does anyone monitor their sleep with a smart watch?

[vash]

how?

how does it even work? i can see how they can read HR. easy. mine just told me i got 2.5 hours of REM. come on!

i had 16 minutes of wakefullness, which seem right. i did toss/turn when i woke from a crap dream i cant remember.

[rwest]

I have no clue- magic?

I rarely wear my Garmin except during exercise, but every once and awhile I wear it to bed just to see what my resting heart rate is. Here’s my chart from a couple days ago.

[Deschodt]

I did sleep with a pulse oxymeter all night, mapping to my phone... several times in fact, to see if my CPAP machine was bull****. A: it was not...
Not sure the REM and stuff is accurate but I did start dreaming again when I went CPAP.

[vash]

Originally Posted by rwest

I have no clue- magic?

I rarely wear my Garmin except during exercise, but every once and awhile I wear it to bed just to see what my resting heart rate is. Here’s my chart from a couple days ago.

hey. how do you activate that battery body charge thing? i cant figure that out.

i'm almost dead when i sleep. i have 9 breaths per minute. i'm like a baluga whale.

[rwest]

Originally Posted by vash

hey. how do you activate that battery body charge thing? i cant figure that out.

i'm almost dead when i sleep. i have 9 breaths per minute. i'm like a baluga whale.

No idea, it just shows up on my screen and I also can’t figure out what it means, because it has both a positive and negative number?

[vash]

Originally Posted by rwest

No idea, it just shows up on my screen and I also can’t figure out what it means, because it has both a positive and negative number?

googling the hell out of it as we type.

i just turned it on, at the watch.

[dad911]

I do, with a smart watch from Amazon.

Didn't realize how bad my sleep pattern was. Very little deep sleep. W/o gummies.

With a gummy? Big improvement. I also lost alot of weight once my sleep improved.

YMMV

[vash]

i average 9+ hours a night. my wife calls it my superpower.

[gacook]

What watch are you using? I've got a Samsung that I wear. It does a pretty remarkable job monitoring sleep (and daily crap) and within their app (on the phone), it explains each area that it's monitoring. Gives you a detailed breakdown of trends, what the various readings mean, how to improve them, etc.

[gacook]

Originally Posted by vash

i average 9+ hours a night. my wife calls it my superpower.

You sound like my wife...she generally gets 9+ hours/night and is a zombie the next day if she doesn't. I'm in the 4-5hr/night range myself.

[masraum]

I think it's mostly HR and then how much you move around, possible pulse-ox for the watches with that feature. I guess the theory is that if you're moving around, then you're not sound asleep.

I've worn mine to sleep once or twice. I have no idea what it said. Normally, I put my watch on the charger when I shower at the end of the day and put it back on in the morning.

I have an OLD Apple watch. I need to upgrade to a new/newer version.

I'm usually sleeping within minutes of my head hitting the pillow. I think I do wake up 2-3 times during the night, but I think I fall back to sleep almost immediately. I think I tend to get 7-8 hours of sleep per night (based on when I go to bed and when I get up). Some weekend days I may get 8-9 hours.

[Arizona_928]

Yeah, that’s how a coworker figured out how their mum passed way.

[jyl]

I use an iPhone app. It listens to your breathing and movements, figures out when you're awake, REM sleep, deep sleep, apnea, coughing, etc. Rather useful and amusing - I get excited when I hit 100% sleep score and depressed when I am sleeping at 60%, which is pretty often. It is very accurate at knowing when I'm awake vs asleep, so i figure it is pretty good a deep vs REM, and of course it can detect breathing and non-breathing fine. Don't think a smartwatch would add much other than HR, not sure how useful that it unless it is zero.

[Bill Verburg]

I wear my Garmin all the time, mostly it confirms what I already knew from how i felt but it's interesting to see the subtle change in resting HR, breathing rate, HRV, Oxygen levels etc I teven keeps track of naps.

You can see when you are overdoing it, sick, or just hungover

even better it keeps track of all the metrics so you can compare today to last year to 10yrs ago, I use it in conjunction w/ Garmin Connect as the watch only remembers for a few years.it

feels good to see that my 76 yr old resting HR is the same as my 40 year old one.

[masraum]

Originally Posted by Bill Verburg

I wear my Garmin all the time, mostly it confirms what I already knew from how i felt but it's interesting to see the subtle change in resting HR, breathing rate, HRV, Oxygen levels etc I teven keeps track of naps.

You can see when you are overdoing it, sick, or just hungover

even better it keeps track of all the metrics so you can compare today to last year to 10yrs ago, I use it in conjunction w/ Garmin Connect as the watch only remembers for a few years.it

feels good to see that my 76 yr old resting HR is the same as my 40 year old one.

I have read about coaches that had athletes (I can't remember if it was HS or College) keep track of their morning resting heart rate. When they noticed that it went up (presumably outside of the normal range that is probably pretty stable in young folks) that meant that they were going to get sick which they did within 24-48 hours. I've never had the discipline to check religiously in the morning as soon as I open my eyes and before I get out of bed.

[Bill Verburg]

Originally Posted by masraum

I have read about coaches that had athletes (I can't remember if it was HS or College) keep track of their morning resting heart rate. When they noticed that it went up (presumably outside of the normal range that is probably pretty stable in young folks) that meant that they were going to get sick which they did within 24-48 hours. I've never had the discipline to check religiously in the morning as soon as I open my eyes and before I get out of bed.

My Garmin gives me a morning report every AM, first thing when I sit down w/ my cuppa, it goes the basics and tosses in a weather report, sunrise/sunset time and moon phase.

[Joeaksa]

About 5-6 years ago I came down with A-Fib. Heart beating 120+ BPM and would not slow down.

Doctor got some meds in me and we fixed it for a while but not forever. Finally bought a Samsung Smart watch and started wearing and recording my heart (and other healthy stuff) so that I could show it to the medical folks.

It even monitors my heart and should it revert back to A-Fib again will send a message to my cell phone. Had an operation on the heart 15 months ago (Abilation) and not a single episode since. I still wear the watch much of the time just to keep an eye on things, especially while sleeping and it does a great job keeping an eye on my feeble ticker!

[wdfifteen]

Originally Posted by Joeaksa

. Finally bought a Samsung Smart watch and started wearing and recording my heart (and other healthy stuff) so that I could show it to the medical folks.

Did you calibrate it to their metrics, or were you only interested in relative changes vs absolute numbers?

[Joeaksa]

Originally Posted by wdfifteen

Did you calibrate it to their metrics, or were you only interested in relative changes vs absolute numbers?

No calibration at all, just wore it out of the box and it was as accurate as the instruments in my doctors office. It checks my heart every 10 minutes (will do it all the time if needed but wears down the battery) then sends the data to my cell phone. I can then download the data and give it to the doctor from there.

[juanbenae]

I use my CPAP machine to monitor. Get a weekly update via email from a site the machine connects to with nightly reports that include time slept, mask fit, apnea events, with a "sleep score". I can tell the nights I drink by the results v. not drink.