Encouraging news to report!<\/p>\n
It all started about a month ago when I caught another annoying head cold. In the interest of encouraging a good night’s sleep, I stopped wearing the SleepGuard for about a week, allowing the Nyquil to work its wonders. During this time, I wore my bite guard each night in case of clenching. The cold subsided after about 10 days, but I was hesitant to start wearing the SleepGuard again. I just didn’t feel like dealing with the beeping!<\/p>\n
I took a break from wearing the SleepGuard for almost a month.<\/p>\n
When I decided to try it again, I put my jury-rigged contraption on and hoped for the best.<\/p>\n
When I woke up in the morning, I had:\u00a0ZERO grinding events!?<\/p>\n
The device definitely was responding to clenching, because it still beeped when I consciously clenched. But this was unprecedented.<\/p>\n
I took a look at the configuration and realized that I had been using the level 4 setting instead of level 3. Strange. I don’t recall changing the setting to a higher threshold for clenching. But still. Zero grinding events? This was very interesting. For the past week I’ve been wearing the SleepGuard at level 4, and consistently getting readings under 6 grinding events every night. What I think is happening is that this setting is drastically reducing the amount of false positives that I had been experiencing before, where the sensor would be set off by fitful sleep and bad connections.<\/p>\n
Either that, or by taking a month break, my lizard brain started learning new behavior. I am cautiously optimistic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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