christ ... 92760.html, and I compared the actual products at Best Buy, but in the end decided that these were primarily exercise gadgets and would not have any lasting interest for me at least.

So thanks all for your responses.

Phil

chunkyfrog wrote:No, of course not! Just the ninny who thinks an pulse-ox is a "sleep" monitor!
Sad when the mind goes before the computer!

ah, so THAT'S what you were referring to in the other thread...

and, yes, yes it is.

I have a follow up question on fitbit and figured I would ask here.

I have had my Fitbit Charge HR since the start of the year and I'm really happy with it but I wondered if anyone had experience with the sensitive sleep mode setting? For the first couple months it was set to default and it showed me with maybe 20 minutes or so restless a night but now that I set it to sensitive I'm getting 2 to 3 hours every night as restless so it only shows me getting 4 or so hours of sleep a night and I wondered how accurate that might be.

I have been dealing with tiredness issues because I had put on a lot of weight but I'm down almost 50 pounds this year so I'm moving the right way at least. The dr did have my settings updated on the machine to compensate for it which did help a bit.

I have been using Jawbone Up for about 6months. To me it gives you more info than Fitbit. I also have a sleep monitor by Resumed. I try to compare both.

The fitbit uses an accelerometer to measure movement. When you go to sleep it is measuring arm movement. The assumption is that if you are not moving you are getting restful sleep.

The best way to use this information is to track it over time. If you see a trend towards longer "restful" sleep you should be happy.

Yeah that I understand but the difference between normal sleep tracking and sensitive is pretty extreme in my case so just wondered if anyone else had experienced that.