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Topic	Does anyone else here really like being put under anesthesia?
adjl 08/28/21 11:53:19 PM #22:	hockey7318 posted... Yeah mine was my upper jaw that the way broke into three pieces and moved forward. Crazy part was that when they made the cuts, they moved my nerves up and out of the way so there was minimal pain. They gave me child strength ibuprofen afterwards. Unfortunately Im part of the less than 10% who dont fully regain feeling but that only affects my gums on mg upper jaw. On the plus side I didnt have to get my jaw wired shut. Just a liquid diet for 6 weeks. I got both jaws done. Top came forward 6 mm, bottom went back 4 mm. I had three cuts on top and two on the bottom. Wired shut for 3 weeks on a full liquid diet (discovery: Everything blends if you add enough broth; I only lost 5 pounds), limited to soft foods for 6 weeks after that. I also didn't have too much pain because the corresponding nerves were severed. When I was getting settled into my hospital room, the nurse asked me to rate my pain, then did a massive double-take when I said "I dunno, 1, maybe 2?", which was more hilarious than I was able to appreciate in my anaesthesia-addled state. I still went through a ton of children's tylenol (because no solids) over the next couple weeks to keep it that way, but it honestly wasn't as bad as "my face was in 7 pieces" makes it sound. I had a prescription for Dilaudid that I never actually filled. I also ended up with some nerve damage. They struggled with the nerve on the bottom left, so that part of my lip was totally numb afterwards. It was really weird having it grow back, since there was a point where holding water in my left cheek made me feel like I was drooling (since the nerve ending was in the wrong spot). I never did fully regain sensation in that part of my lip, though. It's mild, but kind of unfortunate. Something about how the nerves got moved around in my upper jaw has also meant that I can now force myself to sneeze by rubbing my tongue on the roof of my mouth the right way, which is weird, but harmless. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. <cite>adjl posted [p:957536960] in Does anyon... [t:79634565]...</cite> <quote>hockey7318 posted... </cite> <quote>Yeah mine was my upper jaw that the way broke into three pieces and moved forward. Crazy part was that when they made the cuts, they moved my nerves up and out of the way so there was minimal pain. They gave me child strength ibuprofen afterwards. Unfortunately Im part of the less than 10% who dont fully regain feeling but that only affects my gums on mg upper jaw. On the plus side I didnt have to get my jaw wired shut. Just a liquid diet for 6 weeks.</quote> I got both jaws done. Top came forward 6 mm, bottom went back 4 mm. I had three cuts on top and two on the bottom. Wired shut for 3 weeks on a full liquid diet (discovery: Everything blends if you add enough broth; I only lost 5 pounds), limited to soft foods for 6 weeks after that. I also didn't have too much pain because the corresponding nerves were severed. When I was getting settled into my hospital room, the nurse asked me to rate my pain, then did a massive double-take when I said "I dunno, 1, maybe 2?", which was more hilarious than I was able to appreciate in my anaesthesia-addled state. I still went through a ton of children's tylenol (because no solids) over the next couple weeks to keep it that way, but it honestly wasn't as bad as "my face was in 7 pieces" makes it sound. I had a prescription for Dilaudid that I never actually filled. I also ended up with some nerve damage. They struggled with the nerve on the bottom left, so that part of my lip was totally numb afterwards. It was really weird having it grow back, since there was a point where holding water in my left cheek made me feel like I was drooling (since the nerve ending was in the wrong spot). I never did fully regain sensation in that part of my lip, though. It's mild, but kind of unfortunate. Something about how the nerves got moved around in my upper jaw has also meant that I can now force myself to sneeze by rubbing my tongue on the roof of my mouth the right way, which is weird, but harmless. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts.</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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