Hey guys.
I've been meaning to do this for a while.
I'll try to be brief. I had an adenoidectomy when I was around 4. This made my face slightly asymmetrical and caused a retraction of my maxilla. This led to what dentists call a "class 3 malloclusion". In my childhood pictures my eyes always look kind of feverish. They don't in the pictures of when I was very little, before the surgery. Basically I believe the operation led me to a situation of chronic stress. Structural craniofacial complications. I started developing OCD when I was around 7. I know there's a relation between teeth, face, cranium and OCD.
Just a theory, but here's me as a small kid, before the surgery:
And here's me a few years later, after the surgery:
Idk if you can see it. But I was a very happy outgoing kid until I was around 4. I started being kind of neurotic after that.
The orthodontist detected recession of the maxilla/prognathism in my post-surgery pictures.
Anyway. I had braces -- the fixed on teeth kind -- from 15 to 21 years old. In order to correct said malloclusion. Shouldn't they have probed my medical history a little bit before putting the braces on me? I think what they essentially did was pull my mandible back to fit my already retracted maxilla. I had a virile face as a teen, I have a... not so manly face now. The dentist I recently saw think my face looks better now, I've shown him a lot of pics old and new. I disagree. Sure, my upper teeth match my lower teeth structurally speaking, no "malloclusion" there anymore. Ain't that great. But I used to have a great jawline, and I don't anymore.
Here's me at 12 or 13, before braces:
Here's me after two years with braces. That's when I started noticing my asymmetrical nose, which I didn't realize was being caused or exarcebated by the braces. Jawline seems to have been slightly compromised, too.
But it's not just about looks. Here's the thing. Ever since I was 18 years old, whenever I would read something that demands extra concentration, it would be physically uncomfortable. For a long while the issue was line breaks. The "saccadic" eye movement from one line to the next. Recently I even get a physical twitch somewhere in my face, skull or neck between one line and another. Other times this particular issue goes away but it's still uncomfortable. I can't relax at all and just read. Unless it's a blog, a message board post, something idle. But if I try to read an actual novel the discomfort sets in. I'm confident it's related to the braces. I'll explain it in more detail eventually. This is just a summation. But basically, my face feels crooked. The "line" of my vision is not horizontal. Indeed, sometimes it feels like it "shifts" while I'm reading. Like the horizontal motion of reading line after line makes that happen.
I have to assume strange body positions while I read. And make some sort of slow to-and-fro repetitive motion with my feet or just slowly turning left and right in my chair.
Anyway. When I got the braces removed at age 21, like the very same day, my face began feeling uncomfortable. I have described in in another thread. The thing that most peeves me about this is that listenign to music exarcebates the feeling a lot. I basically can't listen to music. It's a major bummer. Whether on headphones or a stereo, it just makes the feeling on my face and skull get all the more stronger. This feeling like everything's crooked. It's hard to describe.
Anyway. As I have said before, SSRI's attenuated this feeling a lot. I took venlafaxine for years. I could listen to music again while I was on it. One year and a half ago I took escitalopram for a week. That worked even better. But you know, not peaty, made me lose hair, etc. But some of the peaty supplements help attenuate the discomfort too, although not as strongly.
Namely, magnesium and vitamin D. What is it about them that could have this effect? What do magnesium and vitamin D have in common with those SSRI's?
I have found some TMJ exercises on Youtube that are helpful. And Orthotropics ties into this as well, as pointed out in the title. But that's for another post.
Thanks for reading. Any advice will be greatly appreciated.
I've been meaning to do this for a while.
I'll try to be brief. I had an adenoidectomy when I was around 4. This made my face slightly asymmetrical and caused a retraction of my maxilla. This led to what dentists call a "class 3 malloclusion". In my childhood pictures my eyes always look kind of feverish. They don't in the pictures of when I was very little, before the surgery. Basically I believe the operation led me to a situation of chronic stress. Structural craniofacial complications. I started developing OCD when I was around 7. I know there's a relation between teeth, face, cranium and OCD.
Just a theory, but here's me as a small kid, before the surgery:
And here's me a few years later, after the surgery:
Idk if you can see it. But I was a very happy outgoing kid until I was around 4. I started being kind of neurotic after that.
The orthodontist detected recession of the maxilla/prognathism in my post-surgery pictures.
Anyway. I had braces -- the fixed on teeth kind -- from 15 to 21 years old. In order to correct said malloclusion. Shouldn't they have probed my medical history a little bit before putting the braces on me? I think what they essentially did was pull my mandible back to fit my already retracted maxilla. I had a virile face as a teen, I have a... not so manly face now. The dentist I recently saw think my face looks better now, I've shown him a lot of pics old and new. I disagree. Sure, my upper teeth match my lower teeth structurally speaking, no "malloclusion" there anymore. Ain't that great. But I used to have a great jawline, and I don't anymore.
Here's me at 12 or 13, before braces:
Here's me after two years with braces. That's when I started noticing my asymmetrical nose, which I didn't realize was being caused or exarcebated by the braces. Jawline seems to have been slightly compromised, too.
But it's not just about looks. Here's the thing. Ever since I was 18 years old, whenever I would read something that demands extra concentration, it would be physically uncomfortable. For a long while the issue was line breaks. The "saccadic" eye movement from one line to the next. Recently I even get a physical twitch somewhere in my face, skull or neck between one line and another. Other times this particular issue goes away but it's still uncomfortable. I can't relax at all and just read. Unless it's a blog, a message board post, something idle. But if I try to read an actual novel the discomfort sets in. I'm confident it's related to the braces. I'll explain it in more detail eventually. This is just a summation. But basically, my face feels crooked. The "line" of my vision is not horizontal. Indeed, sometimes it feels like it "shifts" while I'm reading. Like the horizontal motion of reading line after line makes that happen.
I have to assume strange body positions while I read. And make some sort of slow to-and-fro repetitive motion with my feet or just slowly turning left and right in my chair.
Anyway. When I got the braces removed at age 21, like the very same day, my face began feeling uncomfortable. I have described in in another thread. The thing that most peeves me about this is that listenign to music exarcebates the feeling a lot. I basically can't listen to music. It's a major bummer. Whether on headphones or a stereo, it just makes the feeling on my face and skull get all the more stronger. This feeling like everything's crooked. It's hard to describe.
Anyway. As I have said before, SSRI's attenuated this feeling a lot. I took venlafaxine for years. I could listen to music again while I was on it. One year and a half ago I took escitalopram for a week. That worked even better. But you know, not peaty, made me lose hair, etc. But some of the peaty supplements help attenuate the discomfort too, although not as strongly.
Namely, magnesium and vitamin D. What is it about them that could have this effect? What do magnesium and vitamin D have in common with those SSRI's?
I have found some TMJ exercises on Youtube that are helpful. And Orthotropics ties into this as well, as pointed out in the title. But that's for another post.
Thanks for reading. Any advice will be greatly appreciated.
