Suture Removed!!!

I went back to the periodontist yesterday for my suture removal.  I was glad to be going because it wasnt bleeding since the last suture done. The procedure took all of 20 minutes.  She took a look at the stitches mouth and said it looked like it was healing nicely and we could remove the suture now. She took a look at the gums and said everything looked amazing.  She cut off the end of the stitch  it hurt me a tiny bit cuz the inside dressing wasnt droped off, She removed the inner dressing and then carefully the suture. Suture removal didnt consume me much but later she did a tough cleaning and which has me shivering ( sensitive areas) and it wasn't fun really! So that's where things stand now.  I'm continuing with soft food, using the oral rinse and brushing my other teeth carefully, avoiding hot liquids and foods.  I go back in 4 weeks for my month checkup.  The periodontist said the gums should be attached by then and I may be able to eat something that requires me to bite into it by that time (but it could be a few more weeks after that depending on how things go) and given a class about the instructions i must follow..

A bit left to heal...!!!

Today, I went in early for my suture removal with my periodontist. I was scared that the gum dressing had fallen off and i reattached, (my dentist remembered me no problem if it fell off and its good not to reattach there, bcoz it may shake the stitched gum if i try to reattach) and bleeding was there two more days not heavy but like saliva secretion. suture removed with almost zero pain and my gum It almost looked so much like my original gums in color that I couldn't tell if it was the new gums or the old gums - not bad! But the tooth from where the blood had come the other day didnt heal properly. The wound was still opened and need some more time to heal perfectly. so my periodontist did stitch again on that gums only and again covered with dressing and given some more instructions to follow.

Day 3 Post Gum Flap session 2

And something happened last night.. I woke up accidentally around 1. 30 am approximately 2 hours after I had gone to bed. When i woke up my mouth was full of blood and clots. There was bloody drool on my pillow, but I dont remember accidentally touching or hitting my face last night it didnt hurt too. I looked in the mirror and my face has no bruise but it feels bruised and it's a little bit puffy. blood keeps coming again and again and the flow wasn't like saliva comes. i was about to rush my doctors for help but it was 2 10 am... How could i ring my docs at this time i was totally in tension. blood wasn't stopping too. Then i had the thought of doing a salt water wash so i took warm salt water and spit it off. i was not allowed to gargle. After a while blood flow went minimum like saliva and i again noticed the time was 3.20.I was pretty tired. stomach was cramping, feeling dizzy and was sweating uncontrollably. i checked my heart beat it was slow from regular. i count around 58 in one minute and i know minimum is 72. May be because of the tension i was going through. blood clots was still there popping out of my mouth and i was totally scared to touch it. my mom pulled one clot out  and it broke but still a big piece of it was hanging touching my lower lips. i tried to remove it but it hurt a tiny bit like a pin prick. so i kept that inside my mouth and again took salt water still blood was coming like saliva. i went to bed thinking that i'll swallow the blood henceforth.
And i slept till 9 30am and woke up with some small clots on mouth,. when i spat it was stained with blood and clot.I have to brush my teeth, but I'm a kind of nervous about it. I'm worried about seeing blood, cramping stomach and so it can hurt me badly i thought. I rinsed very gently with some water, was relieved to see no blood, and carefully began to gently brush any areas away from the gum flap site. When I was done with the top, did the same thing, being careful to avoid the wound area on the bottom. then the dressing cameout from the wound site and i saw blood on the last tooth where they did gum flap from right and it was coagulated where black marks of stitches are visible and i slowly removed the hanging clot of and it hurt a tiny bit.Then i decided to stick the dressing back so that i could hide the bare view of teeth and blood. i carefully did that and Rinse, with slight warm saline water.

Then i had coffee and oats porridge,had medicine, messaged(Just wanted to avoid talking)  my periodentist about the scenario and went back to bed to catch up some nice sleep.. 

