Hi @Cody. I sent a couple of links for facial exercises & massage to SSR that may help stimulate your facial nerve & help your lip get back to functioning better. The links are below.
Since you had your surgeries pretty close together, your body is now working at healing both sides so it may be a slower recovery this time around because of that. Don’t be discouraged about your scar area as you’re really in early recovery still. It will take several months for the incision to recover & start disappearing. I’ve joked that my incision looked like a caterpillar on my neck around 21 days post op. It was really swollen, & the suture lines divided it into segments like a caterpillar has. It’s basically invisible now & was at about 4-5 months post op.
The good news is that you’ve noticed reduction in ES symptoms over all & over the course of the next year, you’ll notice more & more improvement in how you feel. It’s so worth the wait!
