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Yokel |
Prayers sent Beware the man who only has one gun. He probably knows how to use it! - John Steinbeck | |||
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| We gonna get some oojima in this house!  |
Another update Jaw still locked. Not completely, I can get one finger in there. It has however become quite painful. I have my MRI results back, and scheduled to see the surgeon this Monday in Birmingham. The new Prior auth requirements are a pain with anything out of network. Any oral surgeons on here? Wanna give me an unofficial opinion of my MRI impressions? ----------------------------------------------------------- TCB all the time... | |||
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| Mired in the Fog of Lucidity |
Good God man, have you been losing weight? | |||
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I'm an orthodontist, not an OMS, but I'd be surprised if it's not an anterior disc displacement. | |||
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| We gonna get some oojima in this house! |
“Little motion at the tm joint. In both the open and closed posits the condyles overrides the eminence. There is soft tissue within the glenoid fossa, but no discreet disc material is identified. No marrow edema. No significant motion at the tm joint bilaterally. In both the open and closed mouth positions, the condyles override the eminence-partially open mouth posit. The discs are never identified. There is no effusion. Soft tissue filling the glenoid fossa may represent fibrosis.” Care to translate? I know a little knee and spinal anatomy and terms, but this is a little much for me to understand. ----------------------------------------------------------- TCB all the time... | |||
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Tinker Sailor Soldier Pie |
No kidding. Yowser. Man, you are in my thoughts. ~Alan Acta Non Verba NRA Life Member (Patron) God, Family, Guns, Country Men will fight and die to protect women... because women protect everything else. ~Andrew Klavan | |||
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| We gonna get some oojima in this house! |
Hah, a little. I can actually eat and chew a little if I can get it in to my mouth. Eating mushy food is not the best food either. ----------------------------------------------------------- TCB all the time... | |||
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Not quite the same type of joint, but in knee terminology, your meniscus is destroyed and has been replaced by fibrous scar tissue. | |||
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| We gonna get some oojima in this house! |
 fantastic....----------------------------------------------------------- TCB all the time... | |||
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| 10mm is The Boom of Doom  |
Wasn't there a Twilight Zone episode about this? God Bless and Protect the Once and Future President, Donald John Trump. | |||
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Maybe you are thinking of the episode where the millionaire offers to pay a guy a million bucks if he does not speak for a year. The guy makes it a whole year, the millionaire is bankrupt and the guy had cut out his tongue to win the bet. Typical gallows humor. | |||
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| We gonna get some oojima in this house! |
Saw the surgeon in Birmingham. Wants me to come back feb 13 to do an injection and or some other stuff under sedation. Says it has a 60% chance of unlocking my jaw without surgery. I think I would go ahead and have the surgery if it was my choice. So another week with a locked jaw. ----------------------------------------------------------- TCB all the time... | |||
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| Ammoholic |
From experience with some really good surgeons, when they recommend against cutting, one is very wise to listen. The surgeon’s mantra is, “A chance to cut is a chance to cure.” However, the experienced guys know that surgery is not consequence free and if the body can be coaxed to heal itself or healed with less invasive intervention the result can often be better and the recover quicker. This doesn’t mean that there aren’t times when surgery isn’t the best approach, it just mean that if the guy whose new swimming your prospective surgery might help pay for thinks surgery isn’t the first best approach, he might be on to something... | |||
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Hoping the best for you. Stock up on easy to eat stuff in the mean time! I basically lived for a year on Yogurt, Applesauce, Mixed fruit cups and Ensure drinks for protein until they operated on me for my Achalasia in 2013. I did lose from ~230 down to 160 though. Collecting dust. | |||
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His Royal Hiney |
You would think someone would be concerned enough about your condition to want to do something about it now. I just hope it unlocks on its own way before your next appointment. You're a whole lot more patient than me. "It did not really matter what we expected from life, but rather what life expected from us. We needed to stop asking about the meaning of life, and instead to think of ourselves as those who were being questioned by life – daily and hourly. Our answer must consist not in talk and meditation, but in right action and in right conduct. Life ultimately means taking the responsibility to find the right answer to its problems and to fulfill the tasks which it constantly sets for each individual." Viktor Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning, 1946. | |||
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Legalize the Constitution |
Man, a long time to suffer from this! Hard for me to understand why you don’t have a definitive diagnosis by now. All the best in a cure...and soon _______________________________________________________ despite them | |||
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| I have not yet begun to procrastinate |
That's really good news. I hope it works!
It's only been a month and a half! What's the rush?  Fingers crossed for you smithnsig. -------- After the game, the King and the pawn go into the same box. | |||
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| 10mm is The Boom of Doom |
No this was some wealthy guy in a castle. An expert doctor comes from far away. The doctor temporarily cures with an injection then leaves. But the lock returns and he is going to starve to death. But the cure was just plain water. The doctor tells the servant but the servant but the servant does not tell his master because the master is cruel. He starves. It may not have been twilight Zone. Maybe a late night movie. God Bless and Protect the Once and Future President, Donald John Trump. | |||
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| Man Once Child Twice |
Good Luck to you! | |||
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| We gonna get some oojima in this house! |
I hear what you are saying but This is one of those things about your body that you know. A big run of prednisone I have already taken completely took away the swelling and pain. My jaw was still physically blocked from opening. He does the injection and the surgery so he will get me coming and going. Besides, I think it’s an insurance thing with trying this first. ----------------------------------------------------------- TCB all the time... | |||
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