char
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Hi,
My daughter got braces put on yesterday. Just the upper.
We sort of hated to start now as she is still miserable with lyme and dealing with picc line and all. But she is 14 and a half and it takes longer the longer you wait.
Anyway, she is in a lot of pain-I am thinking it is worse with the lyme sensitivity.
Has anyone else experienced this?
Giving tylenol and ibuprophen and milkshakes to the demise of the anti-yeast campaign.
troutscout
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My daughter has Lyme...had the braces in her fron 4 teeth...yep, increased pain was right on time with hers.
NO ibuprofen...only Tylenol.
The pain will passs on about day 4.
God Bless,
Trout
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You and your daughter have my sympathy! The first few weeks were very difficult when my daughter first got her braces at 13 (several months before her first Lyme symptoms appeared, although we didn't know it at the time, of course.)
Her orthodontist put the brackets on one week, followed a week later by the wires. The brackets irritated her gums and tongue, causing at least half a dozen major canker sores, which she is prone to any way.
Besides the things you mentioned, the other thing that helped her was tons of the wax they sell to keep braces from irritating the gums. Couldn't have survived without it!
The good news is it was mostly uphill after that first week or two. Only a few broken brackets and wires over the 18 months she had braces. The monthly tightenings seemed to bother her less as she went a long. And best of all, was seeing her beautiful toothy smile once they came off. (She would never show her teeth when smiling before she got braces.)
Hope things improve rapidly for your daughter. Suffering from braces and Lyme sounds tough indeed.
Lesley
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char
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Thanks for the encouragement. It helps just to get validation that yes this is harder on our kids with lyme than others.
Those canker sores sound awful!
Glad to hear of the good outcomes.
Tonight is better where she is not getting wound up with the pain.
Michelle M
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Hang in there.
My daughter got em too for a severe overbite and teeth misalighment problem that could otherwise not be corrected except surgically.
Yup, they're gonna hurt for a while. Liquid Advil helped. And soft stuff helped. No way around it, really. Oatmeal, mashed potatoes, baked/broiled fish dishes (ie, tilapia, salmon, orange roughy).
It takes only a short while till they acclimate, though. And will cheerfully be chomping pizza again.
Then you've got to harass them to get them to use the special floss threaders and clean between the teeth.
Have her use the wax for "owie" spots.
We had "other appliances" installed also for a long time -- hated 'em but they were necessary, i.e., a spreader bar on roof of mouth, etc.
Prepare that each time the orthodontist sees her she will get good news and bad: good=new colors; bad=heavier wire and some discomfort, which will pass.
Pass the mashed potatoes and pump up the probiotics!
Hope she's feeling better soon.
Michelle
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I had em as a kid so I can tell you first hand ..... lyme or not THEY HURT! My duaghter just got hers off after 2.5 years. She has had lyme with hers and I felt the pain was no worse with the lyme. But of course everyone is different with pain.
poor kid..... this too shall pass but be prepared that anytime they add something like rubberbands or power chains it will hurt worse all over again.
good luck. pattiecake
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