When I said day 3 was the worst...I was definitely wrong. Days 4 and 5 were worse because I was nauseous and there's nothing worse than trying to take all these medicines and being nauseous. I ended up throwing up about 2 pounds of liquid because I drank milk of magnesia and a bunch of water afterward. Very unpleasant but I can open my mouth 1/2 inch so there was a space for it to go through (sorry for the gross details but a lot of people worry about throwing up). Other than that I pretty much stayed in bed for those days. This is a picture from day from day 5. Overall, the swelling is slowly going down but my top lip is getting bigger (just went to the surgeon today and found out it was because I sliced the inside of my lip on my surgical hook and I was numb so I didn't know). The numbness is in my cheeks and one side of my nose, which doesn't really bother me.
Days 6 & 7 I began to get some of my energy back and I felt like eating. Also I barely felt any pain in my jaw but there were a few short periods where my ear was in excruciating pain. If you have this get ice the side of your neck and sit up straight. so I wasn't taking the Motrin so often. Eating is beginning to be a struggle. Nothing like a smoothie or soup or pudding sounds good anymore. I'm craving meat and real, solid food. I got really desperate so I blended up some pizza with marinara sauce. I had to block it out of my mind that I just put pizza in the blender and was about to shoot it into my mouth with a syringe. It was actually pretty satisfying! Chicken broth is still my favorite because it goes down smoothly, there's no need for getting food out of my teeth and I crave salt. I started out at 116 pounds and i'm down to 111. My surgeon said it's fine to lose weight but he doesn't want me to lose anymore than I have. This is a picture from day 7. One week post op!
Days 8 and 9 were pretty much the same thing as the days before. Energy levels are starting to come back! Today I went to an appointment at my surgeons office. He took my stitches out on the sides of my cheek and said the ones in my mouth will dissolve within a few more weeks. He looked at my bite and decided I needed to be put into elastics. There's a splint that covers my top row of teeth and a space for my bottom teeth to bite into. I'm not quite biting right so he says the elastics will fix this. It's kind of disappointing because I was able to talk and slide small pieces of food through my teeth but now i'm completely rubber banded shut. On the bright side I go back for another appointment in 2 days and if i'm improving I can take 1 of the 3 rubber bands off. Below here i'll put some random tips and tricks i've come across so far to make everything a little easier/cleaner.
- If you can open your mouth a little bit buy a tongue scraper/cleaner (not sure what it's called) to clean your tongue. It will get very coated since you can't brush it.
- If your mouth tastes really nasty and brushing the outside of your teeth doesn't help, dilute some mouthwash and rinse with that. If it's not diluted it will burn your stitches.
- Don't eat any smoothies with raspberries! The seeds are ridiculously annoying...it took forever to get them out of my teeth.
- If you're craving breakfast food try blending grits, an egg, tiny pieces of crispy bacon, and milk. Some of the bacon bits don't suck up well in the syringe but some will.
- If you're not making your smoothie, ask the person making it to blend it twice. This thins it down and gets rid of any missed chunks.
- Buy big smoothie straws! I was able to drink out of these way better than regular straws.
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| First time in 9 days that I did my hair! But still no makeup. Botox upper lip! |
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| Profile view right (before) left (after) Still swollen but you can see the slight difference |
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