Gum Flap Surgery- Session - 2

Yesterday, I ate a big breakfast before heading into my periodontist's office for the surgery. i reached there on time but the receptionist took more than 20 mins to check me in. i really hate the receptionists over there. They acts over smart and nut. my periodontist was there waiting for me. she said what we do first is to check whether the completed part is fully healed and suture removal and then only we are moving on to the other side. i saw a guy, a fresh face there and i thought he may be one from the hospital management group or a nurse/doctor and i thought my periodontist may introduce him. He was looking sad, extra terrestrial and trapped somewhere and doesn't know how to escape.

I kept my specs and earring on the table and sat in the dentist chair and was covered with protective bib and still he was there. If he is from the hospital team he should've left by now and a nurse no way... i remember my cousin sonu's words (who is a nurse) if female nurses are available then they wont appoint male nurses inside if the patient is female... so i asked who is that guy then my Periodontist replied he's a junior doctor, from chennai came here for a week just to monitor some cases and to study from it. i felt irritated and i said  i dont like any other one apart from my doctors are monitoring then Periodontist was about to ask him to move out i looked at him he was looking pathetic and like anytime he'll burst out to cry, i really don't like to hurt someone so i said, for this time its ok. he then stood behind periodontist hiding himself from me. 

My Periodontist checked carefully the right section and informed me that it healed perfectly and now we can remove the suture. i got myself ready to bear the pain and i even imagined how it will be... a tread, going to pull out from the area where they did surgery and it will go through the inside of my flesh and it will be like wax removal or quick pin pricks??? i closed my eyes and held the armrest sooo tightly but nothing happened and i opened my eyes and saw keeping a tiny part of thread on the tray. i asked my periodontist how much time it will take totally to remove suture she said it's finished!!! i didnt even feel it!!! It was sooo far beyond my expectation anyways here, No pain means not no gain isnt it???

And then they again put Q-tips on my mouth, given local anesthesia all the procedures were repeated. i wanted to sleep like last time i did but now they were working on left section so i had to turn my face on right direction and saliva accumulated on left and it was like anytime ooze out even though occasionally they kept suction. This was the greatest discomfort i felt and then i noticed my periodontist was describing some areas to that junior dr who kept himself hidden behind my periodontist and his face pops out back and forth like flash door whenever my periodontist calls him to describe. And that was super funny... and i got some more ideas too from what she was talking so i decided not to sleep and to listen them carefully. I noticed instruments going to and from my mouth, and I noted that there was no blood on anything. I even notice some bloody gauzes coming from my mouth. They were all pale coloured. In between that she gave the suture removed teeth a good cleaning and it hurt me but it was ok kinda pain. It took around 75 minutes to finish the whole procedure. i was really bored and the accumulated saliva on the right side kept irritating me and i was helpless i wasn't allowed to talk and i pointed that nurse to put suction there and she did whenever i asked but still it was horrible. 

After sewing my gums back together my periodontist declared that all the are procedures finished i jump out to the mirror to see whether any swelling is there cuz this time i felt more discomfort and more stitches were there since they had more tooth to work out. And i cleared some more doubts with her too... suddenly i felt my questions will be funny for them and what if she gets angry???  i scold myself to be calm but here i'm Lucky , my periodontist is an absolute sweetheart. she  helped me to figure out what was going to happen after this surgery and eased my worries about the swelling and the discomfort . She explained me how to handle the teeth which suture removed just now and explained the method of brushing and then they gave ice cubes covered inside gloves to keep that place. Swelling and pain would be there tomorrow, she remembered me even though it wasnt there on right side (a small bulge was there but hardly noticed)and then again explained me the do's and dont do's and reminded again not to talk much. And its time to go home and im visiting hospital in a week to get my stitches out....

I'm home now and I'm avoiding talking, but i felt tired of being silent for a long time and plus to that a heavy duty hard feeling of left. Saw movie 'Shaandhar' on laptop and it tempted me to laugh so switch on to 'The Others' my favorite horror movie (The first horror movie i watched when i was a little). I received whatsapp texts from my periodontist asking i how i feel now and she once again advised me to not to talk much(She knows i'm an ultra talkative) and sleep early.  i had medicine and slept as early i can(around 11pm).

