I am very happy that my bite seems totally stable. Hopefully this means that I will be able to stop wearing the bands at night and then get my arch bars removed soon. The past few night I've been waking up a couple of hours early 'cause my teeth hurt from the pressure of the bands, taking them off and then going back to sleep. Last night I woke up at 3:00, decided that I couldn't really take them off yet, slept until 6:00, woke up again and took them off and slept another couple of hours. I am really tempted to leave them off at night, but I'll be a good patient. Maybe if I take some aleve before I go to bed tonight I'll be able to sleep without annoyance. Despite this, I am so totally psyched to have freedom from the bands during the day and not have to worry about my jaw going where it shouldn't. I still can't open my mouth very far at all, but hopefully soon I will see some improvement. At least I should be able to start doing mouth opening exercises after my next appointment since everything seems to be going well.
Tomorrow I have to see my primary care doctor as I've been feeling lightheaded when I go from sitting/laying down to standing. This happens occasionally to everyone, but I've been having it a lot the past week or so, probably about half the time. The medical term is orthostatic hypotension. It hasn't been a big deal, I feel fine after a few seconds, but is a bit worrisome since my jaw fractures happened from fainting. I certainly don't want a repeat of that. I know from my last visit that all of my blood work is normal. The doctor said at that time that I would need to get an EKG if I started feeling faint again, so I guess that is in my future. Hopefully nothing is wrong and I'm just reacting to my weight loss or something. Really tired of going to see doctors at this point.
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