how are you doing with talking?

[Norrie]

I'm gonna spend a week-2 weeks in solitary confinement after i get bonded.

I am so, so glad that I took four days off work, worked one, and then had another three days off. Not because I was in pain, but because I was just so dang frustrated by eating and speaking. It's been two weeks as of today, and the eating is much better (I can eat thick, oatmeal-type stuff easily), and the talking seems better in the mornings. Slooooow, but steady.

Mostly I just keep telling every single person that I come across that I got braces, so they understand the lisp. Totally defeats having lingual braces, but whatever.

My 12 year old daughter (who has regular braces), has to ask, "what?" or "pardon?" after every.single.thing I say, She still can't understand me.

[keybgamer]

Norrie wrote:
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>
> I am so, so glad that I took four days off work, worked one, and then had another
> three days off. Not because I was in pain, but because I was just so dang frustrated
> by eating and speaking. It's been two weeks as of today, and the eating is much
> better (I can eat thick, oatmeal-type stuff easily), and the talking seems better
> in the mornings. Slooooow, but steady.
>
> Mostly I just keep telling every single person that I come across that I got braces,
> so they understand the lisp. Totally defeats having lingual braces, but whatever.
>
>
> My 12 year old daughter (who has regular braces), has to ask, "what?" or "pardon?"
> after every.single.thing I say, She still can't understand me.


I should just stop being a big baby and realize that if i wanna get better, i have to toughen up and go through with it.
I hear wax and silicone generally improves the speech though...any experience, Norrie?

[Norrie]

I think that the wax really helps, or maybe I just have a psychological dependency on it now. On bad days, I use a full strip across the top, and another full strip across the bottom. On better days, I just use 1/2 up top and 1/2 on the bottom. Right now I have none on the bottom (trying it out), and 1/2 up top.

I've gone two full days without wax, and it was a bad idea both times. I think that I'm just sort of going to depend on wax to get me through. And I do think that it helps with speech, because my tongue knows that it's "safe" to touch the teeth up front.

[keybgamer]

[quote="Norrie"]I think that the wax really helps, or maybe I just have a psychological dependency on it now. On bad days, I use a full strip across the top, and another full strip across the bottom. On better days, I just use 1/2 up top and 1/2 on the bottom. Right now I have none on the bottom (trying it out), and 1/2 up top.

I've gone two full days without wax, and it was a bad idea both times. I think that I'm just sort of going to depend on wax to get me through. And I do think that it helps with speech, because my tongue knows that it's "safe" to touch the teeth up front.[/quote]

Great, gonna pre-order a tubload full of them.

[Norrie]

I used traditional wax for exactly three minutes. It crumbled, and completely fell apart in my mouth. I'm not sure the brand that we're not allowed to mention, but I order them on Amazon. So far I've only gotten lots of 10, but I think that next time around, I'll order 50.

[keybgamer]

since I'm new to this forum, I didn't know we were not allowed to mention brands. my bad.

[Lalaloo]

I am lisping, but this is just my 3rd day with braces.