Well it has been 1 week and 3 days since the last dislocation that has required medical intervention.
The anxiety over the surgery has started, I’m not overly anxious about the operation itself it’s the concern of the pain afterwards and if it will be controlled with the usual medications as I have been on opioid medications for the previous 3 years so I’m worrying that the morphine they give you won’t have much of an effect.
My other anxiety is how long recovery will be. I’m expecting a liquid only diet for 6 weeks but I’m worrying that it will go on longer than that. I have also been given no ideas on what to expect from physiotherapy afterwards.
The research I have done has also only made me concerned about needing further operations. I hope that this is not the case and the eminectomy will do the job and sort it out for good and I will have no complications afterwards.
The complications of the eminectomy itself I have been told about is bruising, swelling, infection, nerve damage to the nerves that control facial expressions, new TMJ pain and further operations due to TMJ pain. I’m sure that the surgeon will go over these again on the day of surgery.
The guide to an Eminectomy 