6 months post op on 7/17 - update

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Hi everyone. Just thought I would post on my progress to date.

Almost 6 months (can't believe it has been that long and that I

still have so many problems) from upper, lower, sliding genio. I am

still numb, odd feeling in my whole chin area and lower lip and very

tight there (so it bothers me to talk as it feels so stiff), still

kinda numb on the roof of my mouth especially near the teeth. I am

still having problems eating and chewing my food, can't bite into

anything so I cut everything up and can't take crunchy foods (can't

eat like a normal bowl of cereal as the crunching just doesn't feel

good) and I find myself almost choking on food, trying to get it

down, so weird. I am still having problems with constant headaches

everyday from my left TMJ joint and just hurt especially in that

area, like a pulling achy feeling that goes up into my head on the

left side and produces headaches that don't really go away with

tylenol. I have told both my surgeon and ortho about it and my

surgeon tells me its the muscles and to wait until 1 yr post op

before exploring TMJ options. My ortho tells me to talk to my

surgeon so basically no help in this dept which stinks b/c I can't

take the pain and I am tired of headaches. I don't know what to do

anymore. Has anyone else had problems like this with I assume TMJ

kind of problems on one side.

I went to my ortho this morning and I asked her how much longer with

the braces. She doesn't really know but she said probably 1-2 years

which is not good (it will be 2 years with them on in October), I

can see why though b/c my teeth are a mess (midlines way off, half

tooth still only touches when I bite down). So I now have power

chains on my top and bottom teeth going back almost to my back teeth

and now I am once again in rubber bands (have only been out of

rubber bands for 4 weeks since my surgery in January). I have 1

rubber band now in the front going diagonally from top to bottom.

She is trying to shift my midlines which are really off. Just

keeping my mouth open in her chair made my head start to ache and

she had to keep telling me to open (apparently I kept closing more),

it is tiring to keep my mouth open. My teeth were very sore when

she was pushing those power chains/ties on, more so than usual so

maybe some feeling is returning to my front teeth or something. She

hopes that the rubber band doesn't make my headaches worse. Right

now my left side is killing me and my head hurts. When I open a

little bit it hurts alot so I am not happy right now.

I feel like such a mess

And I'm tired of complaining how bad I feel at 6 months post op. I

wish I was normal again.