Well im now 10 days poast upper and lower jaw surgery and thankfully my chin didnt need doing, the past 2 weeks pre- and post -op have been the hardest i have ever faced and a very emotional ride. I can now say i am glad i have had this done but at first i thought what have i done. i have been taken photo's every few days and so ill post them as they keep coming.
As i have not updated for a while i'll have to go back to before the op so here goes.
The week before my op i had a wafer fitting which was nothing to worry about evidently just a bit of plastic lol so that was the easy bit .
The night before my op i have never been as scared in my whole life and was very tempted to run and cope with my teeth the way they are but i didn't which im am glad about now.
Going down to theatre was awful, i have seen this operation done in theatre and so i knew exactly what they were going to do but luckily they knocked me out good and proper and quick which was even better lol.
The next thing i remember was waking in POCU post operative care unit similar to High dependancy, i was quite sick and stuff but the drugs help and now it feels like a long time ago, the swelling was bad my face and neck was huge. My brother didn't like it in there with the machines and stuff. I saw my surgeon and he said my bite is perfect and that i didn't need banding shut yey!
Then i got transfered to a normal ward for a day and then went home the day after it was too soon i think i was pretty rough at home but luckily i have the best parents in the world who really looked after me.
the third day was the worst as couldn't stop drooling, being sick and having nose bleeds but after that things started to get better i could then eat or rather shove and swallow pasta and soup so not a liguid diet and drugs lol, which is good
after one week the docs put two bands on the left side of my mouth to try and improve my bite very slightly but the muscles in my face went into spasm and so i cut the bands off he he the doc said it was ok though.
One of the hardest things i find now is that i get very tired i do improve daily but still tired.
now it is day 10 and i can now sort of smile i haven't drooled in about a week or had a nose bleed touch wood, im still not chewing food until the docs say i can but at least i like pasta and soup.
I have lost over half a stone so far yey and i hope more to come off lol. Ill keep posting and i know i have condenced about 2 weeks here so if there is anything you want to know ask ill get back to you
ill add some pics now to show the swelling from the start to now as it has reduced loads
