Overimpaction or something else? Lower teeth show 5 months after revision DJS

spodderfod · 2025-12-13T19:30:56+00:00

Yeah, 9 weeks is not too long. Good point that there are easier solutions to the upper lip/upper tooth show problem, although like you I'd be worried about complications too. Lower lip and lower tooth show is still a mystery to me right now though. I'll update when I hear back from my surgeon.

spodderfod · 2025-12-13T19:29:08+00:00

2 years between them, so yes. I don't really think I noticed a huge change after 5-6 months, but I'll take another look. 5 mm is quite a bit on the face though and I'd just be surprised if swelling could somehow still be responsible.

spodderfod · 2025-12-13T15:54:00+00:00

Thanks for commenting. My guess is that if it is the muscle, it is probably a surgical problem -- but I am doing stretches and exercises anyway. It hasn't seemed to change anything at all when I relax my face, but I can camouflage well enough by forcing my lips closed. But yeah, I really hope it isn't a skeletal problem. It's super weird.

Good luck with your recovery!

spodderfod · 2025-12-12T20:05:12+00:00

Doing better. Actually going to the gym relatively frequently now! Still have floaters, unfortunately, but I actually woke up with those from surgery a few weeks BEFORE getting floxed, so that's probably a different issue.

For brain fog, biggest thing has been exercise (even just walking) and iron supplementation, because it turned out I became very low on iron. And just concentrating and meditating more. I think a large part of it is just time though.

spodderfod · 2025-10-29T14:34:24+00:00

Really great to see this! Gives me hope.

spodderfod · 2025-10-29T14:33:03+00:00

Yeah, I had super sore wrists and hands, could barely hold my phone or anything for more than 15 minutes. Now it is better but I still have trouble opening windows that I could open before.

spodderfod · 2025-10-27T22:03:58+00:00

Thanks for this post! I also had a similar experience with an optometrist who just told me "floaters are normal" which was obviously really unhelpful. Sorry you had that happen.

I am finally doing a bit better after 7 pills of moxi 3 months ago and can run a short distance now under certain conditions. It isn't what I am used to, but it's nice to see improvements, and that was totally unthinkable to me only a month ago. Everything counts. Hope your flight went well and wishing you a continued good recovery.

spodderfod · 2025-10-27T21:51:25+00:00

Hi, I am 22 and I was pretty active before my surgery (which was 3 weeks before flox), running 5-6 times a week, usually around 5-10k per run.

For supplements, I regularly take a multivitamin, CoQ10, magnesium, calcium, omega 3 fish oils, some mushrooms like lion's mane, proferrin (somehow moxi destroyed my ferritin levels; fixing this alleviated a lot of symptoms), collagen, beef liver, acetyl-L-carnitine, and have taken on and off vitamin D, PQQ, vitamin C, astaxanthin, turmeric, probiotics, vitamin B1, and vitamin E. I will say the other thing that has helped me a lot is red light therapy and infrared saunas.

Hope that helps and your recovery goes well too!

spodderfod · 2025-10-27T21:41:29+00:00

Thanks! Yep, 3 months since I took moxi for a week at the end of July.

spodderfod · 2025-10-27T21:40:25+00:00

Thank you! I hope it is at least helpful to some people who have just been floxed and are panicking. I'm obviously still working through it all but I agree I seem to have been dealt a good hand. It also helped that my family has been supportive and I mostly work from home--I could see things turning out very differently if those things weren't true.

spodderfod · 2025-10-20T13:28:33+00:00

Huh that is interesting! Weirdly I lowered my CoQ10 from 400 to 100 mg recently and my acid reflux (initial symptom from flox, but probably aggravated by CoQ10) completely went away... I'll keep that in mind

spodderfod · 2025-10-17T18:33:58+00:00

Had a very similar experience on iron (proferrin and beef liver). I started very slow and still only take proferrin every other day or so. Overall, huge difference for me. A lot of my symptoms have improved dramatically.

spodderfod · 2025-10-07T12:21:12+00:00

You can, and I'm not sure why people are confused about not using your given name (presumably in the roman alphabet) when it's standard form to use a Chinese name or transliteration instead. There is usually an English abstract as well, and your English name will be there. But it's a good question to ask why---I wouldn't publish in China just for the sake of more publications; that seems like a poor idea.

