Re: 3 months post op... and OUCH!

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Hi Jayar,

Congrats on 3 months! All the pain now is a great congratulations for

having most of your feeling back, huh? I can sympathize with you

about being reduced back to soft foods after ortho... I definitely am

which is frustrating when eating solid food still seems new and

wonderful! Anyway, I was just wondering.... I have a lot of feeling

back too, but have observed that I do have strange intermittent areas

of numbness still in my gumbs that isn't readily obvious. Could all

the problems with bleeding in your gums and discomfort be due to the

cleaning? Blisters and swelling is pretty unusual for ortho-type

adjustments. Maybe at the cleaning, they nicked you and you didn't

feel it fully.... or they scraped and you couldn't feel it to tell

them it was too much or too sensitive? Could they have irritated a

site for one of your plates or screws if they didn't know where they

were- thus causing swelling? I worry about that kind of thing when I

will have my first cleaning post-op. Also, I was surprised that

your surgeon even ok'd the cleaning so soon after surgery! You are

lucky! I came back from Russia after a month of drinking black tea

all day long and my teeth were terribly stained but my surgeon told

me to wait on the cleaning anyway.... so who knows?! They are all

different! Regardless, I hope your discomfort subsides, and again,

congrats! It's all downhill from here!

Katja

> Today is 3 months for me. I had upper, lower, and genio, and I

have

> about 90% of all feeling back. The doctor says that I should be at

> 100% in 2 weeks. I had an ortho appointment on Tuesday to get

my

> ortho wires out for cleaning. I had the cleaning, went back, and

they

> put a square wire in the upper and lower. I also got 4 elastics

> installed. OUCH! This is the worst pain that I have had so far!

I

> started to eat solids again 2 weeks ago, but I am now back on soft

> foods. I definitely can not chew. To top it off, my face is

> swollen again, and I have been bleeding a lot from one of the teeth

> from the swelling in the gums. I also coincidentally have blisters

on

> the top and underneath of my tongue! So... the surgical part is

fine,

> but the ortho part sucks. Thank GOD I only have 4.5 more months of

> this!

>

> Jayar