Yesterday, before going to bed, I finally began to feel my tongue again instead of just some big blob taking up space in my mouth. With feeling back, it doesn’t seem half so big now. I don’t know if it was swollen and numb or just numbness giving the illusion of it being far bigger than it is.
My lips hurt like heck too. particularly on my right side (where the teeth causing this problem had been). The bottom lip was definitely swollen, and looked like it had been stretched so far (to open my mouth) that there might be some cuts/tearing there. I used the lip balm that I really love. It felt weird putting it on, it was like moving around a piece of dead meat (my lip) and was totally icky sensation-wise as well as mental-wise. I was getting kind of worried about when I’d start regaining sensation in the lips. Well, they did HURT, but it’s that combo of hurt/numb/pins and needles feeling. And last night they were probably THE most uncomfortable feeling of the whole thing, including the aching in the tooth nerve areas. The lips basically drowned out the pain of those tooth nerves.
I had called the dentist office to ask for an estimate of when senation would come back in my lips. But they were closed. I figured that if at least some of it didn’t go away in the night, then I’d call them in the morning. But, at about 2pm when i woke up from the pain of the teeth (still had two hours to go before next pain killer), i noticed that I had almost all feeling back in my lips AND that their swollenness had drastically calmed down to almost normal. Now I can finally use them to help me drink (keeping more water in my mouth instead of dribbling down my chin), but i still have to be careful because if I use them as normal, it pulls on some stuff along that tooth area and that hurts!
Anyhoot, I’m looking forward to life getting somewhat back to normal (but with improvements).
