My Story

FunGuy said:

Friday is Implant Day
Well, the time has come and Friday @ 8:00 I'm going to have five implants drilled into my lower jaw. I'm not looking forward to it. I will not be "under" for this procedure but will take an Ativan pill 45 minutes before. I'm really hoping I'm extremely loopy and won't remember much.

The Dr. has promised that this will be much less painful than all the teeth extractions I've gone through the past 12 months -- 13 teeth in all. Those were pretty painful afterward. Anyway, if you guys could send a few prayers my way that morning that would be great.

-Paul

You will be in my thoughts
You will be in my thoughts on Friday.

Please let us know how it goes. I am supposed to have implants done also but it has been delayed because of how long it is taking the new normal gum tissue to completely form after the procedures I had done last August (!!!). Given the continuous discomfort I have had the last many months and the expenses we have had this year between cancer and a wedding, I am beginning to think I might stick with dentures and forgo the implants. I will be very interested to hear how it goes. Hoping it goes very well.

Freida

Young also
You are not alone. I am 37 yrs. old and was diagnosed when I was 32. I have had a long journey, as well. Weight has been a terrible issue for me due to nausea. I am finally stable and have learned to stagger my eating.

I keep a j-tube for weight control, which is not usual, but it works for me.

I would love to hear more of your story.

Hang in there.

David,
Hillsboro, OH

FunGuy said:

Implants Done
My implant surgery went well on 5/25/12. Still have some general soreness though. In around 2 months they'll have my new dentures/implants ready to be screwed in. Should be fun.

Sadly though, I've lost 7 lbs since and am down to 152. (I used to be a pretty good athlete playing city league basketball and averaging well over 20 pts, and playing adult baseball from 2004-2007. Pretty frustrating). This is due to jaw/gum pain, lack of chewing ability, and esophagus pain. I had a stretch of 8 days of pretty bad pain. I am scheduled for an endoscopy on July 18 so my new GI guy will have a better handle of my situation.

Glad to hear the implant
Glad to hear the implant surgery went well. I went back to the oral surgeon for the 548th time (that's what it feels like anyway) this week, Gums still not healed enough for the implant surgery - he's oping by the next visit in 2 months. But he discovered the tooth next to where the bone grafts are now has an abscess and sent me off to the dentist as he is concerned the abscess will damage the bone graft. The dentist thinks the tooth will have to come out so they are talking to each other bout the best options (she is thinking the original implants but one with a bridge for the new about to be missing tooth). I wish our teeth were like sharks teeth.

Good luck with the implants and with the endoscopy.

FunGuy said:

Implants Done
My implant surgery went well on 5/25/12. Still have some general soreness though. In around 2 months they'll have my new dentures/implants ready to be screwed in. Should be fun.

Sadly though, I've lost 7 lbs since and am down to 152. (I used to be a pretty good athlete playing city league basketball and averaging well over 20 pts, and playing adult baseball from 2004-2007. Pretty frustrating). This is due to jaw/gum pain, lack of chewing ability, and esophagus pain. I had a stretch of 8 days of pretty bad pain. I am scheduled for an endoscopy on July 18 so my new GI guy will have a better handle of my situation.

Great to hear from you
Well, school's out. I'm not quite done yet, in that I still have grades to post, but I'll get that done Monday. I sincerely hope that you'll be "chewin' 'em up" here in a couple of months. Gonna have to wait on my extractions and denture work until this stupid mouth tumor is gone. (Yep, not an abscess after all... Feh...)

--Jerry