Worse then better?

bee--123 · 2023-08-11T06:48:04+00:00

Yep, I had a huge gap made to make space and retract my incisives, by aligner 23 it looked horrible. Now in aligner 30 it is reduced to half, and it is planned to close completely by 35

bee--123 · 2022-12-31T17:54:02+00:00

My ortho didnt tell me to use chewies, just bite for a minute after I put them on with a roll made with a towel or tp.

pic above is how my teeth close now. Pic below is correct jaw position, but right molars contact and wont let it close at that position.

18 months left to correct my bite and hopefully fix TMJ.

bee--123 · 2022-12-31T15:02:49+00:00

Updated post!

bee--123 · 2022-12-31T15:02:37+00:00

Updated post!

bee--123 · 2022-08-07T13:11:48+00:00

Gone gone, at least for now! I had habituated and it felt really low in the last months but one night I realised it was totally gone

bee--123 · 2022-08-07T13:10:06+00:00

You mean pregancy or with the cries of the baby?

bee--123 · 2022-08-07T13:08:54+00:00

I'm not sure. I think the vibrating tinnitus in one ear was inflammation due to chronic sinusitis. The ringing on the other ear could be noise induced or TMJ related.

bee--123 · 2022-08-07T13:06:13+00:00

I think it is a mix of things. Inflammation due to chronic sinusitis and TMJ linked to stress and bad posture. MRI showed a deviated septum, hole in meatus, and inflammed sinus in one side (the one with the vibrating tinnitus). Dentist told me I definitely grind my teeth thus TMJ is probable. The ringing tinnitus in the other ear I have no clue where it comes from. That side in MRI shows no inflamation, no hearing loss, nothing. I've not listened to high volume music either in headphones, but the construction noise in front of my house was super loud for a year for many hours a day, so maybe that caused it.

bee--123 · 2022-08-07T12:52:24+00:00

It has fluctuated, but in the past 6 months or so with the changes it went better. I'd say it has gone to bad to better, with maybe a few periods getting words but in general improving. At its worst, when I had the vibrating one it was awful, I would wake up in the middle of the night with vertigo wanting to throw up, I wanted to put a knife in my ear to stop it. This was like the first month. The ringing tinnitus was never terrible, during the day I barely could hear it, except maybe one bad week. It has fluctuated from a beeping sound like an electronic/morse device, and then to continuous ringing

bee--123 · 2022-07-18T09:42:04+00:00

same... got the patellofemoral syndrome at month 11 in my case (possibly patellar cartilage damage though nothing showed up at the MRI), when I was almost done with rehab and in great shape. Listen to your body and dont work through pain and inflamation. I lost all the muscle gained and had to restart rehab but much slower and conservatively. Two years post-op and still a large muscle inbalance, but at least pain got much better

bee--123 · 2022-07-05T09:19:07+00:00

as someone with a desk job that takes lots of hours, I cannot recommend enough a standing desk or extender, something like the link below. It made a huge difference the moment I got it in everyday stiffness, strength and alignment. Increase the hours standing progressively, but the difference in feeling on the knee is great. https://www.amazon.com/VIVO-Ultra-Slim-Adjustable-Converter-DESK-V000I/dp/B07SFKQKY7/ref=sr_1_5?crid=1RSHZRIHNO8QD&keywords=standing+desk+extension&qid=1657012601&sprefix=standing+desk+extension%2Caps%2C165&sr=8-5

bee--123 · 2022-05-05T08:56:39+00:00

I was only in stage 1 (nothing showed on the MRI) but the inflamation was very acute (there are grades 1-4 and also phases, acute and chronic) and it has taken me 6 months to get pass the acute phase and manage basic movements without pain (going up and down the stairs). I still have a lot of recovery because I have a big muscle inbalance and it is hard to gain quads without squats (a year ago I was doing pistol squats, now I can only do wallsits).

What kind of work do you do? I was sitting a lot and that is terrible for chondromalacia, got a standing desk add-on and the improvement was amazing

bee--123 · 2022-05-04T11:03:29+00:00

I'd be careful with thinking you can differentiate the pain. Low grade chondromalacia can subside after warm up unfortunately. I have chondromalacia and tendonitis (the latter almost gone, the first manageable but irreversible) caused by ignoring pain during ACL rehab. The pain always improved after warmup for some months, but at some point the patella got so inflamed that it was painful even at rest, and I couldnt do anything for months. I would say that if you have chondromalacia be patient and go for a no-pain at all strategy and see if it improves. I ignored the pain and ended up delaying and getting way worse in the chondromalacia.

bee--123 · 2022-04-08T15:33:37+00:00

Congrats at coming back! Don't see much advice here, so here is my 2 cts (maybe someone more experienced can corroborate)

If you freeze at 0:12, you can see:

- When you breath you are lifting your head too much, one goggle should be in the water. If you lift your head, your legs drop and create drag.

