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Sleeping well, but stress level shows high

TJKCMO
over 3 years ago

I sleep well each night - I fall asleep quickly; I don't wake up; I don't eat or drink a couple of hours before bed; I don't smoke; my life stress is low; I exercise regularly; I feel rested in the morning. However, my stress level shows high while I'm sleeping - especially for the first half of the night. Then, my stress level tends to drop. Any ideas on what might be leading to this?

  • 0 over 1 year ago

    This is still a problem with Garmin.  The stress level measurements seem wrong.  It shows blue for an hour before bed when I’m winding down and for the first hour or so of sleep.  Then my stress levels spike for a couple hours nearly every night, then it’s blue for the rest of the night.  There’s NO correlation with deep sleep, REM, or awake times.  Nothing changes when I exercise or take relaxing things like magnesium or CBD.  I don’t drink alcohol so that’s not it.  No correlation whether I eat a light, early dinner or later.  No correlation with sugar intake.  No change when I wear the Fenix 6spro on the other wrist.   High stress is the #1 factor that consistently lowers my sleep score.  Please help.  

  • 0 over 1 year ago

    This is still a major problem with the Fenix6s pro!  Almost EVERY night my stress level shows blue an hour before sleep when I wind down and for the first hour of sleep, then it spikes up for a couple hours, then it’s blue for the rest of the night.  It’s the #1 problem that ruins my sleep score.  No correlation with which wrist I wear it on, whether I eat light early dinner or late one, whether I take magnesium or CBD to relax, whether I eat sugar/dessert or not.  Also no correlation with sleep stages of deep or REM or awakeness.  Seriously, what’s going on?  It’s been a problem for years with no answer to any of us.  Please help.

  • 0 over 1 year ago in reply to 9895428

    I am seeing the same 

  • 0 over 1 year ago

    Hi, I have the same problem. I am a new user. My body battery is always low, yet I feel I have rested/slept well.

    This morning it says I have had long enough sleep but of poor quality - says over 8 hours - this is incorrect as I was out last night and got into bed at 1.20am, it is 7.40am as I write this! Any ideas?

  • 0 over 1 year ago in reply to 1172276

    Yes, I have found the same. Interestingly, wine seems to spike stress levels quite dramatically.

  • 0 over 1 year ago

    Same here.  Low stress scores all day long ... then high at night.  I'm sleeping better than ever (quit coffee) and don't drink or smoke.  Feel fine in the morning.  But I have high stress scores throughout the night.

  • 0 over 1 year ago in reply to jwillenb

    I have noticed a HUGE correlation between eating totally healthy and eating lots of salt ot processed foods, fast foods, packaged foods, sugar etc. If I stay away from that my stress level drops to nothing at night.

  • 0 over 1 year ago

    I often get high stress scores when sleeping.  I've been doing experiments with changing things up, one variable at a time, to see how it affects my stress score.  It gets complicated.