Well, it's been a while, which is a good sign.
My tongue pretty much stayed as it was while I was pregnant. After the birth, my tongue returned almost to normal. Since then I've had a few minor relapses, but nothing major and it's almost always close to normal now. It doesn't feel the way it did before the injury - there's a slightly greasy feel sometimes - but I rarely think about it at all. I figure it's like having a scar - never going to be the same, but the wound that was once there has healed. It's worse when I'm tired (which with a baby in the house, is most of the time).
If you're reading this blog and haven't healed early on, take heart. My injury still changes even now, more than a year later. I know the research says these things heal early or not at all, but that's not my experience. It's grown gradually better and better over a long period of time. Maybe I just don't notice it, maybe my brain has compensated, but whatever the reason it's absolutely tolerable now.
Good luck. Stay well.
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Imogina, I loved this blog. Even you went through such a "horrible" experience, It helped me a lot on having faith that my injury will recover. I felt identified with almost all the experiences, even those related to doctor/dentist/endo ignoring you and almost insinuating it was your fault as per you are too aprhensive...imagine how scared I am now. And still more work done, and I don't know what to do. I am in 4th week and fortunately I have not had pain,just the burning and tingling, numbness (drives me crazy) plus all the other sentations, so upsetting and disturbing, I have been so depressed that I have had anxiate attacks, and I haven't been able to focus on my work, which is vital to me as I don't have any other financial support, nor even any emotional support. Well, sorry, it seems I came here to cry out loud my misery, but who else can understand. How did you manage to have more work done on your teeth?...Just the thinking of it terrifies me. I can;t handle more stress...emotional pain. Thanks for this blog, really, really thanks, somehow it is inspiring to me. I have read so many horrible, weird stories in internet, than I don't know how to be positive anymore...hope you reply anyday...and hope you are completely well.
ReplyDeleteHi, thank you and I'm glad it's helped you a bit.
ReplyDeleteI'm now nearly 2 years out from the injury and my tongue isn't normal, but it's not bad. Sometimes it tingles, mostly when I'm tired but I barely notice it and even when I do notice, I tell myself 'oh well, it's a bit weird but it could be worse'. I honestly think that having a good attitude will help not because it will make you heal but because you'll avoid hypersensitising yourself - or at least a bit. From what I've learned/read/heard pain is worse when you obsess about it. I certainly found this to be true in my case. So I'd recommend just getting on with life, distract yourself, eat well, rest lots and don't obsessively read things on the internet. There really isn't much you can to help this (believe me, I've researched it and anything I know is on here). But you can help yourself by having a positive attitude.
I highly recommend you check out Kev's blog too if you haven't already. It's great. He's great.
I coped with having more work done (two sessions) by having my husband come with me and sit through the whole thing. I also made it very very clear I didn't want any more articaine and told her to be very careful where she injected me. Because most of the nerves were already gone I barely needed any numbing, but kept what I did have to a minimum.
ReplyDeletei think if you're anxious, take someone with you. it helped to have someone who believed me so that i had support when dealing with the very unsympathetic endo.
you might find hypnotherapy helpful too - even just get some cheap CDs off eBay. I only discovered this when I was pregnant, but I used them during labour and they worked really well with calming my anxiety. I'd also recommend yoga to help you become more calm. I really believe being calm and relaxed helps enormously with this injury.
Feel free to comment again - i'm happy to chat more but I might take a while to reply