The MSE is in! The whole process was actually no big deal! If I can do it, anyone can.
However once the numbing shots wore off, the day got a whole lot rougher...
9:30 am I started at the Orthodontist. They placed the MSE and cemented it in. This took about an hour, just to make sure everything was clean, dry, and I understood how to use the key to crank it open. My direction was 1 crank in the morning and 1 crank at bedtime.
11:00 am I was at the Periodontist. They were so wonderful, gave me play by play updates as they did every turn and poke. 2 big fat shots came first- these were not pleasant but over quickly and were ok enough to handle. Felt like a chopstick going up through my palet, and through bone that's for sure. A few more smaller (4? 6? couldn't tell) shots were next and I really didn't feel much at all when the screws were going in. The ones on the left felt a bit twingey (like a nerve pain?) and the back right one was so squeaky (my bone was the squeaky part she said). And although I didn't feel it then, I do feel something it in my sinuses. Like when you go outside in the dead of winter and breathe cold air in real hard/a brain freeze, but in your nose. A cold metal feeling. Not painful, but a little weird. This all took another hour, but that included me paying and getting another CBCT scan. I didn't feel rushed at all though. They were so calm and casual my anxiety was eased. I totally squeezed a little pillow the whole time though, just in case.
For me though, the worse part was having my mouth open for 2 hours. I've had wretched TMJD for 20 years so it's so fatigued it feels about to fall off. Couple that with no place for my tongue, which is now exhausted, and the obvious now my bites off feeling = ANTICIPATED HEADACHES FOR DAYS at the least. I've been on ice packs since I got home. Bonus, The perio did call in some Ibuprofen 800 and some Tylenol 3 for me. BLESS HER. But now I can't wear my bite splint. I've been dependent on it for-ev-ver so I'm just going to be a mess until I get stable again. Hopefully today was the worst, but, I know my past and why I am here.
I ''worked from home'' most of the day and answered emails etc etc, but tomorrow I have to go sit though a class 6 am-2:30 pm. I'll take it because I won't have to talk much, but I have to figure out how to crank this and be presentable by 5:30 am -_- Booo.
Also, dinner was rough. Food gets ALL up in this thing. The legs of it are pretty far off my mouth so entire peas and bites of chicken got all stuck. It was pretty gross but I invested in a water pick and power washed it all out. Tomorrow for work, I'm just packing like 4 shakes and will call it good. Perhaps I will lose this extra 20 lbs finally.
Anyways, more updates soon.
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