#i'm so devastated dental care is so out of reach for so many people it's egregious

[backwardblackbyrd]

you know those videos of folks during osteopathic therapy where the doctor like, aligns a few bones and then the person just starts weeping???

that literally just happened to me with my jaw omg

WELL i had been really stiff around my shoulders and neck for the past like, 4 days so i was doing some deep stretches and then suddenly my jaw just.......shifted into place. like where it was actually supposed to be. my teeth still fit together and everything :')

so i had all four wisdom teeth taken out a week ago and, all of which, for context, have been impacted for...almost.....hm. a decade? between a period of no insurance and just flat out not being able to afford the care, it got Very! Bad! like, literally none of my teeth actually fit together anymore because they had been crowded so bad. the rest of my teeth were literally being crushed. i had a root canal earlier this year because the crown had been pushed out because of the pressure.

so i start crying! and keep stretching! and i'm not joking. my whole posture shifted, all the tension in my body is gone, my muscles relaxed litcherally so much that my whole right side realigned. and friend!!!! when i tell you. i'm Confident this is why i broke my ankle while skating. my hips and shit were misaligned. my sinus pressure adjusted, i felt my ear canals shift my guy

and like!!! fuck dude!! my TMJ was so drastically but so gradually stretched and inflamed that i've been licherally disassociating from my body progressively more and more for! a! decade! wild!!!!! i had no idea i had so much tension. i didn't even realize i was in so much pain in so many places like.

the normal amount of pain is Actually Zero. unheard of, a statistical anomaly,