Documenting my TJR surgery and “jaw journey”.
For Idiopathic Condylar Resorption (ICR)
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15 | 7 months post op
Been a minute since I’ve given an update! A lot has happened in life since the last time I posted. We moved to the PNW and had to do sooo much to make this happen. Had to fix up the house, fix up and sell the RV, find a place and then move all our
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14 | 6-11 weeks post op
Healing is not linear (thanks to Lindsey T. for sending me this photo during recovery, it has been my phone background to keep me thinking realistically!). I always think I can make these posts shorter when I first set out writing, but that doesn’t always work out for me. The reader’s digest version of this
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13 | 4-5 weeks post-op
In a nutshell – these last 2 weeks I have spent my time on increasing my mouth opening, enjoying my new soft chew diet 😄, working on proper swallowing and tongue placement with a orofacial myologist, getting better at speaking (starting to sound like my old self), lymphatic drainage massages from my craniofacial PT, considering
The Author
In 20+ years – I’ve had ICR, 8+ years of braces, bilateral fat graft diskectomies, TMJ TJR and 21 doctors who have directly treated (and often misdiagnosed) my condition
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Lindsey's jaw journey 