u/fuckedaroundandgota

Hi Everyone. I'm seeking your knowledge and input.

I want to get diastasis recti surgery, but I dont want synthetic surgical mesh. For me the risks seem too high.

I want a surgery where there is no mesh, or a dissolvable mesh. Does this exist? Does it work?

Im a 56m. I've had diastasis recti for at least 20 years. The DR goes from the bottom of my sternum (zyphoid process) to my belly button. At the sternum it starts at 2+ fingertips width and tapers down to about 1 fingertips width at my belly button. Also my rib cage has definitely flared up and out over time, as its not anchored in the center.

I'm a MAT Muscle Activation Techniques specialist, and I'm able to self treat the abdominal muscles. Meaning some of the abdominal muscles get inhibited: weak, low endurance, slow to contract, decreased ROM. For me the most problematic muscles are R upper tva, L lower tvs, R external obliques, R internal obliques, R&L sternalis, and R&L rectus abdominis 3rd & 4th division. They chronically get inhibited and need treatment 2-5 times per week.

I have a lot of back and neck pain. After I treat the inhibited abdominal muscles, the back/neck pain is diminished by 50% to 90%. And then slowly over the course of days, the muscle function decreases and the pain comes back.

I think I have realistic expectations. I dont expect the surgery to be a miracle cure. My hope is that the surgery will restore some integrity to the abdominal function, that the loss of function that I experience will slow down, and that I wont need to spend so much time on self treatment.

Thanks!

I am looking for a great Orthodontist, to correct my bite via Invasalign, or braces.

I live in Boston, but I will absolutely travel for a great Orthodontist.

Any recommendations?

My story.

I'm a 56m. My bite was badly damaged by orthodontics when I was 16. I had really big, prominnent top front teeth, with big gaps between my top front 6 teeth.

My orthodontist pulled in my top teeth, and didnt move my bottom teeth. At all. I had the normal tension pain/soreness in my upper teeth when I had braces put on, and tightened monthly. Never any pain/soreness in my bottom teeth. He put the bottoms on so he could charge for it, but never moved the teeth.

There was zero attention give to my bite.

This cause my jaw to become severely misaligned. My jaw had to retract to full end range just to get my mouth closed with a normal teeth touching position, and to chew with my molars.

Additionally, when the braces came off and I had a retainer, my upper teeth immedialty began shifting to the left. I was left with a bite that requires full jaw retraction and significant left displacement jist to chew.

This caused severe jaw pain and serious neck and upper back problems. I didn't realize the neck/back problems were jaw related until decades later

I've always known that I needed to get braces to correct my bite problem. I made many attempts to find an Orthodontist to help me including consultations with 5 Orthodontists. No one would/could help.

I finally have the bandwidth, time, and money to address this problem. And I'm determined to get it done.

The irony? I haven't had jaw pain in 20 years. I learned how to keep my jaw in a more relaxed position in spite of the misaligned bite. I will wrote another post on how I achieved this in a different post, if that's allowed in this sub.

My problem is my misaligned bite has caused arthritis in my neck and upper back. I believe that orthotic bite correction will at least help slow if not stop the rate of deterioration in my neck/back.

Thanks!