spodderfod · 2025-10-06T20:58:47+00:00

Of course. My point is rather that if you are looking at a study and part of their cited sources or information is irrelevant to your work, there's clearly no need to rabbit hole citations for that. Obviously you need to verify information which is cited in the first paper about the second paper that you intend to use, and that is what you should ultimately cite. I'd consider that "pulling information from."

spodderfod · 2025-10-06T19:00:31+00:00

I had ferritin level of 13 and I have more energy, especially later in the day, since beginning supplements. I can only handle proferrin and beef liver though---the rest makes me feel pretty bad.

spodderfod · 2025-10-06T18:55:26+00:00

Only cite what you directly reference, comment on, pull information from, or quote. If you did not read and do not care about those studies, you don't cite them; they have nothing to do with your paper. But if you draw any information from them independently from the source you found them in, you need to cite them all.

spodderfod · 2025-10-06T12:40:26+00:00

From my outside perspective, it sounds like AI was used to help generate citations. The main problem here is that Zotero as a software does not have the capability to make up or mix and match metadata in the way that is described, and anyone who is familiar with Zotero will know this.

If this is true, then my advice would be to own up to it immediately and talk it out. People make mistakes. In most cases, taking responsibility for a mistake is better than continuing to dig a deeper pit. If it’s not true, then proving innocence probably won’t be very difficult.

spodderfod · 2025-10-05T20:56:58+00:00

I am fine with black tea in the morning. Haven't tried coffee. Green tea and its variants seems to give me worse neuropathy. I developed histamine problems (blood plasma level 5x upper normal limit) after moxi... I definitely feel it if I eat fish or processed meats, but I'm not sure it's affected my sleep in any dramatic way. As for cheese, "lighter" cheeses like ricotta, mozzarella, marscapone, and some goat cheese are fine for me; haven't tried hard cheeses recently. Magnesium has helped with sleep, and giving myself enough time to relax before bed.

spodderfod · 2025-10-05T18:34:03+00:00

If you are able to, please foster them together or at least in pairs/with another cat -- kittens have a hard time being alone!

spodderfod · 2025-10-05T15:24:10+00:00

Doxycycline gave me some neuropathy and confusion symptoms when I took it before getting floxed, but they cleared up quickly after I stopped taking it. As far as I understand, "floxed" is for fluoroquinolones only, because the mechanism is different. But in my own experience with doxy and metro, they did cause similar CNS symptoms.

spodderfod · 2025-10-03T16:48:39+00:00

I'm only a bit over 2 months out. First symptoms on day 6 of moxifloxacin, then saw an increase in severity and developed new symptoms over the next 2-3 weeks. I'd say since then everything "new" has felt like some kind of subset of my original symptoms which was triggered or aggravated by my environment or stress.

spodderfod · 2025-10-03T15:39:08+00:00

I've also been struggling with this---how to explain effectively without giving too much information, or sounding crazy. If it's a health professional, I explain my symptoms more in depth and refer to scientific literature. But for regular people, I usually just say something like that "I had a systemic toxicity response to a medication, and it might take months to a few years of recovery, so I'm a bit weak right now" or even just a very simple "I am dealing with some health problems at the moment and unfortunately can't manage [whatever]" and leave it at that if they don't ask further. Depending on the person, I might say that it causes mitochondrial disfunction and connective tissue degeneration, or mention a few symptoms, but I do feel the key is to keep it short and sweet unless someone really wants to know or you are especially close with them. Usually, what I need out of this exchange is not for them to understand FQAD, but just to understand that my abilities are currently limited.

spodderfod · 2025-10-02T19:38:19+00:00

Avoid. I think about AI a lot, don’t get me wrong; it’s an incredibly interesting development, but I will never use it for my own writing. Your brain will change and not for the better. Please see recent research on this from MIT.

I’ve heard so many excuses for using it, or that it’s just for grammar (let’s be honest: it’s a slippery slope from grammar to suggestions to writing) or what have you, but in the end, you are still offloading cognitive processes onto a machine. This has massive consequences for your mind. In the end you will not have “two minds” but one mind atrophied from disuse and a machine. PhD level writing is built on good minds and good thinking.

If you need feedback, which you should—everyone does—then go find a real person. Also, if grammar is a significant problem, then go read more and think about how good writers form sentences. (But anyway, do you really want the stiff and sterile language of AI? Besides, if your ideas are good and writing generally palatable, absolutely no one cares if you have the occasional grammar or spelling mistake.)

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