That just about sums up how I feel right now. This bite bites. It sucks. I really don't know how I am going to hold out until surgery if it's not in the next couple of months. After this last adjustment, it's just about closed my gap from the extraction on the bottom. The last nudge to exaggerate my overbite. It's got a smidge left to go on it, but it's pretty negligible to the eye if you're looking at me while I'm talking. My bite is now totally open in the front, and only my 3 back teeth are touching. My speech is impaired, I drool when I talk from time to time, I've choked chewing a few times, and food falls out of my mouth often. I grew up with buck teeth all of my life, but man oh man, this takes the cake in terms of feeling like my teeth are huge and jutting out the front of my face.
The thing that concerns me the most is the increase in pain. For the first time since the recovery from the last surgery, I actually had a pain shoot up from my jaw/joint area and go up through my ear. My left side has clicked since the first surgery, but now it's getting worse and also happening on my right side too. And now I am getting more of a pop and feeling like I can feel the joint slide out of the socket or something. There isn't a ton of pain associated with this when it happens, but it's definitely weird feeling. Headaches are worse, and the muscle strain is so bad now that if I talk for more than just a bit, my muscles are kind of locking up on me and I am getting tongue tied and having trouble speaking. The last week it's almost been like I don't even have to talk to set that off, as I wake up with enough strain to kick it off right from the start. Talking just makes it even worse past that. The strain and cramping around my mouth has just gone in to overdrive the last week or so. I think it's because I am trying to press my lips together and keep my teeth in my mouth.
Next ortho appointment is in 4 weeks. I am going to try really hard to push on until that appointment, but when I get there I am not hesitating to push for the surgery update anymore. And if they tell me I am not going to be surgery ready for another 6 or 7+ months, I want to know why. I get it, they need to move my teeth slow, but even my prosthodontist looked at me and thought I was just about where I should be to be ready for surgery. Close the extraction space and get my top braces on. That was pretty much supposed to be it for my pre op treatment. Really hate to be that nagging patient, but I don't think I could sit with this bite until late winter or spring of 2016. No way.
The thing that concerns me the most is the increase in pain. For the first time since the recovery from the last surgery, I actually had a pain shoot up from my jaw/joint area and go up through my ear. My left side has clicked since the first surgery, but now it's getting worse and also happening on my right side too. And now I am getting more of a pop and feeling like I can feel the joint slide out of the socket or something. There isn't a ton of pain associated with this when it happens, but it's definitely weird feeling. Headaches are worse, and the muscle strain is so bad now that if I talk for more than just a bit, my muscles are kind of locking up on me and I am getting tongue tied and having trouble speaking. The last week it's almost been like I don't even have to talk to set that off, as I wake up with enough strain to kick it off right from the start. Talking just makes it even worse past that. The strain and cramping around my mouth has just gone in to overdrive the last week or so. I think it's because I am trying to press my lips together and keep my teeth in my mouth.
Next ortho appointment is in 4 weeks. I am going to try really hard to push on until that appointment, but when I get there I am not hesitating to push for the surgery update anymore. And if they tell me I am not going to be surgery ready for another 6 or 7+ months, I want to know why. I get it, they need to move my teeth slow, but even my prosthodontist looked at me and thought I was just about where I should be to be ready for surgery. Close the extraction space and get my top braces on. That was pretty much supposed to be it for my pre op treatment. Really hate to be that nagging patient, but I don't think I could sit with this bite until late winter or spring of 2016. No way.
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