hey this is dr amanda with straight smile solutions streetsmouthsolutions.com the
topic today is a very random one that i never ever thought i'd make but sometimes i stumble
across things in my research and in my personal experience and i'm like oh my
goodness people might want to hear about this so today the topic is and i'm literally there's
zero research on this i am literally creating a hypothesis based on personal experience is
tongue tie release surgery you know um a glossectomy or whatever you want to call it
a solution for perimenopausal sleep symptoms and of course there's plenty para peri menopausal
symptoms that women in their 40s and 50s have i i guess i'm one of them i'm starting to be one
of them i'm almost 50 believe it or not i feel like i'm five but um whenever women get together
who are about my age they're always bitching and moaning about their symptoms so clearly
i'm not the only one that has trouble sleeping one day i'm hot one day i'm just up i wake up
you know kind of things going on just it's not like it was before it sucks so anyways if you
haven't heard my whole journey about my tongue thai release surgery which was last month yay
actually was this month it was a few weeks ago it is a long haul adventure i mean it starts with omt
getting prepped starts with cervical chiropractor getting prepped for the tendons and the
and the fascia and all that stretching them out getting them lined up and then you go get your
surgery and then you do more omt to stretch the the scars and to make sure it's healing properly
and then you do more chiral so i would say for me it's gonna probably all in all be at least
a nine month to 12 month process about halfway through right now i'm over the hump but anyways
i went through that whole tongue thai stuff not because i thought i needed it but because i
wanted to make some content around working with omts oral myofunctional therapists and how you
can work with them to help make more optimal orthodontic cases better outcomes less relapse
especially in habits patients and airway patients and it was something i just i knew some about but
i didn't know a lot about so i went through the whole screening process and diagnostics process
just to show people what it looks like to be um screened and diagnosed by an omt and then
i found out i had like tons of problems that i didn't know i had like bad i was like shoot
okay some of this really really makes sense now and definitely sleep for me has been
terrible always always always always got a lot worse once you get married have kids and pets
but i mean it's just it's always been bad always waking up all the time having difficulty sleeping
so anything that helps me with sleep i'm all over so i was told that it might help so i said let's
do it let's let me know i'm going to tell you if you want to watch all my content i've made on this
whole process and everything in that general you know mix of stuff you can go to my youtube channel
which is called straight smile solutions from there you're going to see various um
playlists go to the one towards the bottom it says like interceptive phase one omt watch that
one all the stuff you need is in there so anyways yes it's absolutely nuts i had my
surgery two weeks from today two weeks ago today and the most trippy thing is a couple times in the
last two weeks i would go to bed no problem just crash fall asleep you know i usually sleep pretty
early like eight-ish but usually i wake up at least twice during the night or something wakes me
up i'm a super light sleeper you know and it takes a while to go back to sleep and i'm sending emails
at two in the morning and stuff and whatever i mean that's fine um but that's just that's
just how i operate that's how it's been in my life for at least 15 20 years i mean that's just normal
crazy thing happened last since i had my surgery at least three times possibly four times in the
last two weeks i slept totally through the night i mean i know i sound like a mom like
my baby slept through the night i slept through the night like i literally went to sleep close
my eyes and when i woke up it was time to get up that's nuts that's nuts i didn't go through the
restroom i didn't get up to deal with animals i didn't just get woken up by somebody snoring
i just slept so that was the most awesome day and then it happened and then it
happened again and i was like this has to do with my tongue tie release this is so
cool shoot have you guys someone had told me this 10 15 years ago i would have been all over getting
this done are you kidding me if i knew would bring a better quality of life being more rested um who
knows what other benefits i'm getting from better airway what a nutty thing you know and i can tell
you i had an actual sleep study in hospital you know because i was like what's going on and they
you know results were inconclusive like well you don't really have sleep apnea you have multiple
awakening awakenings throughout the night but they're iatrogenic we don't know what causes
them it's basically what they said i'm like duh i already knew that so um anyways that was my good
news i just wanted to share it with you because i think sleep is huge and you guys should really
check it out but just remember this was not cheap the whole process and i didn't get any discounts
i pay what you guys pay was 10 grand including the cairo including the surgery including the omt okay
so that is not cheap but it was also it's a lot of a big commitment on top of it i mean you're going
to be meeting with omt at least every other week for i'm going on six months now and that's been
very valuable don't get me wrong plus they're going to give you exercises to do and you have
to do them you do have to do them about 10 to 15 minutes a day-ish but i mean you have to be very
diligent and doing them it's hard to do some of them you have to do them from the mirror and stuff
so you really have to carve time in um so that's that um going to the cairo i go about once a week
i haven't been great lately um that's a little bit of a hassle um and then the surgery itself
you're gonna be out for a few days it's gonna be rough so all right hope that was helpful thanks