Week 9

Wednesday 18/11/09

Yesterday was a good day - some moments of almost complete normality again. Now back to some tingling, but it's less bad - more like the last part of a leg that's fallen asleep waking up.

Also - it now feels very dry, a bit like when you wake up with a hangover. it's not an unpleasant sensation and pretty easy to ignore. However, it's spread over more of my tongue... who knows what that means. Not me, but I can cope with this so that's something to be happy about. I'm choosing to see this as an other healing cycle, where this time the flare up is hugely less bad and hopefully there won't be many more of these.

Monday 23/11/09
After having a day of almost complete normality on Thursday, I've had another set back. My lip is now slightly sore and the tingle/burn is back - but now it's on the underside of my tongue.

Spoke to an oral surgeon who works with people with this injury - he said from his observations I'm in the group of people who are healing and that 12-14 weeks is the normal healing time. I'm at 9 weeks and substantially better than before, so I hope he's right. He also said it does go in cycles, flaring up, the settling and repeating this cycle.

Fingers still crossed.