New movement!!!- weeks away from the 3 year post op date...

[4cm in Pacific Northwest]

Holy doodle!

Here it is only weeks away from my 3-year post op anniversary and my dead paralyzed forehead starts to move, this week, and we can now actually see some forehead wrinkles returning...

So those of you who think that after one year of no movement it is totally hopeless (and have been told this by a doctor)    ... question that thought.

In the past few months I have asked my husband to message the head between the forehead and the crown (pulling the hair up and scrunching it -to pull up on the skin and muscles) and down on toward the neck ...

Low and behold something is now finally firing- almost 3 years later!

Here are some links to facial muscle images

Wiki
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Lateral_head_anatomy.jpg

Here are the labels on the muscles- on this wiki image
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/fa/Gray378.png

I asked him to pull the hair up (and hold) on the following muscles:
Frontalis (above the hairline only)
Galea Apncurrotica
aurculas sup
occipitalis

I also found that when he does this it almost always relieves any headaches I have (so far I have avoided medications for headaches.) I think the retrosygmoid headaches are caused by the muscle going into the titanium mesh (ie the craniatomy hole seal)  and catching on it… it seems when my husband pulls the hair up (along side the skin and muscle) it may be moving the muscle off  and away from the mesh plate.


Hmm- maybe I am on to something here.

Something is working for me  - so I thought I would share with you all… in hope it may work for others too.

DHM

[moe]

Holy doodle is right!
That is excellent news! Good info too (as usual  )
Happy for you. Keep the exercises going an let us know if you continue to have forehead movement.
Maureen

[Jackie]

Fantastic news, DHM,

What a test case you have been, and we all appreciate your willingness to share these milestones! You are an inspiration!! Continued healing!!!
Jackie

[ppearl214]

Hey my Dazy hazy mazy!!!!!!!!!!!!!        

KUDOS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Pls keep us updated! FAB news!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

xo
Pearly Whites! 

[Kaybo]

Snaps for you!!

K 

[steph28]

Hiya

Thank you for posting that. It does feel me with hope that one day I will start to get some movement. The doctors have always said to me that after 2 years the facial muscles die so there would be no improvement. How wrong are they!!

Thank you again

[jazzfunkanne]

hi what other exercises did you try over the years , am still seeing changes 3.5 years laterx

[Jeanlea]

Congratulations on your new movement.  It's good to hear that it is also helping your headaches.  It seems like there is always hope for new movement.

Jean

[epodjn]

Woo Hoo!! So glad to hear that. I was just wondering since I am 19 months out and still have no forehead movement if there was just no hope now. Wrong! Do you have any movement in your eyebrows? I have been contemplating having an eyebrow lift. I'm tired of the darn thing being so droopy and getting lost in the crease of my eye. So glad to hear from you who are still getting movement years after surgery. Keep us posted!
Julie

[Jim Scott]

DHM ~

Congratulations !  Thanks for sharing, not only the progress you've seen in your facial movements, but the inspiration inherent in that news. 

Jim

[nancyann]

I'm on my lunch break & see this post.  WHOO HOO is right !!!  You just made my day !!  CONGRATULATIONS !!  'You've come a long way baby!'
Always good thoughts,  Nancy

[mimoore]

That is very encouraging thanks for sharing!
Clink - here's to more movement!
Michelle 

[Kaybee]

That's fantastic!  My facial therapist told me the forehead would never move again and if mine did, she would write a case study on me.  I'm sending her your way!

[yardtick]

I missed this also 

I am so happy for you!!! 


Anne Marie

[juliebergeron]

Congradulations !...