Re: I have a couple of questions...

February 4, 2005

I had both upper and lower sugery (lower forward) on Dec. 22. I

teach so I also have to talk a lot for my job. I went back 2 weeks

after my surgery. I was just banded shut though. The kids could

understand me okay. I had to have surgery again Thurs (Feb 3) on

just my upper and I am talking okay again. I would say the biggest

thing is that it starts to ache when I talk too much. I would

recommend that you take at least a couple of weeks and then see if

you could play it by ear. I think all people probably recover at

different rates.

Good luck with anything. The people on here are really helpful so

don't be afraid to ask.

<melissadouthwright@y...> wrote:

>

> I just thought of something, I work at a call centre (I do

incoming

> and make car reservations for Avis Rent-A-Car) and the woman at my

> oral surgeon's office said I'd likely need at least 6 weeks off

> because my job is talking on the phone for 8 hours a day. I'm

> having lower jaw surgery (having it brought forward) only, for

those

> who have had that, how long before you were talking completely

> normal?

>

> Also, I have acid reflux and take 1 Nexium every day and I saw in

a

> few posts people have trouble with heart burn after surgery who

> didn't have problems before hand. I'm going to be asking the

> pharmacist if I could just crush up the Nexium into a drink to get

> it everyday.

February 5, 2005

Just wanted to thank everyone for their input. I'm much more

relaxed about getting the jaw surgery done now. I meet with the

surgeon on March 3 and I'll let you all know how it went and I did

write down all the questions I wanted to ask him. Will keep you

updated.

Thanks,

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