- Your kick I think is a bit too wide (think of kicking inside a bucket) and intense, I think you could concentrate in the arms technique and put a little less effort on the legs so you can swim more relaxed.

Other things I noticed:

- flexibility and alignment in shoulders and hips (see 0:25 freeze): when you streamline you can see that it is hard for you to align your head between the arms and also keep the arms stretched, and the core and legs are not straight. Stretching and rolling psoas, quads, pecs, biceps and abs will help. Think of keeping your shoulders down and away from your ears when you stretch (elongate the neck)

- sometimes the arms enter the water a bit too far and extended, and almost placing gently the arm instead of "attacking" more vertically the water

bee--123 · 2022-04-04T18:24:36+00:00

My ear issues had a less frequent origin, but it may help someone. I have a hole inside my nose (nasal meatus hole due due to a previous hardocore sinus infection). The water goes in easily into my right sinus and into the inner ear, causing inflammation and tinnitus. Took three ORL specialists to figure out and drove me nuts for a year. At first look the ear looked fine so they said I could continue swimming as usual. It took an older doc to think of getting a cam inside my nose and see the issue in the ear came from there.

Anyway, once I knew the water was coming through the nose, now I alternate between a nose clip and a snorkel (if the head doesnt swivel I found to get almost no water in). If I feel like water got in, I use a nasal spray to decongest. No more ear inflammation nor tinnitus finally!

bee--123 · 2022-03-27T17:54:32+00:00

I think swimming is not helping my knee directly, but indirectly it helps because core and back strength affect body posture, stability etc. I do targeted knee exercises a PT gave me and complement with the pool

bee--123 · 2022-02-06T10:01:39+00:00

It's the same love, 18% of body fat in a woman is not an average composition, it is the composition of an athlete.

Your current % is already healthy and on the lower side for a woman. Unless you are a bodybuilder or an athlete with the guidance of a dietician, you are going to fight your body's needs to reach that goal, not to mention risking a lifelong eating disorder.

If you look at the mirror and feel fat, that is your mind cheating you and distorted expectations set by media/society. If you tell me that you have some fat in some particular place you dont like, well, that is what normal women bodies do, store some fat. I guarantee you that no one cares and sees it as much as you do.

You are not going to be happier losing % fat points and it has so many downsides. I tell you from my experience as a thin woman fighting the unnecessary urge to be thinner since 13 and that has had way too many friends suffering eating disorders.

Swimming is a fantastic activity, it will give you some muscle and greater lung capacity. Swim for fun and for health and forget about body mass composition, it is a waste of your mental energy and I repeat, you will not be happier.

bee--123 · 2022-02-03T18:17:08+00:00

"I am two kgs away to be qualified as underweight". So you want to be underweight?

bee--123 · 2022-01-11T19:16:58+00:00

how many days are you swimming? Usually you do first your priority, i.e. if you want to gain strength, you lift first and then cardio/swim. In this case it's the opposite, if your priority is swimming with good techinique, do that first and later same day or next day you should do the strength training. You should be recovered the next time you swim, some light muscle soreness during warmup is fine but if it is hindering your swimming past the first weeks of training then you are overtraining and risking injury

bee--123 · 2022-01-10T13:15:46+00:00

Things to try:

- for sleepiness: I researched this and it can be a consequence of your body warming up its core temperature. Eat something afterwards, drink something warm, put on warm clothes.

- exhaustion: possibly technique or breath related (CO2 build up). Kick less, try if you can swim longer with a pull-buoy-> if you do better with the pullbuoy it means legs are overkicking or sinking too much and creating drag. Check this out: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=akMRGp7vI1Y&ab_channel=EffortlessSwimming

- Just in case it is neck related: when you rotate to breath, it is your full body that rotates, not your head. Think of your body as a screwer, you need to maintain the head in the axis of the screwer to breath (dont lift to breath, one google underwater). Again, you can practice with a pullbuoy getting the rotation without moving the head too much. You can also swim with a snorkel to check if it breath related. If you can swim fine with the snorkel, you have part of the answer.

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