I thought they were overpriced at first but, they lock my teeth in place so I don’t loosen them out of my jaw or crack em.
I can tell when I use my emergency ones, which are more comfortable to sleep with but, the custom ones give me way more relief in the morning.
I have the custom one in its case, sitting on my bed.
I proposed to my doctor that he inject my jaw with botox and the back of me neck a couple years ago.
I thought he was going to fall out of his chair he was laughing so hard.
I started laughing too(I guess that stuff’s contagious) and I had no idea what was so funny. Particularly that day, I felt like I was dying.
So he tells me about the properties of Botox or tried to. He just kept laughing and I along with him.
And asks me to imagine waling around like the elephant man because I can’t hold my head and being slack jawed with my mouth wide open becaue the botox basically relaxed and froze the muscle.
I started laughing harder and he did too.
In a high pitched tone, sounded like a little girl, I responded “I’m already one of your slack jawed patients. So what’s the difference now?”.
He said something in a similar tone and completely inaudible.
We were laughing so hard, when his office manager came in and demanded to know what we were doing we just laughed with these idiotic high pitched tones, till neither of us could breathe and then it was just silent.
I remember his office manager saying “You guys are idiots” and she just walked off and closed the door.
I think it took us another 10 or 15 minutes to compose ourselves.
When I went to pay my bill the office manager looked up at me and then just looked down to write out my receipt and said “I don’t know what you two back there but, your both stupid”.
Well, Dr. had just stepped behind her to get his next patients chart and we looked at each other and just started laughing.
She stomped off saying “When you children are ready to act like adults, let me know. I’m going to have a cigarette!”.
Dr and I started laughing again and another patient was nice enough to give us some tissues to wipe the tears from our eyes and then everyone was chuckling.
So I finally make it outside and his office manager is smoking.
She looks at me and snaps “What?! You got a problem with smoking?”
“Nope” I smiled “Smoking causes busy bodies and statistics”
She finally laughed and we smoked a cigarette together.
One of the funniest Dr. visits ever....
Maybe I needed a good laugh.
I think my headache is pretty much gone...
Thnx....
That’s a great story, Vendome. I am guessing that you have many of them. :)