Dental issues
Well, life is a learning process as they say. Today I learned never to trust an orthodontist. Really, in retrospect I should have ran as far as I possibly could, but no, I was unfortunately stupid enough to go and see one about four years ago...
So now while I have super straight lovely shiny white teeth, my bite is a total catastrophe. Apparently orthodontists quite often just straighten your teeth and don't give a hoot about how your bite will be. This is what the dentist told me today. I keep getting pain in my jaw and she said she wasn't surprised with the way I bite! Basically, thanks to the orthodontist, when I bite only the last two teeth actually meet, hence all the pressure is on them and this causes me to be in large amounts of pain.
She also said that my teeth were really well looked after - she was really impressed with me in fact! I do sadly have 3 little bits of caries though, but those are easily taken care of the next time I go there. She said that most people my age have far worse teeth than mine. So at least I can be happy about that!
However, the bite problem will take a while to correct (seemingly like all my health issues!). Also apparently I push my tongue forward when I swallow, which one isn't supposed to do, so this puts extra pressure on my teeth, so now I need logopaedic treatment as well as all the other treatment for my CFS and chronic glandular fever that I need!! Holy crap! At least my health insurance will pay for dental stuff and logopaedic treatment - they, however, do not pay for my CFS and glandular fever treatment, as I see alternative medical people for that and as they are not "real" doctors one doesn't get any money for it. Which is funny as they have been the only people who have helped me get better so far!! I don't give a toss whether it is considered alternative or not - frankly, at first I also thought it sounded a bit weird the stuff they do, but I gave it a go and hey presto! I am a lot better than I was. I am still really hoping to be well enough to do part-time work by January, or I might actually eventually really lose it if I have to spend my entire life sitting at home resting. As well as that I apparently have a long life line (I'm not sure whether I believe that, but as I take after my dad's side looks and health wise I always presumed I would be around for ages, as my great-grandma almost made it to 100 and my grandma is still around too, almost 90 now), so this means I will spend a very long life sitting at home having to rest or if I don't I make myself more ill. People unfortunately don't even understand this, unless they suffer from CFS themselves, as they just assume you're a lazy cow and shouldn't be such a wussy. The point that you get really, really ill if you push yourself beyond your limits and then have to start the recovery process all over again seems not to matter to them. Even doctors tell me that you have to do stuff if you can and not if you can't - this is the only way to get over anything chronic! You have to listen to your body and know your limits basically.
Anyway, apparently my bite is so bad that if I was a boy the German army would never have accepted me as they would assume that I will get all sorts of health issues from it - starting that I cannot eat properly so eventually might end up getting stomach issues, so it would just cost them way too much money! Going to the army in Germany is compulsory for men, unless you want to do community service instead, which is probably what I would have chosen had I been a boy. I don't think I would have wanted to learn how to kill people. I think you need to be in the army for 9 months and do community service for 12 months instead if you don't want to join the army. It used to be longer, but they shortened the time you have to be there. I sometimes wish that I had been a boy, as I might have had less issues with CFS and stuff like that, as apparently men are less likely to get things like that. Most people who have CFS are female. Lucky us! If I had been a boy one of my female friends might have been happy too, as she once said she would probably fancy me if I was male lol. She also thinks I need to definitely reproduce as the world needs more efficient people like me! Frankly I am considering becoming a nun, men are such disappointments! Really, why bother... one should just stay friends with them is the conclusion I have come to! I think I will become a crazy old lonely cat lady instead!
They also did a panorama X-ray of my mouth, which is quite funny and looks like this.
So hopefully logopaedic treatment will help, if not they said they could try to do some stuff with some sort of filing technique to try to sort my bite out, if that fails it'll be back to an orthodontist (obviously not the one who fucked it all up in the first place), which is funnily enough how all these problems started. They also said that usually children are treated by logopaedics (is that how you call them in English?), but thinking back I am sure that I didn't do the tongue thing as a kid, I think I just started doing it when I had a lose brace as I didn't know where to put my tongue, so again it seems to be a more recent problem if you ask me. I am sure they would have noticed when I was little if I had needed logopaedic treatment.
Anyway, rant over now. ;)