Surgery on the uvula

[Guest guest]

I may be as far off on this one as I was when originally confronted

with surgery on the lower jaw.

What I have read and heard about surgery on the soft palate and uvula

leads me to believe that jaw surgery is, at least most often, a walk

in the park, by comparison.

I have had the latter, have not had the former two, so maybe you

should just flush my opinion down the point of (one hopes) no

return... But honestly, what I hear mostly from folks who have

surgically changed the structure of their mouths through work on the

jaws is not mostly pain. And many find they can breathe, speak and

chew way better. Some report that they can smell things for the first

time. (I cannot, for reasons nobody has ever given me. Could not ever

in my life that I can remember - no blame to the surgery on this one.

But I'm really good at cleaning up after poopy kids and pets.)

I do think your case sounds really, REALLY, complicated, and that I

would want an expert, indeed the best of the experts, to help me, if

I'd been through all that. Removing the uvula --- ugh! I would think

A LONG TIME before I let anybody do that -- but I may be ignorant

there, too.

C.

[Guest guest]

I couldn't find the origin of this thread, but I can

say that I have all three procedures done. I had severe

sleep apnea and did RF surgery on the soft palate, and had

the laser surgery done twice on my uvula. Yes, it completely

sucked...mainly it was the worst sore throat in your life.

However, the healing time is much faster than jaw surgery. I'm

now 6 weeks post op and just got over a big infection that

had the side of my face look like a horse kicked it. Its better

now. I am still numb in a lot of areas, but its coming back

slowly. I was a bit worried about my lower lip...but just in

the last two days it has started to tingle. I accidently bit

it (not hard to do in this condition) and it actually HURT!

YAY! Before it felt like I was biting pasta or something.

Disturbing.

So if I had to rate the discomfort of the three surgeries,

I would rate them as follows (most discomfort to least):

jaw surgery, laser uvula surgery, rf surgery.

There wasn't much pain with the jaw surgery, but the discomfort

was higher in my opinion.

HTH

Hubbard