u/whistle_while_u_wait

I see a lot of metrics that I could be logging in Guava but I need a device to so it. Stuff like HRV, sleep stages, blood oxygen, etc.

I am currently using a cheap offbrand watch that connects to Guava via HealthConnect. It syncs steps, BPM, and total sleep but doesn't pass along the stuff above to Guava, even though though the watch does measure them.

Next time I buy a device, I want to get one that will actually sync all that. But I'm having a hard time figuring out which ones will.

For example: I downloaded the Samsung Wear app and saw the permissions don't show it writing HRV. So I'm figuring a Galaxy watch wouldn't send that to Guava.

Ideas?

(Crossposting to r/jawsurgery as well)

Lol I was here yesterday trying to process all this info and now I'm back to do some info gathering.

*My main questions / requests*: In everyone's opinion, where is the line where holistic, conservative approach with just braces, supplements, PT etc isn't enough and you need to go for jaw surgery? Does anyone regret not trying the conservative stuff first? Can you try braces first and decide on jaw surgery later or do you kind of need to know you're heading towards jaw surgery to direct braces strategy? Please share your stories! As all of the experts I'm talking to irl are trying to make a sale, I am really craving some unbiased takes.

*Further info on my situation, if needed*: I have a severe overbite and overjet. Enough so that my bottom front teeth are biting into the roof of my mouth. I have noticable "buck teeth" (not awful, but enough that people notice) and have broken several molars from bruxism. Most importantly, though, I have had debilitating headaches and migraine my whole life that won't resolve (despite being on 2 migraine preventives, PT, Botox, chiropractic, massage, etc.). They are are making it hard to hold down a job or live a normal life.

After needing two molars crowned recently, I decided enough is enough and went to an orthodontist. To my surprise, I they immediately recommended lower jaw advancement surgery, braces, and potentially extractions. (I was surprised as I'd had an appliance for this stuff as a kid and I'd thought all but cosmetics were fixed.)

For a second opinion I'm going into a TMJ ortho specialist who has helped my mom a lot. When I booked with the receptionist, she told me they almost never recommend surgery. So already I'm like "okay, so we're going to be getting a very different take here."

I am skeptical of both approaches at this point as I know both are hard sell types. So I would really appreciate more information.

(Crossposted to r/TMJ as well

Not looking for advice. Just need a place to process with people who may understand.)

34F. I’ve spent most of my life dealing with severe chronic migraine/daily headache, believing my childhood overbite treatment meant that my bite was fixed and couldn't be related. WELP, I’m now learning the underlying structural problem was never actually fully corrected (not even at the conclusion of overbite treatment).

So, in my thirties, I am just now learning that I have skeletal issues that could be majorly contributing to the headache disability. Not only that, they cause sleep apnea and jaw damage and that they have already caused me to need 2 crowns due to broken teeth. Even tho my mouth has looked like this all along, my dentists never referred me. Therefore, somehow, I never found out I need braces (not to mention potentially extractions and jaw surgery) to fix skeletal issues until I was 34. Far past treatment windows for growth modification. Far past when these interventions might have helped me reclaim my early adulthood from debilitating headaches.

How have I been seeing a dentist every 6 months this whole time, increasingly having broken teeth from wear, asking many times if they can give me any pointers for migraine management, and STILL it took til now to get here?

I just...wtf?

(Crossposted to r/jawsurgery as well

Not looking for advice. Just need a place to process with people who may understand.)

34F. I’ve spent most of my life dealing with severe chronic migraine/daily headache, believing my childhood overbite treatment meant that my bite was fixed and couldn't be related. WELP, I’m now learning the underlying structural problem was never actually fully corrected (not even at the conclusion of overbite treatment).

So, in my thirties, I am just now learning that I have skeletal issues that could be majorly contributing to the headache disability. Not only that, they cause sleep apnea and jaw damage and that they have already caused me to need 2 crowns due to broken teeth. Even tho my mouth has looked like this all along, my dentists never referred me. Therefore, somehow, I never found out I need braces to fix skeletal issues, not to mention extractions and jaw surgery, until I was 34. Far past treatment windows for growth modification. Far past when these interventions might have helped me reclaim my early adulthood from debilitating headaches.

How have I been seeing a dentist every 6 months this whole time, increasingly having broken teeth from wear, asking many times if they can give me any pointers for migraine management, and STILL it took til now to get here?

I just...wtf?

I have seen other posts about this on here. Frustrations about not actually getting the bpm alerts needed from a fitness watch bc it only alerts if you stay in a heart rate zone for 10 minutes

Well, in frustration about not getting any alerts, I decided to tell mine to alert me every time I'm over 100bpm for more than 10 minutes. Just to see if it was even working in the first place.

And, you know? I like it this way. If I am at all active (or flared), I get a little buzz that tells me my bpm every 10 minutes. Like, sure. It won't buzz the exact moment I hit 160 (if I do). But, you know? I'm getting a lot of little buzzes telling me I'm at 126bpm while lying down or at 115pm while I'm sitting at my computer, and those are helping me keep myself out of the 150-160 zone on the first place.

(For context: I use an IDW26 watch with the VeryFit app.)

(I wrote this as a comment in r/thanksimcured, but figured I'd post it here in case it resonates with anyone.)

My blood BOILS whenever anyone (medical or otherwise) who I just met starts lecturing me about how to fix my chronic migraine.

You know what? Small comfort, but at least in that way the posers and the confident but uninformed unwittingly self-identify themselves to you.

My absolute favorite headache specialist ever was one who, after talking with me about my medical history for an hour and a half, looked me in the eyes and said "You will almost certainly have migraine for the rest of your life. We are here to manage it."

Good practitioners for chronic illnesses with no known permanent fix speak of management and paint it as a team effort. Posers speak of cure and paint themselves as the source of it.

(And, tbh, I need to remind myself of this more because I STILL get pulled into people selling stuff and promising to help. Maybe some mean well. Maybe some are preying on my desperation. But, either way, I want to be more discerning in protecting my peace.)

Will give more background below but basically I always live in a mess because of some sort of internal rebellion against being forced to always be working while growing up. Hell, its reached the level of skills regression. I was muuuuuuch more organized and tidy as a child than I am now. I can't seem to access it anymore. I am even struggling to clean while having pressure from housemates bc it triggers that old stuff. Its really debilitating.

Aside from therapy, are there modalities or books or anything to help me work through this? I'm tired of being enslaved to my bad memories. I'm tired of living in a mess.

Also, just eager to hear from others who experienced this. I don't feel like I hear about this anywhere and I feel overdramatic, even though I know I'm not.

Background: Growing up from about as far back as I can remember, my parents always had us doing chores. Holidays. Evenings. Weekends. (Except Sundays because it was the Lord's Day). We didn't have a say in the matter. I remember being in 3rd grade and talking with my siblings about how we felt like unpaid labor.

And it wasn't always necessary stuff. We were always first up for deep lawn work for grandparents and great grandparents. Church. Local charities. Relandscaping at our own house. Gardening. Household chores to manage our larger than usual family. We didn't have a say. We had to do it or else we were punished.

Heck, I didn't get to do sports and social things because (among other reasons), I was "needed" at home. I remember feeling like I could never get a break. I'd get in trouble for disappearing into my room to read. I got told my homework and reading were an escape from real work.

I could go on and on but its hard to talk about. You get the idea.