! Re: Chin sensations-Irish!

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- 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

> > > ,

> > >

> > > Hello and glad to read you are 10 days postop already. I'm

> going

> > to

> > > go out on a limb here and say that I don't think you can do

> > anything

> > > to subdue the tinglies. For me, the sensations are

> not " reachable "

> > > or scratchable. Feels like my chin is 10 layers thick. But to

> > help

> > > you become distracted from it, take heart that you do have

these

> > long

> > > periods of 30 minutes of some type of feeling. Tinglies, zips,

> > zaps,

> > > zings are good news! I would hope the throbbing you feel falls

> > into

> > > the same " good news " category. I only wish I had more feeling

> in

> > my

> > > chin, in order to feel confident that it is coming back to

> life. I

> > > do get tinglies everyday, but they're literally only for 5

> seconds

> > at

> > > a time, then done until the next day. I'm three months post op

> > from

> > > Surgery 2, so I've been numb in that area for 9 months (Surgery

> 1

> > was

> > > last July and that's when the numbness started). So I know

it's

> > not

> > > pleasant, but it sounds like things are regenerating in there.

> > >

> > > But having said all that, if anyone has indeed found a tried

and

> > true

> > > recipe for alleviating the annoying sensations, please share!

> > >

> > > Irish!

> > >

> > >

> > > > Only

> > > > complaint is those damn burning tinglies that come and

> > > > go in my chin. Can't figure out how to stop it once it

> > > > starts and it is so distracting. Only thing that

> > > > seems to help is either time or relaxing my lower jaw

> > > > and trying to distract myself.

> > > >

> > > > Anyone ever figure a way of how to subdue the

> > > > sensation. It hits like one small spot usually between

> > > > my lower lip and bottom of chin and throbs for

> > > > sometimes 30 minutes or so. Trying to rub does not

> > > > help because it is numb on the outside.

> > > >

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