Metal Mouth Message Board

There's always some asymmetry due to various factors like how you sleep & which is your dominant side. I still have swelling here or there & it's usually just on one side. At this point I couldn't even tell you what side I sleep on because of the constant moving around since surgery. It'll b...

My sisters wedding is finally over with. My god, what a pallava. Naturally my braces are due to come off the week AFTER the wedding. As soon as she said next visit they can come off I knew that it would end up being after the wedding. God forbid this not be immortalised in family photos. I'm getting...

Congratulations! Thats great that you can feel changes. I've been starting to get a few face tingles. I lost feeling in my top gum but was really lucky everywhere else so I think it's just what little I lost coming back. It must be so tough not being able to feel your lips. I get grossed out cleanin...

I feel ya on the things not tasting the same & it does affect your appetite. Food needs to touch your tongue for you to really taste it, because you're not mashing things up & swirling them around your mouth like you would normally you don't get the same taste. Sometimes I feel like I just c...

Ugh today I woke up to a major migraine, I've been lucky so far. I haven't had one since surgery. I get the full on go blind, pass out ones when I'm stressed out. I took the meds I have for it & spent the day spacey & washed out. Also I have a strep throat, probably from all the travel. I'm ...

I just got back from the UK, I saw my orthodontist on Tuesday. She took off the surgical hooks thank god cos I was getting sick of the swiss watch maker precision of cleaning around them & waking up with them embedded in my gum. She changed the elastics configuration so now I have some on the ba...

I've come up with a dog management system, the older two get walked as normal & the younger one I take out separately. Hannibal Lecter gets transported with less security. He's not aggressive just crazy so I have to assume he'll do the crazy thing like run into traffic which he did the other day...

He does sound like kind of an a$$. The egotistical surgeon stereotype comes from somewhere. Personally I have behaved myself & done exactly as I was told for the most part but at the same time I have cheated here or there. I rationalise it with having impeccably clean teeth so it's okay if I inc...

Yeh, the nerves in my knees do something like that. Nothing & then zap, nerves heal at something like 1mm a month I read I think. So they do heal just slowly. Plus swelling goes a long way. I'm at my mother's house doing all the mundane stuff until she gets back. It's actually quite nice. By Feb...

I have officially reached my limit for incessantly being offered foods I can't eat. Travelling while not being able to eat is no fun. I was ravenous by the time I arrived at 11pm. My sister basically had me cook the entire Christmas dinner including all the stuff I REALLY wanted to eat but couldn't....

Two fingers width? You're doing better than I am. I can get one finger in. I find the not being able to press your lips together for the lip balm an issue. I use really gloopy gloss because I know it stays on & doesn't end up making your skin greasy. I usually have to use my finger to spread it ...

It wasn't too bad. On one hand I was dying to get the hooks off but on the other I wasn't sure how it would go without being able to open much. It was fine, tugging & that snapping that happens when they take the elastics on & off wasn't great but tolerable. They used the same wire again so ...

I had the big move today, I say 'had' I'm still waiting on the movers. They're 3 hours late so I'm sat on the floor next to an overflowing suitcase clock watching. I was considerate so I moved all the furniture into a handy pile for them so I don't have anywhere to sit while I wait. All my boxes &am...

The kicker with my roommate is that it's the third move since May. Her girlfriend kicked her out so I moved her from there & she ended up crashing in my studio until we got this place together. It's like the groundhog day of living situations. Luckily because I did everything when we moved in, t...

Things are coming along my crazy roommate has moved out so she's out of my hair while I move. She has kindly left all the cleaning etc to me like the gem that she is. Xmas is coming up fast but I feel like I'm in a better place with all the stuff I need to do. I still have work deal which has been i...