Metal Mouth Message Board

congrats on the 'next stage'! your attitude is awesome :) I am 9 days post op and still numb from my lower eyelid down to my chin. some spots are less than other- like my nose has some sensation...but my cheeks and chin and lips are quite numb. just me- or does it seem like a lot compared to most pe...

wow! your mouth sure loaded you up with a nice stack of problems! I had BSSO/Lefort I/genio last week- so although i'm not on the same timeline as you, i'm not too far ahead of ya. Feel free to ask me anyyy questions you can think of- and I know your going to get through it all just fine

hmm see that would be a good plan to go after them...if I could only open my mouth wider. I can barely even see into my mouth oh well...

Problems to warrant my surgery were: - boerings arthrosis and hypoplasia due to uneven muscle use in my jaw from only being able to chew on my right side -a clicky jaw - receeding chin -a sliding motion instead of a biting motion I'm one week after surgery and it feels veryyy cool to have a proper b...

Day 8 thank you alll for the encouragement! last night I was feeling so good I decided I would go a few extra hours between my painkiller to see how the pain was....haha I think I got a bit optimistic about that one because MAN was I in pain this morning. Guess I'm not quite as good as I thought, b...

Day 7 today, and yarr..I had my turnaround! It was VERY sudden indeed. We're both on the upswing now, hurray! Obviously feeling GOOD is all in context, but compared to days 1-5 I felt great today. Walked to the bank and back (wearing a big scarf to cover the 8 chins i currently have incase I saw any...

One Week I take that as a positive thing :) I'm sure your not fatter either! I have pretty hefty cheeks, even without the swelling. So today was my turnaroud day, at one week exactly....finalllllly starting to feel human again! Here was my best attempt at a smile! http://i151.photobucket.com/albums...

after 6 days , heres my profile (with a very swollen cheeks and neck still!) http://i151.photobucket.com/albums/s142/kate0310/profilebna.jpg its pretty hard to tell what the change will be with all the swelling (im sure not much), but hey, I've got a chin now! -my face has no movement still, at all ...

I can join the paranoid club too about things moving around. Everytime I get a new type of pain, like a sharp pain in my ear, or a new ache in my chin, within 2 seconds my mind is saying... INFECTION FOR SURE ...--> its hard to not assume the worst Im only a week in so trying to relax about things s...

does anyone know what the average pain level should be after one week...?
im still needing my 'torodal' pain killers and its Day 7 and I feel like most people here were done their painkillers after a few days.

Arianna, your probably just finishing surgery now so I just wanted to send my best wishes and i'm sure everything went perfectly!!

I'm on Day 6 post-op- so if you have any questions feel free to ask me because it's all VERY fresh in my mind.

Good Luck!!

I had mine done in Canada- so i'm not sure what it is in $US... but in Canadian$ I paid $3000 for upper/lower/genio...and hospital stays are free here so there was no extra for that. I have 75% coverage from the government so in the end it wasn't bad. I too didn't shop around because my surgeon is o...

yarr, im glad you finally got some sleep! I finalllly got some last night too- I bought a humidifyer and it was a life saver- especially for the throat. I think i slept 3 hours, awake an hour, and then back to sleep for 2.5 hours. much better than the previous days. were almost at a week- things are...

so I just got back from seeing my surgeon today- and good news..no thrush!! he said that my throat just got really irriated by the breathing tubes, and gave me better syringes to clean my mouth with. last night i put a humidifyer in my bedroom, and it made a HUGE difference. I finally slept for a fe...

thanks for sending me that thread.
i cant do anything until my surgeon calls- hes in surgery so ive been waiting a few hours.
until then, im just holding back the tears!