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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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Imoginam, it's really good to know your doing well. I'm also around 99% better but I still get that Nasty Metallic sometimes sour taste on the left side of my tongue. And my mouth gets really dry if I talk too much. Have you found that any vitamins really worked for you over these past years?
ReplyDeleteHi yes I still get that metallic taste and nothing has made it go away. I now just ignore it and mostly don't notice it. I find the less I think about it, the less I care. it's just become part of who I am and I don't really remember what it was like without it. then every now and again I realise I haven't thought about it in weeks or months and realise either it wasn't there or I didn't notice - both of which are great outcomes!
ReplyDeleteI do get the dry mouth too, but nothing resolves that for me either, but same ignoring it approach works.
thanks for reading and I'm glad this helped
Thanks for the quick reply Imogina, I try to do the same as you by ignoring it. Just have to adapt to our situation...Some things could be worst...
ReplyDeleteThank you so much for this blog, I've been constantly researching for my girlfriend who's about 6 months in after a very rough dentist extracted her 3 wisdom teeth.
ReplyDeleteIt's been life altering to say the least. I'm trying all that I can to support and encourage her, and stay positive. That it's not hopeless... I cannot help this for her and it drives me insane seeing her suffer so much. I can hold out and stay the course as long as needed, but I'm not the one suffering. She's has thoughts of leaving because I need to find someone not messed up and thinks I deserve better, I love that she in her own way is trying to protect me. I can't stand the thought of losing her and this is swallowing her life.
I hate to do this and bring it up for you, but are the occasional feelings still lingering has it gotten better even since the last update?
No problem at all - I love that my blog helps people and I don't mind you getting in touch.
DeleteYes, it's life altering and she sounds incredibly lucky to have you. One of the things I have found really hard is that people don't really believe there's anything wrong, even (sometimes especially) dentists.
As I understand it, some people don't get better, but for me, definitely over the years it got better and better. I still have funny taste in my mouth every now and again, but never any pain. A little bit of furry feeling (like after a hangover :) ) but that's it. I would say I made a 99% recovery. the main down side still is that I'm terrified of having any more injections at the dentist, which causes me problems.
The best things she can do I think are just exercise, get out and about, try not to google it or sit on forums, but instead do everything she can to put the feelings in the background because that (I think) gives her more chance of letting her body recalibrate and stop noticing so much. That's what my doctor said and he was right. That said, it isn't all mind over matter, it's very real and for some people, it stays bad. All I can tell you is that for me, very very slowly, it did get better and I hope she does too. Hang in there.