Today's medicines

• Mox 500 3 tabs perday upto 5 days
• ketrolac 2 tab perday upto 3 days
• chymoral forte 2 tab perday upto 3 days
• imole plus 1 tab perday
• metrogyl DG Gel  To massage on the suture removed teeth)
• plus some vitamin caps too

The Gloves they gave me:

Gum flap surgery- session 1

Splint fixing

I did fixed retainers/ splint thereon my bottom mid 4 incisors last Wednesday at my dentist's clinic, Now i don't need to use bottom retainers since they are transformed as fixed hehe... but i missed the lower one without that somewhere there is a definition missing so i worn bottom one too but i was strictly reminded not to use after gum flap... 

Day before that, did some research on internet. Gum surgery poped up some results about gum grafting surgery and I read up on how different people's gum grafting experiences went and thoroughly scared myself. I even watched a Youtube video of an entire gum graft surgery. The donor tissue stuff was completley unknown to me cuz they didnt mention even a single word about it. I talked about this with my dentist and my instant reaction was that I didn't like the idea of having grafted the roof of my jaw with sharpened scalpel and making a channel of blood then the tissue be taken mercilessly and stitched to the lower part where the surgery going on. dentist said that a graft is an old idea and now the flap surgery is popular and they are planning to do periodontal flap surgery not graft surgery and they are inserting a bone powder not donor tissue inside which i dont even feel like something has done... its a minute kinda powder.... and later i found the bone powder is actually made from cadavers not artificial one(My dentist says there is so many substitute composites are there nowadays and not depending on corpses actually). and he added a balance has to be struck between educating yourself online (good) and scaring yourself half to death (bad).

My recommendation Don't watch the video if u are soo much worried of surgery and the procedures. if ur light hearted or sensitive you'll scare yourself silly and you might throw up a little. Else please do a research before getting ready for a surgery clarify your doubts with your doctor, you have the right to know what are they actually planning to do on your body... But not being a medico don't expect to digest all things but you will definitely understand the framework. The read-up on experiences are helpful, but ignore the horror stories. Most of them are outdated so the bad news won't apply to you. Look for the positive reports. Most people don't write about the smooth operations, but they are the more likely scenario. The same was true when I researched orthognathic surgery and nose, and mine went fine. It seems that few patients are motivated to write about their experience when the message is, "No problems, mate."

I clarified my doubts when i saw my dentist to fix splints. He opened a youtube video on his laptop, it was the actual surgery i mean gum flap surgery in detail and described all procedures.


Flap surgery- session 1

i reached along with my parents on time. Actually the date they shifted from 2 to 7th since there was a national strike announced on 2nd.

Dr Arunima welcomed me with her lovely smile and remembered me she's going to do right lower part today where i have lesser no of teeth(1 molar i extracted from there long ago) cuz Ganeshotsavam going on there so we need to finish it early before road get block. I sat in the dentist chair and gave my specs to the nurse(Rohini) to keep then they covered me with a protective bib The periodontist gave me the run down of what was going to happen and what I needed to know. then she took two big Q-tips and swabbed the areas that she was going to work on with numbing agent. i felt the needle going in even if there is no pain.

The periodontist and the nurse kept a conversation about random topics going and i felt sleepy i winked my eyes for sometime and im sure i dozed off keeping the mouth open. i came back to conscious when periodontist asked me to turn my face a bit for stitching. I was surprised when I saw a thread being pulled from my mouth. I didn't realize that the procedure was almost done and she was already sewing my gum. I found the long, black thread to be fascinating. It is not the dissolving kind so I need to go back for the stitches to be removed. and they finished off everything by covering the area with a gum plaster 

Do's

• Saline water wash 3 times.
• Use mouth wash 2 times.
• Be normal don't act like a big thing happened.
• Do your usual routines. work/study everything.
• Keep and take ice pack on ur cheek.

