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adjl posted...

I can't tell if that's bad timing or good timing. It'd at least mean she was only recovering from jaw surgery once, e

oh, i misspoke. I meant that she got jaw correction surgery a few days after I got FFS, so our recovery overlapped. I don't think it'd be safe to get one shortly after the other

adjl posted...

t ended up causing some permanent nerve damage, actually, so the bottom left quarter of my lips doesn't have quite as much sensation in it as the rest do, but I only ever really notice that when I pay attention.

It's possible I'll have permanent nerve damage too - they pull a bunch of nerves out of the way to get at the jaw, and the numbness usually goes away after a while (several months to a year). Right now I have very little sensation besides pressure from the center of my lower lip down to my chin.

adjl posted...

And then with the way the blood drained, I ended up with a giant triangular bruise down into my chest, which would have been alarming if they hadn't specifically warned me about it.

Oh wow. I didn't have anything like that. I did have a lot of unrelated bruises that took forever to heal -- I got a medium-sized bruise on my arm a few days before my procedure and the bruise is still pretty visible now like 3 weeks later, lol

Jen0125 posted...

ma'am all i can say is whenever you think all your swelling should be gone to think again because it really does take months for that lingering swelling

yep! From chatting with other people with the same surgeon it's basically like: half of it goes away in the first 2 weeks, half of the rest in the first 3 months, and then the last 1/4 takes a year after that.

did you get like a jade stone roller or anything to massage any scar tissue on your face? my plastic surgeon recommended that to me and it felt nice against the swelling too.

No, that sounds like it might feel nice though. There's a couple spots on my jaw line that are pretty sore