Hello there just wanted to check In on you and see how you are doing?
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| Ddmarie
August 8 |
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Hello there just wanted to check In on you and see how you are doing?
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hi, thanks for checking in on me. Well the brain fog is gone, I hope, can think a lot better. Facial sensitivity on that side comes and goes. Some ear pain, comes and goes, the head noise is odd it goes up and down in volume. Still can’t have a beer, I get a pounding headache and nausea. Oh well can’t wait to wake up one day and it’s gone.
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Forgot to mention a really odd post surgery symptom that’s gone now, it was like you had a sour ball candy in your mouth on the left side, the saliva glad(s) would pucker up and kill you for a minute! Awful. Tylenol use is way down, this whole event is depressing, I’m lucky to have a great wife kids and grandkids. And a few good life long buddies. 
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Glad to see things are going so much better. I have a similar post op symptom, I get that “sour” feeling briefly and then it quickly turns into a yawn. It seems to be decreasing the further from the surgery I go but I have never yawned so much in my life lol. Especially when it hurts so badly to do so. I sympathize with the depressing nature of this process but with time I imagine that symptom too will subside. Glad you have good support with you! Thanks for sharing your journey!
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Happy healing ,Glad to hear every thing went well.
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What you described as the sour ball feeling is First Bite Syndeomw. It’s pretty common after surgeries in the neck & area where the styloids are. It can lst for a few weeks to much longer. What happens is the parotid gland (your largest salivary gland) gets over excited when you first start to eat & it spasms causing the pain you felt in your face. The pain usually subsided w/in a few seconds. There have been many discussions about it on this forum. If you’d like to read some of them, click on the magnifying glass icon above & type in First Bite Syndrome.
Hello all, the salivary gland’s back to normal, still have some facial nerve issues that come and go. The biggest positive is the headache and brain fog I think are gone. 3 months, now I’m hoping the nerve irritation/injury starts to really fade. If I had found this site 9 month earlier maybe the recovery could have been faster. But I won’t complain too much, some people here have had it much worse.
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And thank you so much for being there.
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Hey @NH48 - How great to hear that you’ve seen some significant positive changes since surgery. Since the facial nerve issues are coming & going, that’s a good sign that the nerve is working at healing. Remember it can take up to a year for full nerve recovery but I bet it won’t take yours that long. Really appreciate your encouraging update! Thank you for sharing the good news w/ us!! 
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Good that you’re seeing improvements, will keep praying! 
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Well it’s October now, improvements are really slow, but they are happening. Facial nerve relief is improving. Vascular flow in carotid artery and jugular vein must be improving because there’s less sensation on that side. No volume control to the head noise in left jaw joint! It’s gone. When I explained that to the doctors (13)) they thought I was crazy. 
Still waiting on the minor headaches and head noise. I’d rather have knee surgery than this nightmare.
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WOW, @NH48! Even though your recovery has been on the slower side, your healing is progressing. That is so great to hear! 
With some more time, hopefully those last symptoms will continue to fade until they disappear completely.
Honestly, knee surgery takes about the same amount of time for recovery as ES surgery. Both clock in at about a year for full recovery. I do agree that ES itself is a nightmare for so many of our members. I hope your “bad dream” becomes a “good dream” as your health continues to improve.
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Well, good that you are still seeing some improvements, hang on to that! Thank you for letting us know how you’re doing, have been thinking of you! I hope that you still keep improving
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I hear you both, the difference between the two is the pain from the knee was easier to diagnose and it was at the other end of the body. I hope I can report later that it finally comes to an end.
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We hope that for you, too, @NH48.
Thanks for reporting your continued progress, @NH48. It helps to read about what recovery can look like.
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