Now that I’m used to sleeping with the FitBit on my wrist (although the itchiness hasn’t… quite gone away, and I don’t ever expect that it will completely go away), I’ve been able to log my sleep with it and how much time I spend in the various stages of sleep. According to one night, I spent approximately 14% of that night “awake”, 19% of it in the REM stage of sleep, 45% of it in light sleep, and 22% of it in deep sleep. Surprisingly, most of my deep sleep was toward the start of the night. I’m wondering if any of the medications that I have to take would have anything to do with my sleep patterns, but I suppose we’ll be finding that out in the coming months as FitBit continues to store more sleep data for me and I have a chance to look at more of it.

Based on the reading that I’ve done on it, FitBit’s ability to track one’s sleep is actually pretty accurate… or so that’s what a lot of people say, especially those who have used FitBit to track it and then have gone on to have their sleep actually studied at the hospital or in a lab. So I continue to hold out hope in a good way, heh.

Once I get some more nights logged with it, I’ll be sure to take a few screenshots and post them up here.

Setting the FitBit up was a breeze, especially syncing it to the app that I have for it.

On the other hand, what hasn’t been a breeze has been the fact that my immune system is back to what it normally likes to do when it gets bored… so the feeling of the strap on my wrist, even though I tried to place it as comfortably as possible, is bothering me because all it seems to do is itch. I need to find some way to get over this or, at the very least, ameliorate this symptom. But should I really be surprised? This post is, after all, being written out by the very same person who has chronically rejected all piercing attempts made (three earlobe piercings), who had to have a medical implant moved because her body chronically rejected that to the tune of an emergency room visit. It’s still annoying that my immune system, as with my disabilities, limits my life in the manner that it does. The least that some people can do is actually take it seriously when I say that it does that. Because I am bound and determined to make this Inspire HR function in my life, damn it…

One of the things that I have tried doing is to move it around on my wrist as best as I am able to without making it so that it can’t read vital signs, and on occasion, taking it off of my wrist for short periods. There’s also the fact that I take it off of my wrist anyway when it needs to be charged. But based on the use that I’ve gotten so far out of it, the Inspire HR does hold a decent charge… the only functional limitation as far as actually using it goes is the itchiness that persists when it is worn “too long”, but that’s not the fault of the FitBit itself as much as it is the fault of my immune system being like a bored, petulant, small child. Seriously.