Hi
I still get comments coming to this blog, and I'm glad to see that it's helping people.
People often ask how I'm doing now. I would say I'm still 99% recovered. No pain, no numbness, but some furry feeling on the side of my tongue and sometimes a nasty taste in my mouth, but otherwise fine. Mostly I don't notice, in fact the main time I notice is when someone comments and it reminds me! Right now, I was totally fine, but then read a comment someone had sent, and now I'm feeling weird sensations grow on my tongue. This, I think, supports my view that the more you think about it, the worse it is. You hyper-focus and it feels worse. The best thing I ever did (and still do), is refuse to let it get to me, and and just stay busy and ignore it. Then it became like white noise until either it healed or I stopped noticing it. I know that seems impossible early on, but honestly to anyone visitng this site, do try not to obsess. Try not to spend all your time looking for a cure (we've all tried, there's really nothing to be done), and just try to distract yourself if you can. It's the only thing that helped me.
good luck!
I still get comments coming to this blog, and I'm glad to see that it's helping people.
People often ask how I'm doing now. I would say I'm still 99% recovered. No pain, no numbness, but some furry feeling on the side of my tongue and sometimes a nasty taste in my mouth, but otherwise fine. Mostly I don't notice, in fact the main time I notice is when someone comments and it reminds me! Right now, I was totally fine, but then read a comment someone had sent, and now I'm feeling weird sensations grow on my tongue. This, I think, supports my view that the more you think about it, the worse it is. You hyper-focus and it feels worse. The best thing I ever did (and still do), is refuse to let it get to me, and and just stay busy and ignore it. Then it became like white noise until either it healed or I stopped noticing it. I know that seems impossible early on, but honestly to anyone visitng this site, do try not to obsess. Try not to spend all your time looking for a cure (we've all tried, there's really nothing to be done), and just try to distract yourself if you can. It's the only thing that helped me.
good luck!
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