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any of y'all have a watch that scores your sleep, mood, energy, health, etc?
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Orange Immortal [66105]
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any of y'all have a watch that scores your sleep, mood, energy, health, etc?
Jun 20, 2025, 9:45 AM
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I'm sure some of you do.
Mine ALWAYS tells me my sleep is crap. "Needs Attention", 30-40 percentile or lower. I know that, I have always been an insomniac. If I sleep 4 hours a night, that's a good night. I watch/listen to TV all night long, old movies, news, ballgames, etc. That's my nature and I accept that. Been that way since I was a kid. Watch is accurate as heck, I do admit that, absolutely nails my sleep pattern. My assigned "sleep animal" is a deer - "Deer typically sleep in short periods, often dozing for a few minutes at a time, and can sleep in various positions, including lying down or standing. They are known to be alert even during sleep, constantly monitoring their surroundings." OK.
However - and this is the difficult thing to understand - my watch (Samsung) tells me my energy level is outstanding, excellent 90+ percentile. ALWAYS, no matter how little I sleep. Congratulates me every morning on how much energy I have.
How can both be true?
I do feel fine even with the 3-4 hours sleep, that's a fact. Compared to others? Not sure.
If I ever slept 8 hours I don't know how I would feel. I might explode from the super energy.
Just wondering what kind of analysis everybody else gets on these things, and how accurate or inaccurate you think they are.
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Back when I wore mine it told me that my minimum oxygen was like
Jun 20, 2025, 9:52 AM
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80 something. My PCP kinda freaked out at that, told me do to a sleep study. That was going to be $3000 after insurance. I don't think it is right that the place that does sleep studies also sells the machines. I mean have you ever heard of somebody getting one done and them not finding an issue?
That was nearly 2 years ago. I'm still alive so there is that.
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Orange Immortal [66105]
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my oxygen level has always been good, but I question how it can know this
Jun 20, 2025, 9:58 AM
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no Afib or heart issues. Always relaxed and stress free. I can't make it fail even on purpose.
I was at Clemson regional baseball game a few weeks ago. Tight game, late innings, everybody stressed. My friend was in panic mode, she asked aren't you freaking out? I said nah, I'm OK. So I did a heartbeat/stress measurement on my watch to prove to her. Came back as "relaxed", heartbeat at 65bpm, rest stage. Blew her mind.
Takes more than a silly baseball game to get me riled up.
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I don't know how "accurate" mine is,
Jun 20, 2025, 9:56 AM
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but I use it more for patterns and a baseline. There are a couple of things that are usually out of range a day or 2 before I get sick which kinda gives me a heads up.
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Orange Immortal [67940]
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No, but I have one of them Oura rangs, with the app on my phone.
Jun 20, 2025, 9:58 AM
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Lats night's sleep was "73 Good".
Total sleep: 7 hrs 21 min
REM in the red problem zone: 21 mins
Deep Sleep was good: 53 min
"You didn't sleep long, but you got a good amount of restorative deep sleep."
Yet I feel groggy sorta like a hangover. Maybe I need to take a good dump.
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I have a basic one that just does steps, heart rate and pulse ox. I don't think
Jun 20, 2025, 10:23 AM
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it's particularly accurate for any of that.
It does seem to know how long I sleep, but I don't really pay much attention to that.
The main thing I use it for now is to remind myself how many days I have exercised.
I went through a couple years when I was pretty obsessed with the step count and meeting goals each day/week/month. I had a massive spreadsheet of steps and averages. It got to be a bit out of hand so I had to dial that back. My only hangover from that is I get mad if I forget to switch my watch to the right hand so I don't get steps for rubbing one out.
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Orange Immortal [66105]
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I have to be careful about that too, OCD kicking in with the step goal
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Jun 20, 2025, 10:32 AM
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sometimes I'll be sitting there at 11pm at night and it saying I need 500 more steps to reach my "daily goal". Very tempted to go outside and walk those steps in the cold or rain to make the goal, but that's pretty freaking stupid.
It used to bother me but I'm now mostly immune to the "daily goal" guilt trip for steps, calories burned, flights of stairs, etc.
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4,000,436 steps in 2021. Avg of 10,960 per day. I remember going to a NYE
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Jun 20, 2025, 10:37 AM
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party and thinking I had to make sure I walked around enough to get to 4 million.
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I have a Fitbit and a CPAP dashboard.
Jun 20, 2025, 10:50 AM
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CPAP measures basic respiratory stuff, usage hours, mask seal, "events", etc. It's much more optimistic about my sleep than the Fitbit--I'm not sure I've ever hit above 80 for a sleep score on that. I'm similar to you, stay up late with TV on, typically function on 5-6 hours. I can put the CPAP mask on and watch TV for an hour, and it gives me credit for a good hour of sleep. Fitbit knows I ain't sleepin'.
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Re: any of y'all have a watch that scores your sleep, mood, energy, health, etc?
Jun 20, 2025, 12:04 PM
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Mine tracks all that crap but I never wear it to sleep. Only use it during the day to track running/ fitness goals, etc. I don’t a watch to tell me if I’m stressed or stayed up all night.
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mine only tells me when its time to eat.
Jun 20, 2025, 12:14 PM
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like now
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I sometimes consider buying a watch that does all the fancy stuff but I realized
Jun 20, 2025, 12:27 PM
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that I don't pay any attention to anything other than steps and time. I had a Fitbit for years, and it had some sleep tracking features that I never paid attention to. Then, when the Fitbit died, I got a cheap Wyze watch, which also has some sleep tracking features that I never look at. I kinda know when I wake up whether I slept good or not so it just doesn't seem like a good purchase to have a high-tech watch that will probably worry me more than help me. I know that if I go over 10k steps every day that I'm not sitting on my butt, and that's all I need to know.
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Re: I sometimes consider buying a watch that does all the fancy stuff but I realized
Jun 20, 2025, 2:12 PM
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Speaking of steps I read somewhere that the average American takes 4700 steps per day? 4700?? What the heck do people do all day to only get 4700 steps?
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4700 steps is a week's worth
Jun 20, 2025, 2:18 PM
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for most of the seacows I see waddling around in everyday life.
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Re: 4700 steps is a week's worth
Jun 20, 2025, 2:23 PM
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Probably right. Amazing. I’m averaging about 20,000 a day. A few big days sprinkled in is 30,000. I can’t sit long!!
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