Never Lose Hope

Hey guys

I hope you are all having an awesome year so far and keeping warm because it seems like Winter is heading our way very quickly. It seems like it has been forever since I last posted, mainly because I have been so busy and slightly lazy, but I am now back to my every week posts.

The last couple of months have been crazy to say the least, it will take a few posts for me to keep you up to speed, I am going to write this one about the biggest change in my life.

For most of my life I have a lot of issues with my jaw and that stems from me having an under bite when I was younger. Generally you get a surgery to get rid of an underbite where they break your jaw and put it back into place…. I did not do that. Instead we went the safe route and got braces (I was going to get braces anyways because I had the most awful teeth ever, so we decided to kill two birds with one stone). The braces very quickly took away my underbite and so we thought all was good, no need for surgery because my problems were solved. Little did we know, that was the beginning of all the issues.

My jaw started to really get sore for a long time so my parents took me to a dentist, he told me I had TMJ. For years we went on thinking that, that was the issue, after countless doctors visits with lots of different types of doctors we came up with a temporary game plan, I did sessions with the Chiropractor, had Botox and even went to a physio who specialises in TMJ. Even though we did all of that and jumped through so many hoops…. IT WAS STILL SORE.

My parents recently decided to take me to their dentist, he is the best in the business, he is also a lecturer and trains a lot of dentists. He managed to do the impossible, he gave me a proper diagnosis and we got a game plan. He could immediately see that I did not have TMJ, but something much worse…. I have Mio Facial Pain Disfunction Syndrome (M.P.D.S for short). He told me to go to an Orthodontist who specialises in this king of stuff and so straight after my appointment with him, my parents and i went to Pretoria to see the Orthodontist. She had a look and took some X-rays and told us that all of the angles in my mouth are wrong basically, more at the bottom jaw. The fix for all of this is braces for 4-6 months and then I get surgery.

I currently have my braces on now, even though they are not comfortable… especially when I get them tightened. I can say without a doubt that there has been a significant change in my jaw, I have had them for over a month now and my pain is gone.

I cannot express how grateful I am to my parents and to the Dentist and Orthodontist who could finally help me. This just shows that even when things look like they not going to get better and you start to lose hope, it can all change in a moments notice when you see the right people.

I hope you all enjoyed my post and I will keep you updated on all the other things that are happening in my life, because there is a lot.

Bye xx