Don't Do's

• Brushing is restricted to that affected area
• Don't gargle just spit 
• Don't bite or chew using that area
• Don't talk much

I was given some medicines too

• Novamox LB 3 times a day
• ketorol 2 times a day
• imole plus 1 time
• chymoral forte 2 tab perday 

and some vitamin caps too

I reached home around 5 in the evening had a quick shower and saw movie the blood father on my laps. i received some messages from my periodontist asking how i feel now. had a liquid diet and I slept on my back just not to hit my face on pillow.

Finally Dates came

Today i got the idea of what they actually mean by gum surgery. They gonna do it as 5 parts two upper and three lower at first they said lower 2 but later changed to 3. well 3 sections means one day left section  other day right section  and middle one any other day.Surgery will be done under local anesthesia and suggested for a splint/ fixed retainers on this lower mid section as those teeth has mobility so there are chances of tooth fall while they do surgery. We together decided the date and it is 2nd september.

Then My periodontist did a deep cleaning applying local anesthesia and i shivered when it touch numb area as usual cuz of reflex action. periodontist smiled and asked oopps sensitivity isnt it?? but the dental hygienist/nurse Rohini press my shoulder tight by taking precaution me not to move which i ever hated. i felt like she is acting like she'll do it forcefully if i say no... hmmmm i'm not seeing a deep cleaning for the first time and im sure my doctors  have no complaints regarding my co-operation....definitely!!!

Meeting Up with Periodontist

As my dentist Suggested i met Dr. Arunima, my Periodontist at Ananthapuri hospital today afternoon. i was informed to reach there around 1. 30 and i reached 15 mins late. my dentist was there and he assured me it would all go well. 

Dr. Arunima called me around 3.30 and she did a quick checkup. She is soo lovely and sooo much friendly. I thank God for giving me this kinda doctors on my whole treatment journey apart from Dr Shivapriyan whom Dr Oommen kicked out (like odd man out) from my case. See i'm a patient and though my eyes, when a patient consult a doctor he will be with some problems, if a person doesn't have any problem then there is no question arises for meeting a doctor, so the doctor should have the capacity to care his patient not to be harsh so that the patient hate the idea of consulting him.

Dr Arunima Suggested for a gum flap surgery as my teeth's underlying bone and gum are weak. i didn't feel afraid but i was tensed just because i'm super tired of whole tooth business and i needed some rest. Then she did a quick deep cleaning and took some pics of my gums and suggested me to consult her after a week with blood results to decide surgery dates.

Retainers !!!!!!

I was informed to collect my retainers today and i reached my dentist's clinic in the morning around 10AM. He explained about the do's and dont do's!!! the most funny thing was i feel super funny to talk wearing it... i had an outing with my family after and i think i dont need to tell how super funny it was.... when we cant talk properly we feel a kinda of uncontrollable urge to talk. I talked talked and talked and others looked at me with sympathy they may have thought i've stuttering problem and i enjoyed all of that. i even had cutlets with the retainers on which i was instructed not to:):)

Finally Braces Off !!!

They’re off!

Yippeee!!!

Now i can run my tongue across your teeth, i mean when i run my tounge i can feel feel my teeth and it feels amazing. i need to wear retainers now jus for the final stage of my treatment and that is to keep this alignment permanently.

Miss U!!!

Dr Jeomy took around one hour to polish my teeth when my braces were off. IT SMELLED HORRIBLE! Then I remembered I needed a retainer. He put a kind of clay(model wax i guess!!) on my top and bottom teeth and took it out to make my retainer. IT ALSO TASTED HORRIBLE! Im gonna get my retainer next week. MMM treatments all are somewhat over and i'm happy but again i remembered to consult a Gum specialist Dr Arunima for some gum treatment... May be cuz i've some gum infection.

My first better smile Showing teeth!!!

