I haven’t written for a few weeks! I am now down to 6.5mg of prednisolone after going up on good advice. I have at last come to terms with the fact that after 8 months I am not in control of how long this disease will stay with me but on the whole I am doing really well! A little fatter, a lot less energetic but I work full time in a tough job, run a home and still manage to do something most weekends!
Yesterday though a travesty happened! My tooth that was veneered holiding in my bridge snapped!!! I was left without two front teeth cute if you are 8 horrendous if you are 52!
Thank goodness to the wonders of Denplan and modern dentristry aka a pot of glue! I now have the gap filled but face months of dental work and lots of costs!
So just when you think you are on a level there is always a surprise waiting
Happy Sunday everyone and be careful I will mostly eating soup I never managed the Micheal Mosley 800 calories a day but maybe I need to think of the tooth incident as a gift. I may yet loose some weight!
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It's a very dark cloud that doesn't have a silver lining!
Strange - another PMR friend on a different forum had a similar problem just a few weeks before she is going on a cruise! The bridge was unsalvageable so she has been reduced to an emergency denture in the meantime. Not a happy bunny...
Yes my dentist has mentioned denture and laughed at me previously! However anything would be better than the gap I had yesterday! Oh the joys of being more mature I am on a cruise in December so it could have been worse
Try not to get too depressed about it. I have to stop myself going into "I'm falling apart " panic. It may be an unhappy coincidence. My crowns grumble a bit, I'd better start saving. Dental work is not only horrendously expensive but b****y unpleasant. My pretty little granny had all of her teeth out when she was about 25 in order to get a wonderful free set of NHS false teeth that would never need any work. The power of advertising. Now we all need a set of even, improbably white, Hollywood style gnashers.
I would try to treat myself to something better than before if at all possible, as a kind of compensation.
My granny had all her teeth out about 25 to 30 years old too? and a plate which seemed to work just fine?..I have asked my dentists,,instead I had severe pain for 17 years and finally have another two teeth out and its resolved ..though there are still two more teeth that are not hurting at present. I honestly did not know if it was GCA or not that I had.. back in 2007 I couldn't open my moth more than say 1.2 inch? I needed up buying old silver cutlery that was smaller to be able to eat?..and I never tried chewing gum ..and I used to love it. Thinking maybe now I should try it again and see if I can do it? If I ever did have GCA it's gone now ..after 3.5 years on prednsione...and ultrasound shows all clear now. I still don't see why I now have to have a partial plate when maybe a full one would be better..?
I seem to recall that, when I was young (in NE Scotland), that was considered a routine thing to do. Guess the idea was that if you had no teeth you couldn't have toothache.
Pre-antibiotics it would have been common to deal with severe gum disease. My mother had all her teeth out at 21. Her older sister died at over 70 with all her teeth.
ahh, that's why they were not game to leave you with teeth infections for decades..like now(or they think they fix it with root canals but the pain never quite goes away). I'm feeling heaps better after getting a root canalled tooth (that was done in 2007) pulled in 2019. :)..dumb to put up with it for so long..but I was constantly at different dentists and oral surgeons who all told me it wasn't the problem of my pain..it was!
Hi Julie R2,l think you are doing very well on the 6.5 mg of prednisolone, working full time and running your home etc, do not forget to take it easy when you can though you probably only find time to do that at weekends. As for the teeth , it is rather upsetting to lose them,l am well past the horror of that ,only a few left now having spent a fortune on crowns and veneers. All the celebrities seem to have such perfect smiles now although some of them seem to have teeth that look a bit too large for their mouths when they flash them. I hope you get yours fixed soon. I am also finding it hard to stop putting weight on,l am down to 3mg, and l hoped the weight would go down accordingly,it does not though,l do not eat large meals and try to have plenty of fruit and vegetables,but am finding my clothes getting a bit tighter and l am not lmpressed when l see myself in the mirror .All the best,hopefully we will beat the PMR eventually xx
My mum had all hers removed in her 30’s as a cure for migraine. She was left with no teeth and continuing migraines. She is now wearing at 92, the same temporary pair of false teeth she was given then. She said as they were now at last comfortable she was going to stick with them. They are still going strong and as she recovers from a second bout of Polymyalagia, at least her teeth have given her no problems!
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