! Re: Chin sensations-Irish!

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Neal,

Don't worry too much about loosing the tinglies. I, too, lost them

(mostly) after about 2 months. The right side feeling has been

coming back strong almost from day one and is still coming back more

and more everyday. I'd guess I have about 90% of the feeling back

there. Different story on the left side. It has always been totally

numb and I'd pretty much given up on it coming back. Then about 3

weeks ago, I started getting hot and cold sensation. Now, I guess I

have about 40% of the feeling back on the left side. It feels

exactly like the right side did, only about 3 months late! I'm

confident that I'll have most of the feeling back before long!

Hang in there! You're on the recovery side now and you just need

time to heal up!!

Jeff

> - I missed your original post, but caught up on this one.

> Just to make you feel better, my tinglies were excrutiating for a

> couple of weeks. It was constant in weeks 2 and 3 post-op

throughout

> my lips and entire front of my chin. It was more like pins and

> needles than mild tingles. Any movement, especially walking or

> bending over, would aggravate it.

>

> But you know what? The tinglies are gone now (2 months post-op).

I'm

> regaining sensation on one side, but the other side is totally

numb.

> Now I wish I had the pins and needles back on the numb side! The

> tinglies are a good sign, and I would actually prefer them to the

> numbness because you know the tinglies are a precursor to

recovering

> sensation.

>

> --Neil

>