4TH JAW-NIVERSARY

Hi friends today is my 4TH JAW-NIVERSARY and BRACES. ARE. STILL. ON. 
I do not know life without them. Family and friends don't really know me without braces, I think. I currently look like I'm pushing 18. 

Present Updates:

1: Braces still there and thats y im getting gums infections regularly like once in a month basis.

2: Numbess: Partial numbess is there on left lower set of teeth. ( This numbness i donot want to go off just cuz i slowly started loving this inconvenience and can not think about a life without it)

3:chewing is still an odd sensation and a bit difficult with some foods

No pictures this time because I am half an year behind on posting it and soon my braces going to come off. So on the next post you'll get updated pictures as well as information. And that will be when my braces gets off.

Three YEARS...!!!!

Hi friends, i'm back after exactly one year....  i wasn't updating much in these days just cuz i didn't had much to tell.. i stopped caring my braces and now started it once again... and oh yeah i got news from my orthodontist my braces will go off within two months, im happy to hear that and sad, i'll miss 'em for sure...!!!!

I came across this old picture and I couldn't believe how awful it made me feel. I remember I felt so self conscious, so embarrassed, so depressed about the way I used to look. 

Three years has passed since my surgery and I am so so grateful every day that I decided to go through this. I feel so happy in my own looks ! 

After

Before

Two Years Post Update...!!!

And, April 25th marked my second Jaw-niversary..... Firstly, I have to apologise for being a rubbish blogger.  I know I haven't posted for a few months and this two year update is coming on 4th may, 

So 2 year on... Exactly Two year ago on April 25, 2012, I was being wheeled into a surgery .I then spent the next two months recovering (you can read all about that in my previous posts). Reflecting on the whole experience I feel SO fortunate. Over the years I’ve read many blogs by people who went through similar surgeries and not all of them went as smoothly as mine.

I honestly think I can attribute the success of my surgery to the amazing care I had pre- during and after surgery. There was Dr Oommen's fantastic team. Dr.Rodney, who made me laugh through the humiliation of having braces in my twenties, the amazingly talented Dr. Oommen Aju Jacob and Dr Jeomy Zachariah Oommen and Dr. Murukan, who answered every single one of my questions and who let me know I was in safe hands all the way, and of course, my wonderful, beautiful mother who fed me, let me sleep in her bed and generally did absolutely everything for me the first four weeks after surgery when I was needing her care like an infant. my sweet sister who visited me, brought me presents, and even made me homemade soup, my father who welcomed me into  home with open arms, I truly am blessed to have had such wonderful people at my side and I thank God for that often.

Amazingly I don’t really have anything to tell you. Besides the obvious fact that my face looks different, it’s almost as if nothing ever happened. I gained back the weight I lost almost the moment I could eat, I have the feeling back in 99.9% of my face and I’m even (almost) used to seeing my profile in the mirror. Every so often when I’m putting on makeup I feel myself rub against plastic covered area under my lips but it doesn’t hurt at all, it just seems a little weird.

Yes I still have numbness on my left lips and chin (and will for life) but other than that there’s no remnant of this historic surgery. Considering I spent close to a decade researching it, wondering about it and worrying, it’s so odd to just have it done. No more looking at other people’s before and afters fantasizing about what my face will look like, and no more self-consciously trying to hide my under-bite. A part of my life is over and honestly I couldn’t be happier.

I doubt anyone is still reading this blog, but in case you are... I thought I would put some pictures up. I still have my braces on and no idea when I will be getting them off, but everything is going great. I'm very happy I had the surgery done.

Ulcers.... 1,2....3!!!!

