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MissTaken
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Tactless Blurt!
Okay, I am dying to know the answers to some questions:
Does the modification affect your speech?
Was it a surgical procedure or a series of piercings?
It hurt. How bad did it hurt? Did you need to take any special precautions? How did you eat?
Does it affect your eating now?
Did I misuse the word "affect" again?
Okay, I am dying to know the answers to some questions:
Does the modification affect your speech?
Was it a surgical procedure or a series of piercings?
It hurt. How bad did it hurt? Did you need to take any special precautions? How did you eat?
Does it affect your eating now?
Did I misuse the word "affect" again?
A Desert Rose
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Who would agree to do this proceedure?
(Miss T, you asked the other questions I already have.)
(Miss T, you asked the other questions I already have.)
ammre
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MissTaken said:You are a lovely lady!
The modification is interesting. I hope I am not being rude, but I was wondering what led to your doing this?
I heard about it 3 years ago and i became curious. I learned about it a lot and researched why other people would do it. Than i met people who had it and became friends, so having one seemed normal, it becamse not to taboo and far off. Eventuitally i came to imagine having it myself. I could imagine having two pices and being able to control them.
ammre
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Re: Tactless Blurt!
Right now i'm relearning how to speak. It's been a week and a half and most of my speech distortions have come from the swelling and also some of the pain i had before. But now that my swelling is going down and the pain is gone i'm speaking almost as well as i did before. I know i speak better than some people out there.
The procedure was semi surgical. It involved a scalpel. It was heated with a blow torch so that it cauterized as it cut. Than 6 stiches were put into place to keep the exposed healing skin tucked away, to round the edges, and tokeep the pices from healing back together.
it hurt a bit. The actual time of the hot scalpel on my tongue was a bunch of very short bursts. The stiches were more annoying becasue it was a tiny needle going through the side of a new wound twice than typing and being pulled tight. Than you do that 6 times. Healing it, it was swollen and it hurt to speak... Getting the stiches out was a pain as well becasue my tongue was still tender adn swollen and he had to pinch the stiches and pull them taught to slice through them and pull them out. the tip of my tongue where there was stiches the exposed insides had a hard time healing and had a lot of reddish sore spots for a few days and when anything touched them, it would cause a lot of pain. I laughed during the procedure, but when he was taking the stiches out he dabbed my tongue with technicare and he dabbed a sore spot and the technicare burns a little, it hurt so bad i curled up in a ball and cried for a few minuts. The only time i cry from pain is when it's frustrating and in pain.
As for special precautions i just had to do sea salt soaks, and pull open the regrowth every morning/night.
and i really didn't eat. Pudding and oatmeal were my friends. For a week i had about 1000 calories, but i lost like 10 lbs.
My eating is getting back to normal. it's learning how to control the pices and making sure you don't jab any crusts or other pointy stuff into the new scar tissue. Also when i get stuff stuck to the top of my mouth it's hard to manipulate my tongue to pick it off. I'll regain all that control when i practice, but right now the slight swelling and lack of practice makes it difficult.
i can't tell the difference between effect and affect. I should check www.dictionary.com.
MissTaken said:Okay, I am dying to know the answers to some questions:
Does the modification affect your speech?
Was it a surgical procedure or a series of piercings?
It hurt. How bad did it hurt? Did you need to take any special precautions? How did you eat?
Does it affect your eating now?
Did I misuse the word "affect" again?
Right now i'm relearning how to speak. It's been a week and a half and most of my speech distortions have come from the swelling and also some of the pain i had before. But now that my swelling is going down and the pain is gone i'm speaking almost as well as i did before. I know i speak better than some people out there.
The procedure was semi surgical. It involved a scalpel. It was heated with a blow torch so that it cauterized as it cut. Than 6 stiches were put into place to keep the exposed healing skin tucked away, to round the edges, and tokeep the pices from healing back together.
it hurt a bit. The actual time of the hot scalpel on my tongue was a bunch of very short bursts. The stiches were more annoying becasue it was a tiny needle going through the side of a new wound twice than typing and being pulled tight. Than you do that 6 times. Healing it, it was swollen and it hurt to speak... Getting the stiches out was a pain as well becasue my tongue was still tender adn swollen and he had to pinch the stiches and pull them taught to slice through them and pull them out. the tip of my tongue where there was stiches the exposed insides had a hard time healing and had a lot of reddish sore spots for a few days and when anything touched them, it would cause a lot of pain. I laughed during the procedure, but when he was taking the stiches out he dabbed my tongue with technicare and he dabbed a sore spot and the technicare burns a little, it hurt so bad i curled up in a ball and cried for a few minuts. The only time i cry from pain is when it's frustrating and in pain.
As for special precautions i just had to do sea salt soaks, and pull open the regrowth every morning/night.
and i really didn't eat. Pudding and oatmeal were my friends. For a week i had about 1000 calories, but i lost like 10 lbs.
My eating is getting back to normal. it's learning how to control the pices and making sure you don't jab any crusts or other pointy stuff into the new scar tissue. Also when i get stuff stuck to the top of my mouth it's hard to manipulate my tongue to pick it off. I'll regain all that control when i practice, but right now the slight swelling and lack of practice makes it difficult.
i can't tell the difference between effect and affect. I should check www.dictionary.com.
ammre
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A Desert Rose said:
A piercer i know who has specialized in doing tongue splits. He is also very proficient in scarification, piericings, implants (transdermal and subdermal) and brandings. I've promised to not give out his information though becasue where he lives just outlawed the procedure, two days after i got it done.
Some oral surgeons will do it. very few but they can.
I mean, who woudl agree to stick a glob of silicone in a woman's breast skin, or burn and suck out fat form under the skin... It's just another cosmetic surgery.
Desdemona
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You're way braver than me. I'm light headed and nauseous just from reading your description of the procedure. If it makes you happy, then I'm glad for you.
Here is my question. Is it reversable? After all, you're relatively young. You may decide in a few years that you would prefer to have a one piece tongue again. (Yeah, I know that probably isn't conceivable to you now, but life and time tends to change your perspective on such things.)
Here is my question. Is it reversable? After all, you're relatively young. You may decide in a few years that you would prefer to have a one piece tongue again. (Yeah, I know that probably isn't conceivable to you now, but life and time tends to change your perspective on such things.)
WriterDom
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I think I'd rather have mine sharpened than split. Or better yet, left alone. But I'm old. Growing up, none of the girls in playboy had tattoos.
I guess it is good if you are eating an ice cream cone and it's dripping down in two places.
I guess it is good if you are eating an ice cream cone and it's dripping down in two places.
ammre
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Desdemona said:
out of the 2000 something tongue splits out there, there's only one known reversal. That was becasue the military forced him to, not becasue he wanted it.
It is possible to reverse. You'd have to abrade the skin off the center and suture the tongue together to make it heal. It's much more painful than the initial split, it also ruins mobility, taste, and flexibility.
you can read about that man's reconstruction here
