Georgia

[Guest guest]

Hi Georgia! I saw your last post awhile ago. I'm sure you're happy

to not have to deal with the torture sticks any more. I understand

you wanting to stop, and I'm glad that you're still stretching

somehow. I made it as high as 32 tongue depressors (45mm), then had

to stop for my nasal surgery. I definitely regressed, and am

thinking that I am going to start up again in the next few days. I

started with some serious gum-chewing today (working up from 1 to 5

pieces of Bazooka) and feel like I loosened things up a bit. It's

been 4 weeks since my last td session, and I think I could probably

only do about 25 at this point. I'd at least like to get back where

I was before. I don't want to do it for the rest of my life, but

it's really frustrating to not to have the flexibility that I had

before (although I could live with it, given the trade-off of all

that I can eat now compared to pre-op).

Continued best wishes, Sandy

[Guest guest]

Hi again. Sounds like we're in about the same place. I wish I knew

what my pre-op opening was, but I didn't measure, and I don't

remember my doc measuring it. When I do see him again in May, if

things are about the same, I will ask him--so much happened in my day

before surgery visit that I'm not really sure what all was done.

That jaw locking thing sounds terrible! I hope you're not going to

that dentist any more.

My nasal surgery went very well. I ended up with a severely deviated

septum as a result of my jaw surgery. Initially, I thought I just

had a lot of swelling from the surgery, but after 4 or 5 months, I

began to think it was more than that. My doc decided to refer me to

an ENT, and at my first appointment, it took about 30 seconds for him

to determine that I needed surgery to correct it. My ENT said that

he was surprised that more people didn't end up with a deviated

septum as a result of upper jaw surgery. (But I don't recall anyone

else on this board who had the same result). I had a four-piece

segmental on the upper, which involved a lot of work in the nasal

area. Anyway, I can breathe a ton better through my nose now, and

I'm learning again how to sneeze right. When I had almost no opening

through my right nasal passage, I sneezed a lot with my mouth open.

Then I couldn't sneeze or blow my nose for three weeks after the

surgery, so now I'm trying to remember how to do it all again. If I

sneeze too hard, I feel like my jaw is popping out of place, so I'm

always very cautious. It shouldn't be too hard to do, but it seems

like it's taking way too much brain power to try to figure this out.

Take care, Sandy