I saw Dr. Rodney last week. It seems as though that the green elastics that I've had to wear across the molar teeth for the last five weeks worked a tiny bit but i misplaced the hooks. My ortho got disappointed to see the way i wore that. he gave a brief speech about the necessity of wearing elastics once again and advised to use pink code elastics instead of green. Now he says pink one’s are the softest code, i remember he told me before green ones are the softest. When i enquired that he don’t even remember that he don’t even remember his old words. but i know i remember his words, green one are the softest bands which are available...!!!! So now they have me wearing elastics 24 *7.  Now, I don't have a degree in orthodontics or dentistry or anything, so if anyone who does would like to explain all of this to me, I'm all ears. These annoying elastics hurt!!! Really hurts, often i have uncontrollable urge to pull this out but the same time my ortho’s face keeps me continue with it. Well, things aren’t going well with my cheeks, these elastics started scratching my cheeks and three ulcers turned up at the same time, on two lower and one upper lip.... And i stopped wearing elastics since i found ulcers   plus to that a part of dental clip from left upper molar teeth broken and the wire got liberty from being held tight to that joint. It started digging my lip lavishly with its full strength. i’m very uneasy about talking or eating. Torture!  But anyway.  Thats life.   50% normal, 50% weird.

broken part

I had another person contact me today through Facebook regarding jaw surgery after finding my blog. I thought, how are so many people finding this blog? So, I Googled "The Extreme Jaw Lift" and this one pops out on the list! I know it sounds lame, but I thought it was AWESOME!!!

Small But Sharp!!!!

I had another visit to my orthodontist last day evening and had my lower jaw wired onto a new clip. It was really hurting but that is normal after every appointment but later the matter got worse.  The foremost part of clip which opened above the teeth has sharp ends and it was touching and rubbing my tongue and it’s horribly hurts when i try to talk or eat…. I skipped dinner and directly went to bed…. Morning I woke up early in the morning and ringed my surgeon, he was empathetic and fixed my appointment at 10.30am….

I stumbled into my orthodontist’s office at 10. 25:00 am. The clip fixated to my right (which broken and fixed last day) lower braces has been dug in my tongue, and I was unable to bend it or trim it myself. I feel a little uneasy about sticking wire cutters into the very back of mouth, where I cannot see, and attempting to clip off some excess metal. I was also having extreme difficulty eating because every time I moved my mouth to chew, a little more of my tongue would get scraped off. So, taking the intelligent route, I went to visit my surgeon. He informed me that my right lower clip had actually sharp ends which were digging my tongue. After adjusting it he advised to apply ointment on the sides of tongue which has rashes and take saline water twice a day... I feel much better already. But it still hurts; I think it’s just because of those rashes. So its ok I think.

Again.... Fever!!!!

I have noticed something a little odd. An ulcer turned up in the numb area of my left lower lip, it doesn't caused any pain since it is on the numb area… No pain means no gain or what??? hehehe but i think its true, It was not hurting so i ignored that completely, but after almost one week, it's started complaining in other ways... It doesn't hurt or feel anything but my head aches when it touches with something, i mean food or water and after one more day its size bulged and my lips and chin feels heavy and a bit swollen….. Moreover, my facial muscles and ear were very sore and had a rise in temperature also…. My lips and chin were still very swollen and I was taking maximum pain relief.  I ringed my surgeon thinking that the temperature caused due to this ulcer but he advised that can be cuz of sinus infection and he was true!!!Another sinus infection going on over here….. My surgeon advised to take steam and Imole plus!!!.... Plus Side, ulcer started winding up slowly and the minus side, the fever strongly going on its incredible journey…. 

Fever means sitting inside home doing nothing, sleeping or in bed for 24 hrs which i ever hate... last time when i had fever i was at bed almost all time.... Luckly, this time i got some gaps, i means intervals between fever attacks, just two or three hours but i maximum utilized that. I also bought some new nail polish last week, i do have a bit of an obsession with my nails, and did this.. There are some seriously amazing nail arts out there, like spiders and flowers, my free hand skills aren't that good yet, but practise makes perfect!

