not enough projection. ive been trying to train my tongue to just accept the length of space it has but it just isnt enough. not completely trapped just mostly unstable. certainly exacerbated by the lack of hard tissue support.
everything is all connected. if you experience extreme abnormal growth as i did the muscles and soft tissue, and hard tissue will have a terribly difficult time agreeing with each other.
CK, I feel for you man, it does not sound pleasant what you're going through. Thing is, surgery can't address any of it now, can it? If not it can still improve, I do believe that. If you find some other modalities like therapy and exercises etc. it may cause your soft tissue to adapt and at least the pain or unpleasant feelings you have can be solved. I'm sure you can get better through a combination of these techniques and persistent, patient work. Some of it may be psychosomatic as well, I really do believe that, I'm not saying it's in your head, just that there may be therapies that will fix the mind/body dislocation you may have. it's just hard to pinpoint what exactly will work.
Do feel optimistic though that the problems can be fixed.
