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After shifting and causing my poor tongue enough pain for me to consider a tongue ring (I already had enough holes from the darn thing)..today....the darn thing has been removed....
I'm free!
Somewhat. Still at least a year till I am unbraced, but I can TALK again!
You lucky luckyluckyLUCKY thing!!! How I envy you! I am three weeks, 4 days in and SO fed up with this vile item of torture!
How long did you suffer for?
Hopefully, mine will be removed - and then stamped upon - in another 4 weeks time.
Can't wait!
my tongue is like the surface of the moon! Has yours healed yet? Didn't think about yoghurt... maybe ice cream would have the same soothing properties??!!
Actually I went out to lunch with my mother-in-law today and discovered two amazing things....
1) Spinach and melted Brie make a wonderful effective guard for the helix - couldn't feel it at all!
2) Spinach and melted Brie is well nigh impossible to remove from a helix when in polite company. Was in the loo with a toothpick for about ten minutes poking aound and retching...
Congrats Skates, I'm still a few months off getting my helix removed but thankfully i've almost learnt to live with it (apart from a few speech issues), can't wait!
Ben, I look forward to that day for you. I know how awful it is. I speak for a living so it's great to be able to talk like a grown up again. I know....