18 Months Post Surgery..!!!!

Well, Tomorrow, 25th October 2013, marks my 18 months anniversary post surgery.Now, there are days and days that I don't even think about the fact that I had jaw surgery. Still, I can't yawn without any pain (in fact, it feels good!), I can't bite into anything I want to (though I still don't bite into anything hard, just force of habit), I wake up and my jaw is in the right place ( Often i see dreams about my misplaced jaws) and stays there - little to no shifting. I can move my lower jaw side to side and forward/back (not as much as before, but enough to shift food around in my mouth and I don't notice the difference). Only my numb lip and chin remembers my past days and oh yeah these bands too... But i now im in break with these bands.. Not with any new reason, just because it HURTS, really hurts and that makes me crazy....!!!!!!

So finally... 18 months post surgery, I consider myself 90% back to normal in range of motion, and jaw mobility. My chin and face are still a bit numb, but it doesn't bother me in the least. infact i love the numbness,cuz that remembers me my past days.... I love my numbness. Love it, love it, LOVE it. And, I'm very pleased with my results - and very glad I went through all of that awful-ness that was jaw surgery and recovery.

Moving on to normal life, I have to work on my software testing course, but I have been studying for a test for higher studies for weeks, and had to schedule it for both morning and afternoon sections respectively. Well they were booked, but for that I need to stay at hostel so I moved to Visitation convent hostel. Food is horrible here; the two restaurants nearby are the only consolation I found. Wednesday’s menu was little different, and It was the first day I was able to truly enjoy my dinner at hostel because of my favorite menu, chapatti and chicken curry...I don’t chew everything i eat, usually at home, I keep avoiding this kind of hard food even if it is my favorite but here at hostel after almost two weeks, im seeing something eatable so I tried to consume that by applying all possible ways I can adopt to chew…. I feel my braces pulling on my teeth again, that pressure you feel after an adjustment.  Finally I felt something inside loosen or u can term it as broken!!!! A cracking sound with pain!!! Oh my God!!!!

Today I went to the Orthodontist to check the status of my braces…. He found the clip broken and asked me to visit next Tuesday to fix it up!!!

Shiverry........ Feverry

I've been struggling on and off with a cold and fever the past week or so, which makes wearing the elastics difficult (since I usually need to breathe through my mouth - it's difficult to breathe through my nose) - at one point last week I spit it out in my sleep for the first time in a long time. I woke up with a dull headache and achy jaw! 

I had my monthly appointment today and which went uneventful. I was soo tired cuz of this fever and i was shivering when my ortho adjusting my teeth. he advised not to stop elastics cuz on and off could increase the pain. Now i'm in elastics for another one or two months (for the final push to close my bite a little more). 

My next appointment is in another one or two months. I'm crossing my fingers for that one :)

Long Awaited Appointment

Two weeks gone by no information about my doctors!!! Why they are ignoring me this much??? Don’t know,  getting confused!!! Did they have decided to endup everything which includes me???  Did they think that myself  i'll quit everything if they dont give any mind to my call?? Does this means i should stop bothering them???Don’t know!!! long 3 months from now since i heard a single word from them... this is my first experience with these doctors avoiding me this much when i'm in such kinda an emergency situation... Tried to contact Dr. Jeomy, to inform him that stranger doctor's advise to remove these braces, he have answered my call and said Thursday we have an appointment, not this Thursday next Thursday!!! Means 9^th August….. I was not in a mood to ask him what happened, he didn’t explain either….what happened with me, I know, I was tired, mind was frozen, Brain was not working at all not a single ray of hope left inside my heart to question anything, I have had a strong belief prior that this doctors will be with me in my every stage of treatment, every drop of tears but they ignored me completely when I was desperately needing their help. They left me alone completely alone…

I have finally been in contact with two members of the team today (ortho and surgeon) and I am feeling relieved. Scared and still upset but there is a sense of intense relief from knowing that they havent forgotten about me.

My ortho, tightened my teeth and again requested to wear elastics. He delievered a sppech as usuall regarding the necessity of wearing those elastics...Hmmm I think this time I should wear that….. atleast at night, in the day time im not even gonna think about that….!!!!

