Hello!
What I liked to read here is that there is some audio filter that can be trained with bruxism noise and use my phone to try to detect it. Perhaps some low-noise high-sensitivity microphone hanging over my bed would make sense. Probably I'm in a specific sleep phase, that probably the Fitbit can detect. So here we have the potential to interrupt the bruxism phase by some vibrations in the Fitbit.
(Dito idea for the snoring ones of us;)
Where do I read from these ideas ? Is the API to Fitbit usable for this?
Now to the reasons for bruxism and some alternative was to see on it:
I have read a lot about MCAS, mast cell activation disorder. Bruxism is on the symptom list.
It is related to histamine intolerance, but stems from mast cells that are way to sensitive (to heat, cold, vibration/scratching on the skin, to all kinds of chemicals to skin or stomach, to a lot of medicine that releases histamine or is related to histamine or other mast cell expressed messenger substances. But depending on age and severity, only some of the long list of symptoms may occur. The longer the symptoms are known, the more severely they get for MCAS and the more organs are involved. (Childhood: bowel symptoms, sometimes only bad after parties (to much sweets, to much histamine or Theorin in chocolate), youth: lung, skin; later: arthritic symptoms, tinnistus, bruxism, heart stutters, bad headaches, neurologic symptoms of AHD, Autism or schizophrenia, etc...)
Use the list of borrelia b. based Lyme disease, and you have the picture. But: MCAS have 5-10% of the population. Nearly 0% now it. (Lyme D.: 0,03%)
One symptom is high muscular tones, leading to symptoms of fibromyalgia, and in this vicinity also to bruxism.
By the way, high tension in the neck under the ear often produces tinnitus, because some 1/3 of population has a vital part of inner ear blood circulation by arteries leading between the neck muscles.
Therefore that is remedied by massage of the neck and vibrating massage of the ear canal by keeping the ear closed with a finger on the tragus and pumping gently inward. And by manual therapy and Craniosacral methods of balancing our large bowl on the neck a-new.
Diagnostic therapy:
Leave out all mast cell activating substances, like any alcohol even in small amounts (therefore low-carb anti-yeast diet, since yeast produce alc inside you as well), iodine in salt, folic acid in vitamins and supplements (widely spread to donate some folic acid here and there...)
Try Levoceterizine 2-4/d for a month. Combine with antioxidants like Vitamin C (retard or depot, since you should take 0,5-1,5g/d, to protect your teeth and bowel mucosa).
Also try all mast cell taming things like curcumine, thyme, tryptophane, cumin oil, etc..
Therefore also try to clean up your bowel, i.e.: bind toxics and feed the right bacteria, Lactobacillae and Bifidae. This is most effectively done by praebiotics named galctooligosaccharides, as I found here: Wolz Curabiom baby:
https://www.wolz.de/produkte/darmgesund-fuer-eine-gesunde-darmfunktion/curabiomr-baby/
(It's a google translate link above the link of the original link of the manufacturer. They also produce good probiotics, that helped me to get my immune system fit against infections, but not to alter my biome in my bowels, very inert to change. So I have to live with the beasts I was given between birth and 1yr old, where the biome stabilizes, minus all I have lost due to antibiotics that often eradicate one or other stem from your biome. I always ask myself: if I really have to take antibiotics, why not freeze in some sample of my biome? Perhaps to cheap a remedy...)
If symptoms get slightly better, investigate further. It's a detective's game! Never give up. You have the right to be well and feel good! 😉
Of course you have to do the list of differential diagnosis for MCAS to exclude any problem leading to the same symptoms, to find a more ground based diagnosis and based on this profound therapy.
Most important is to find out what you do not tolerate, any allergies, especially food allergies, second food intolerances. This may change if your balance is re-gained, so try out some years later.
But to sum it up: lend some wisdom from the really old therapeutic systems, as you like, choose TCM or Ayurveda, and change your epigenetic program, e.g. by meditation. I think in TCM you could search for kidney energy build-up treatment.
A more scientific approach was given by Pruimboom: Wirkkochbuch in his Literature List, if interested, pm me. But the scientist investigating MCAS also draw conclusions in the direction of epegenetics.
Eg. search for Prof. Molderings & epigenetic.
For the spiritually inclined lending towards belief in a higher being, I found some analogies on the way relief of sins is discussed e.g. in the bible. While zapping I sometimes listen to pastor Joseph Prince from newcreationchurch.org and find his preaching somehow, on a high level, related to my search for cures for MCAS. Don't be fixated to one way of thinking here. Sometimes I stand upon one leg (The Tree in yoga) and pray a father in heaven. This gave me some aha-effect not only once.
Good luck!
Andi
