if you don't have a stuffy nose, that is great. your body must not be under that much stress. like i said before, i just took care of someone who had surgery with gunson and the first four to six days were rough (he is kind of delicate but still it would have been rough for anyone. 21-22mm advancement). gunson suggested acupuncture for the swelling so he did that day 2, 3 and 4 before he felt good enough to start skipping out on the appts. there was blood in the nose that caused some stuffiness but the acupuncturist told me the congestion comes from the body sending every soldier it has to help heal, these little healers are in mucous. maybe this is common knowledge but anyway my point is that you probably just aren't under that much of a state of emergency if you aren't stuffed up to the point of causing panic sometimes. again, you know your body better than anyone obviously and you should be able to tell what is safe and what isn't. im just saying dont bear down and blow your nose like a train whistle for a while.
ask dr sinn or the nurses questions if you are unsure. for example, my friend was just cleared to brush his teeth in a very particular way. he has a clarsonic he has used forever which is small enough to reach behind his central incisors which apparently feel really gunky. i heard him using it in the bathroom and when he came out i asked him if he was cleared to use it and told him to call the office and ask. he did. they said absolutely not. again, maybe gunson is too overbearing but he is only 2.5 weeks out of surgery and it would be a really big shame to do something that could cause harm at this point in the game when you are through the hardest part.
my friend is healing great by the way. swelling was CRAZY at first but going down quite quickly all of the sudden. he looks great.
oh that's cool, wow you're such a sweet friend! Wish your friend the best from me.
Meep you have already had jaw surgery? Sorry, Ive been so self-obsessed leading up to this I seem to have dumped all my short term memory about this from everyone else.
God now I feel freaked out about whether I indeed had jaw surgery or not!!!!! lOLLOLOL
I honestly have not had a single moment of excessive pain or panic. Okay there's something near the left part of my lower chin which if I move a particular way or press on sends shooting pangs of nerve pain that are like a 10 on a scale of 1-10, but I've almost gotten used to them and they don't bother me THAT much even though they're so painful if that makes sense. I wonder if part of this is just that I'm so happy i've finally done this and it's over my mind is not registering as much pain. i mean I would think that just the very breaking of your upper and lower jaws and chin and resetting (whatever the movements) would cause essentially the same "trauma" in everyone. And I guarantee that I'm on mental health drugs I think has made me MUCH MUCH more positive about this experience. I can imagine it being HELL if I were at all depressed or suffering from anxiety.
So your friend's lower jaw was extended in the horizontal direction 21mm? (does that include genioplasty?). Wow I would like DIE to see a before and after pic of that. Would your friend be willing to share? Again, totally understand as I won't lol
so I can't be a hypocrite. But some people actually want opinions on their before and afters.