Happily depressed........

My left lower molar tooth is hurting whenever I chew or it complaints like hitting with a pin. I don’t go through the day without pain or a headache. I’ve gone back to taking imol like it’s a job….. I’m right back where I started. Tried to contact my doctors but no one answer to my call…. They would call me back when they get  free I thought, I expected and hoped but

No call.

Now, I understand they’re busy BUT I sent a text message explaining that I am in so much pain. I am taking my Imol , Painkiller but the pain does not go away. Its also accompanied by a background headache that lingers on ALL DAY. Im still waiting for a reply and since I sent it tuesday I figure, Ill give it until tomorrow.

I just dont know what to do. I am so tired of this whole procedure and my biggest fear at this point is giving up and “living with the pain.” This molar tooth was so much complicated one and we kept that inside just to pull down these braces’ clip. Is that got infected now???  I dont know but I just need answers.

At last My cell started ringing, my dear doctor’s call, I was about to receive that but that ring only twice then I called him back, he rejected my call….. I waited waited and finally agreed to the truth, they are not gonna call me back……

I wish they would read my blog as maybe that would make them realize how much distress Im in. I think someone should call their office every day asking for an update…I figure they would probably get so frustrated they’d call me up to Kesavadasapuram the next day just to make us shut up.

My dream.

I’ve had to make an emergency doctor’s appointment with a “stranger” in my area who will do something to my tooth, not sure what. I fear anyone unknown touching my jaw. As someone put it I had “my jaw taken out of my skull, sawed, and fastened back in.”

Finally went to the “stranger” doctor yesterday and poor man, I was NOT happy to be there. I don’t like any random doctor touching my face but I was willing to give him a chance because im desperate. I’m still in pain and frankly Im mentally and physically exhausted from this whole ordeal.

So anyways, he comes into the examination room and it’s tense. You can feel it in the air, big time.  He looks at my mouth and says “I can fix the tooth, but it won’t help the pain.”

I automatically start send out comments and questions on why he wasn’t made aware that my problem was pain? Did the doctors even TELL him what was going on? I dont care about my clipped tooth at this point, Turns out, he didn’t know about the pain. He thinks its because that tooth got infection n we need to extract it but to keep braces inside anyhow we need to protect it. And I left empty handed. I had nothing done, no fixing the tooth, nothing but he suggested one antibiotics. Good part was that he didnt charge me anything. I think it’s because he was my cousin’s friend.

I never cried after my surgery but yesterday the tears came down   I was just so over tired from everything. Not hearing back from anyone, feeling completely shut out of the world by my doctors who I loved so much. but to my great comfort, the pain started winding up slowly with the antibiotics and i slowly came back to normal life, but still no response from my doctors!!!!!

No Gain, All Pain

Things aren't really looking so good for my jaws, well, on Friday morning I noticed my lower left lip and chin (still numb) areas are a bit swollen. Pain is there all over so I didn't get shocked to see that. Hmmmmmm I’m used with the swollen days and nights. It kept happening and kept happening and my jaw was starting to get the shooting, awful pains from right after last appointment so I thought I’ll ring Dr. Jeomy but later i decided No. Let that consume me as much as it can. Tomorrow I call Dr. Jeomy if the pain doesn't have any plan to get off. Had one Imole which helped to relieve a bit.

For my great comfort the pain reduces a lot by two days but my lower lip and still swollen and a kinda awkward feeling is there.I can't really open my mouth widely or laugh properly. My stammering bothers me now and then. yeah, anyway i forgot to wear those creamy dreamy elastics, but at this condition i cant even imagine of bearing that too. hmm mm i'm taking a break from those elastics till this Tuesday (30th April) because I've follow up appointment at specialists' hospital and after, i wish to spend some quality time with my best friend and his family so i wanna be free, i want freedom "Freedom to be..... azadi dil ki", lemme back from Kochi. Atleast i need this one week time before movin on to the elastics world!!!!!