Usually I don't do a couple of posts in the same week, but after this last adjustment, my bite is driving me crazy. Well, it wasn't so much just the last adjustment, but the one before it and the final 5 weeks results of that are rearing it's ugly head. As I said in the last post, I've expanded 5mm on the top pallet. That's definitely been the straw that broke the camels back in terms of dealing with this horrendous pre op bite (where it's supposed to get worse right before surgery). So, I got around to taking a few glamour shots since I haven't done so in a while. Forgive the discolored teeth. I've had a space open up between my two back molars where I do all of my chewing and food is shoving up in to the gum and that area has not been the happiest camper recently. So, I've been using a little peridex here and there to help keep that area extra tidy. That stuff stains my teeth SO bad! Click on each picture for more info in the caption.
These updates with the pictures are so hard, but for full info on this journey, it has to be done. So... we're at like defcon 4 for these chompers. This needs to be fixed. I am having a lot of trouble eating, my jaw is even more sore, TMJ even more sore, having trouble speaking, and now after this expansion, I am having more trouble sleeping too with all the teeth not sitting right. I clench or clamp down in my sleep and wake up thinking I broke a tooth when they hit together abruptly in the wrong spot. They make this weird screech when they slam together the wrong way. It sounds a lot louder in my head than it really is, but it'll wake you up for sure! And the headaches have been non stop too. Really glad that this is the final stretch, because I don't know how much more I can take of this.
I am just hoping among hopes that my surgeon takes a look at me that first week of Jan and decides he can get me in a couple weeks later. It would be really awesome. But then comes the whole anxiety with the revision. I want this fixed so badly, but what happens if it's not fixed again? I've been so wound up lately that I've even started to just cry for no reason thinking about it! There is some hope here though. Seeing a few other recent patients go through their revisions with good results on the other end. I am so ecstatic for them and really really really really really hope I can get the same for me. I feel like I at least deserve a little improvement after all of this. I'll take imperfect, but it hopefully is at least 50 or 75% better. I hope.
So.. after all the bad pictures, I'll end with a decent one. My husband works at Google and they have a rockin holiday party every year. This year he switched teams and works for Googlemaps, so it was in a different venue and stuff, but still just as awesome. And surprisingly, somehow I photographed well that night! Only thing I have to complain about is you can definitely see the almost 20lbs I've put on. BUT... have to remind myself it's all for a good cause. I know I'll be SO happy I ate like a little heifer when post op wired shut time comes!
I am just hoping among hopes that my surgeon takes a look at me that first week of Jan and decides he can get me in a couple weeks later. It would be really awesome. But then comes the whole anxiety with the revision. I want this fixed so badly, but what happens if it's not fixed again? I've been so wound up lately that I've even started to just cry for no reason thinking about it! There is some hope here though. Seeing a few other recent patients go through their revisions with good results on the other end. I am so ecstatic for them and really really really really really hope I can get the same for me. I feel like I at least deserve a little improvement after all of this. I'll take imperfect, but it hopefully is at least 50 or 75% better. I hope.
So.. after all the bad pictures, I'll end with a decent one. My husband works at Google and they have a rockin holiday party every year. This year he switched teams and works for Googlemaps, so it was in a different venue and stuff, but still just as awesome. And surprisingly, somehow I photographed well that night! Only thing I have to complain about is you can definitely see the almost 20lbs I've put on. BUT... have to remind myself it's all for a good cause. I know I'll be SO happy I ate like a little heifer when post op wired shut time comes!
Google Holiday Party 2015, San Francisco CA
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