This I would agree 100% with...and I would say most dentists don't know how to properly diagnose and treat this problem...a clean bill of health from a dentist or ENT is meaningless when you have it...DRASTIC wrote:I say this because some dentist dont check us thoroughly yet they yell us allis well.
As for me, well, I've just passed the 7 month mark since the extraction surgery and still in a holding pattern at about 90% better waiting for those bottom sockets to fully seal up with new bone and gum tissue. Their pace is excruciatingly slow, like watching paint dry.
For periods of a few days or so I will now get no reactions from anyone whatsoever, no matter how deeply I breathe in before talking, no sniffles, no index finger rubs across the bottom of people's noses. But for a few days after that I will get those types of reactions quite a few times a day...they are almost always very minor reactions compared to how they used to be, but still, a reaction is a reaction. So my life alternates between those two patterns.
Thing is that even when people do react slightly, it doesn't make me recoil in horror anymore and I can genuinely say that I don't let it bother me, because I know I've done all I can and it just takes time, and because I know what the source of the problem is and have been treating it.
The continued presence of reactions, however small or rare they may be though, doesn't allow you to forget about the problem (which is partly why I still post here), so that does get me thinking every now and then about just how much more I can really expect to improve once those bottom sockets fully seal and the indentations are completely gone. I'd like to think I'd be 100% better, but it's just been such a long wait that the diabolical thought process that starts looking at other things (you know, the same grasping at straws you guys go through wondering if it's the stomach one day, your tongue the next and so on) has somewhat crept in again and I look at my other teeth, especially my one impacted 2nd molar and just wonder whether the wisdom teeth were 100% of the problem and still just need more time, or whether they were 90% of the problem and have gotten about as good as they're ever gonna be, and the other 10% lies in that other tooth or yet another or yet elsewhere.
The second option is enough to drive one crazy, so I'd rather stick with the first, but also because the days where I still get slight reactions are ones where I've done my best brushing and flossing. So for right now I'm still waiting for the day this dying dragon takes its last breath, still fairly confident the extraction 7 months ago struck the fatal blow.
Mankind is such a fickle being; when something changes in our lives we easily forget how good/bad we used to have it. And though I still look at this problem with a view of imperfection since it is still not 100.000% gone yet, it's impossible to compare the life of suffering, isolation and loneliness I used to lead and my very sociably confident life now..the 90+% improvement is quite literal and is everything that an improvement of that magnitude is for anything else. But as time wears on, I do catch myself mentally making that 90% improvement the new 0% improvement and have to stop myself.