Re: I had an elastic break.

[Guest guest]

Mel you look great. Love the green shirt to match

your green bruising. Did you have lower jaw

and a genioplasty only??

[Guest guest]

Rymi, Yeah just lower jaw advancement and genio. Well and 3 wisdom

teeth taken out too. I thought the green tank top was a nice touch

too, lol. And thanks for saying I look great, nice to hear after

being swollen up like a beach ball and only being able to drink stupid

meal replacement stuff. Oo, although I have discovered I can eat jell-

o by sucking it through my front teeth (lovely image eh?).

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> Mel you look great. Love the green shirt to match

> your green bruising. Did you have lower jaw

> and a genioplasty only??

[Guest guest]

Not a freak at all. I think susan fiddly had an elastic break almost

immediately after surgery -- or maybe it was a bit later. Anyhow, her

surgeon was more than an hour away, and her ortho was closer, so she

just went and asked him to replace it.

My surgeon told me I broke all mine in the first night post op, while I

was still in the recovery area. If so, I don't remember it. (I do,

however, wonder what exactly I said and did while I was still under the

spell of the morphine. I remember having odd hallucinations, which I

knew were hallucinations, all that night. Later, I went back to that

same recovery area when I was a caregiver, not the patient, and I was

astonished at how different it looked. I remembered screen doors that

slammed during the night. Thank God I had some wonderful Bach cds and a

player. I am firmly convinced that their beauty and orderly progression

helped give me what little sanity I had that night...)

I went home completely unbanded, not wired, with a splint. Didn't have

more bands for several weeks...

Cammie

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> Hey, tomorrow it'll be two weeks since I had my surgery and I'm

> feeling great. I'm getting somewhat tired of the liquid diet, but

> hey, who doesn't right?? I'm still bruised (I posted some new pics,

> folder called ) but it's going away nicely. However, last

> night I had one of my elastics break that was holding my jaws

> together. I'm not really overly concerned because tomorrow I'm going

> to my orthodontist to have the elastics changed anyway and it was

just

> one elastic so my jaws are still being held together, but was

> wondering if anyone else has had this happen, if I'm just a freak of

> the orthodontic community, lol.

[Guest guest]

Mel

Im having the same surgery probably nov dec. At anytime

was it ever mentioned maybe upper also or was it allways

just lower. Were thos 3 teeth pulled at the same at

your jaw surgery.?? thanks for your answers

GOOD HEALING

[Guest guest]

You have a definite improvement in your appearance since the surgery,

and its only been 2 weeks!! Congrats!

Kate

[Guest guest]

Good to hear I went almost my entire two weeks without breaking an

elastic then, hehe. My oral surgeon is about a 6 hour drive away

and since I'm at my parents right now my ortho is an hour and a half

away right now, but like I said I'm heading there tomorrow anyway so

I wasn't really concerned, just wondered if it was common.

I was on dilaudid for the first after surgery and now I'm on

morphine. Drugs don't really effect me much at all. I had no

hallucinations, no feeling of " high " , it takes care of the pain

fine, but then again I'm hardly in any pain at all. They would

probably put me on the Tylenol 3s (with codeine) but I'm allergic to

codeine. I'm expecting to go to just advil soon.

> >

> > Hey, tomorrow it'll be two weeks since I had my surgery and I'm

> > feeling great. I'm getting somewhat tired of the liquid diet,

but

> > hey, who doesn't right?? I'm still bruised (I posted some new

pics,

> > folder called ) but it's going away nicely. However,

last

> > night I had one of my elastics break that was holding my jaws

> > together. I'm not really overly concerned because tomorrow I'm

going

> > to my orthodontist to have the elastics changed anyway and it

was

> just

> > one elastic so my jaws are still being held together, but was

> > wondering if anyone else has had this happen, if I'm just a

freak of

> > the orthodontic community, lol.