A month later ... but I'm finally getting around to posting a couple of photos from my endoscopy. In the first photo, you can see several of the ulcers basically in a ring around my esophagus ...
In this photo, you can see another large ulcer in another area of the esophagus.
In this photo, you can see another large ulcer in another area of the esophagus.In all, they took about 8 days to heal up. Lesson learned ... take doxy in middle of day, with LOTS and LOTS of water, and make sure I'm upright. I was off the doxy for a couple weeks but I am back on now, so far so good. If I forget to take it during the day I will just skip it from now on, I don't ever want to go through the esophageal again!
On another note, a week from Thursday I go in to get my SureSmile wire on. Although I can't visualize what changes the wire will bring about, I can only imagine I will get some major torquing and twisting of my teeth, getting them in line for surgery. I am wondering how bad my bite will be as I get close to surgery ... only time will tell.
I am looking forward to my SureSmile date because this is supposedly when my OD will tell me I can schedule my surgery! I can't believe I am getting close enough to schedule ... YIKES! But I am prepared for what lies ahead, and just looking forward to getting on with the process to be able to put this chapter of my life behind me, although I know it is a long haul uphill before I get there.
3 comments:
Your esophegeal ulcers looked painful! Glad to hear you're feeling and doing better. Happy to hear you're getting a surgery date too. Things are moving right along for you now. Good luck with everything.
Hi there! I stumbled upon your blog through someone else's ortho surgery blog.
Ouch! Hope you're feeling better.
Good luck with getting a surgery date! I remember how excited I was to finally have a surgery date.
yuck...Hi Stephani. I'm "Gina" from the Yahoo Orthognatic Surgery Support message boards.
I started blogging 2 weeks into post-op recovery, and so glad you have one too!
One question, how did you get your x-rays posted? I have print-outs and tried photocopying/scanning it into my computer then converting it to a JPEG and it looks bad. I posted them anyways. But yeah, did you just ask your doctor for his electronic files? Same w/ the great before/after teeth pictures.
Once I figure out how to add links to other ppl's Orthoblogs on my blog, I'll add you. You've been such a great resource for me. Esp. w/ the info on Doxy. I now deal w/ it better and I have half a week left of my Doxy run. :)
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