Re: Joint pain - second update

[Guest guest]

Hi Marsha:

Yes, I have the therabite also. Your doctor gave you one? I had

to go to their website to order mine. Still waiting to see if the

insurance will reimburse me.

It seems a lot better than the popsicle sticks that I had to use

right after the first surgery. (A couple of us dubbed them " torture

sticks " ). I only got to use the therabite a little while before my

latest surgery but I could tell it was helping. Don't know how long

before I get the okay to start back on it. Sorry to hear about your

pain. Those muscle relaxants should help with the exercising too.

My doc put me on some back when I did the torture sticks to help me

be able to stretch better.

Anyway, I'm delighted to find someone using the therabite.

Please let me know how you progress. I can use some encouragement

to make myself keep at it when I get to use it again.

Georgia

> Well, the lovely medievil apparatus my OS gave me to help stretch

my

> jaw muscles seems to be working. The actual name of it is

Therabite.

>

> Has anyone else used one of these? I've gone from barely one

finger

> opening to 2 fingers since Wednesday. Of course on Thursday and

> Friday I felt like my face had gone to the gym for the first time

in

> 10 years.

>

> The pain has not diminished, I am still taking 2 to 3 percocet

daily

> and a muscle relaxer at night, but being able to open more is

> encouraging, and it is a lot easier to eat, I had popcorn for the

> first time since surgery tonight, it was wonderful!

>

> I have my first visit with my ortho on Wednesday, it will be

almost

> 10 weeks since my surgery. Hopefully by then I will be able to

open

> enough so that it is not too painful.

>

> Well thanks everyone for listening,don't know what I would do

without

> all of you who actually understand what all of this is like.

>

> Marsha

[Guest guest]

Hi Marsha:

Yes, I have the therabite also. Your doctor gave you one? I had

to go to their website to order mine. Still waiting to see if the

insurance will reimburse me.

It seems a lot better than the popsicle sticks that I had to use

right after the first surgery. (A couple of us dubbed them " torture

sticks " ). I only got to use the therabite a little while before my

latest surgery but I could tell it was helping. Don't know how long

before I get the okay to start back on it. Sorry to hear about your

pain. Those muscle relaxants should help with the exercising too.

My doc put me on some back when I did the torture sticks to help me

be able to stretch better.

Anyway, I'm delighted to find someone using the therabite.

Please let me know how you progress. I can use some encouragement

to make myself keep at it when I get to use it again.

Georgia

> Well, the lovely medievil apparatus my OS gave me to help stretch

my

> jaw muscles seems to be working. The actual name of it is

Therabite.

>

> Has anyone else used one of these? I've gone from barely one

finger

> opening to 2 fingers since Wednesday. Of course on Thursday and

> Friday I felt like my face had gone to the gym for the first time

in

> 10 years.

>

> The pain has not diminished, I am still taking 2 to 3 percocet

daily

> and a muscle relaxer at night, but being able to open more is

> encouraging, and it is a lot easier to eat, I had popcorn for the

> first time since surgery tonight, it was wonderful!

>

> I have my first visit with my ortho on Wednesday, it will be

almost

> 10 weeks since my surgery. Hopefully by then I will be able to

open

> enough so that it is not too painful.

>

> Well thanks everyone for listening,don't know what I would do

without

> all of you who actually understand what all of this is like.

>

> Marsha

[Guest guest]

Once upon a time there was a picture of a therabite thingie here...

Or on another site.

It reminded me of a foot pedal for a dictating machine, in that it

opened itself back up, unless one put pressure on it. Which, I

reckon, is how it does its job.

The child on the learning channel, the one who had no lower jaw, a

forked tongue (not created surgically) and great difficulties in

swallowing normally, had to have his mouth worked by his surgeon,

daily. (He was very young, away from most of his family, and would

not let his mom go in there with a rubber-coated apparatus to do the

thing. His dear doc, who was dedicated to his success, went to him to

do it daily or so, forcing the jaws apart, and I think they may have

had to sedate him for some parts of the process.

It can't be pleasant, but I'm glad it's working. That's the key!

Cammie

> Well, the lovely medievil apparatus my OS gave me to help stretch

my

> jaw muscles seems to be working. The actual name of it is

Therabite.

>

> Has anyone else used one of these? I've gone from barely one finger

> opening to 2 fingers since Wednesday. Of course on Thursday and

> Friday I felt like my face had gone to the gym for the first time

in

> 10 years.

>

> The pain has not diminished, I am still taking 2 to 3 percocet

daily

> and a muscle relaxer at night, but being able to open more is

> encouraging, and it is a lot easier to eat, I had popcorn for the

> first time since surgery tonight, it was wonderful!

>

> I have my first visit with my ortho on Wednesday, it will be almost

> 10 weeks since my surgery. Hopefully by then I will be able to open

> enough so that it is not too painful.

>

> Well thanks everyone for listening,don't know what I would do

without

> all of you who actually understand what all of this is like.

>

> Marsha

[Guest guest]

Once upon a time there was a picture of a therabite thingie here...

Or on another site.

It reminded me of a foot pedal for a dictating machine, in that it

opened itself back up, unless one put pressure on it. Which, I

reckon, is how it does its job.

The child on the learning channel, the one who had no lower jaw, a

forked tongue (not created surgically) and great difficulties in

swallowing normally, had to have his mouth worked by his surgeon,

daily. (He was very young, away from most of his family, and would

not let his mom go in there with a rubber-coated apparatus to do the

thing. His dear doc, who was dedicated to his success, went to him to

do it daily or so, forcing the jaws apart, and I think they may have

had to sedate him for some parts of the process.

It can't be pleasant, but I'm glad it's working. That's the key!

Cammie

> Well, the lovely medievil apparatus my OS gave me to help stretch

my

> jaw muscles seems to be working. The actual name of it is

Therabite.

>

> Has anyone else used one of these? I've gone from barely one finger

> opening to 2 fingers since Wednesday. Of course on Thursday and

> Friday I felt like my face had gone to the gym for the first time

in

> 10 years.

>

> The pain has not diminished, I am still taking 2 to 3 percocet

daily

> and a muscle relaxer at night, but being able to open more is

> encouraging, and it is a lot easier to eat, I had popcorn for the

> first time since surgery tonight, it was wonderful!

>

> I have my first visit with my ortho on Wednesday, it will be almost

> 10 weeks since my surgery. Hopefully by then I will be able to open

> enough so that it is not too painful.

>

> Well thanks everyone for listening,don't know what I would do

without

> all of you who actually understand what all of this is like.

>

> Marsha