justjenn

That's what I felt around 2:30AM this morning. I woke up again at 5:30 still hurting. My jaw has been hurting at the "break site" and I thought maybe my jaw was messed up. I also thought maybe it was latest rubber band configuration. I called the surgeon since their office opened first, and they thought it was my braces. So I called the ortho. He told me to take out my rubber bands for 2-3 days and see if that helps. (I had 4 of them.) He also said to limit my talking and jaw movement and let my mouth relax. If my pain hasn't subsided by Mon., I'm heading down to the ortho (about an hour drive) to get my braces off a week early. This also means rescheduling my cleaning and my surgeon follow up.

I'm so ready to get these things off that I can't stand it.


P.S. For those of you wanting to see the configuration I was on, I don't have pictures, but imagine single power chain on top and bottom. With the rubber bands, I had 4 triangles. (first top brace down to #1 & #2 on bottom, and 2nd top brace down to #2 & #3 on bottom [triangles]) This was done on both sides.