u/unionofopensets

Hey, so I notice that every time I take a break from hot yoga for a few weeks, whether I am literally sick or going out of town, whatever, my skin looks so much better overall. and no, it is not that I am not washing my mat. I clean my mat very well after every class and I am not breaking out in acne or anything. It is more of a general ruddyness and texture thing.

like right now I have been recovering from surgery and I am cleared to go back to hot yoga, which I love, but I am sort of grieving that I will lose this state of my skin in exchange for the benefits I get from hot yoga.. I have seen it before and know this pattern and it is very real for me. It is this current cycle of stepping away though which has made me fully realize how real it is and make me wonder if it's even worth it.

thoughts?

I feel so stupid right now. I really hope I haven't done any irreversible damage.. I got 2 implants (19 and 20) 5 days ago now. both are on the same side so I thought maybe i could try eating harder things if i only did it on the other side and made sure it didn't disturb the implant sites. I honestly even 2 days ago started eating things like french fries, peanut butter. yesterday i had some pieces of a baguette.. today, I had another piece of the same baguette and it was chewyer and while i was chewing it, i felt a tinge of localized pain in my lower jaw under the implant site, so like basically where the implant is installed under the surface. I realized then that I was being super naive thinking that the surface of the sites inside my mouth is the only reason to not eat hard foods. Then I asked my AI about it and it honestly made me feel even more afraid that I have really possibly damaged the process in some way.. I am a bit mad that my surgeon didn't make this more clear to me..

does anyone have any experience with this? I am posting below what my AI said because I really don't have any other source of reliable information until I see my surgeon again at my post-op. I know I can call him beforehand, but I am hoping to not have to do that. Have I possible done serious damage if I feel that tinge of pain? It's now been 30 minutes or so since I felt the pain and that area has a dull sore feeling, but I am not super sure if it's just that I am being hyper aware of the area now.

here is what my AI said about it:

"Here's the key thing many people don't realize: forces transmitted through your jaw don't stay confined to where you're chewing. Your mandible (lower jaw) is a single connected bone, and biting forces flex and load the entire structure to some degree. Strong bites on one side still produce measurable strain in the bone on the other side.

Beyond that, several specific mechanisms make chewing harder foods risky right now:

Micromovement of the implants. This is the critical concept. If chewing forces — even transmitted through the jaw from the other side — cause the implants to move even microscopically in their bone sockets, it disrupts the new bone formation happening at the implant-bone interface. Micromovements above a certain threshold (estimated at ~50–150 microns by various studies) during early healing can prevent bone from successfully bonding to the implant. The result is fibrous encapsulation — instead of bone fusing to titanium, scar tissue forms around it. The implant feels stable initially but is not truly integrated and will fail when loaded with a crown.

Pressure on the graft material. If you had bone grafting, the graft particles are still consolidating and remodeling. Pressure transmitted through the bone or through the soft tissue covering the graft can compress or displace graft material before it's integrated, leading to graft volume loss or graft failure."

So that actually made me even more concerned. the whole thing about the fibrous encapsulation.. should I be very concerned about this? also, I am shocked that more people don't directly talk about this here or that my surgeon didn't tell me about anything like this.

Hey, I am learning the upright bass as an adult. It is the first instrument I have ever tried to learn. i've had it for 2 years and probably clocked somewhere between 35-55 hours on it so far, realistically. (this takes into account the 4 months of 45 minute lessons I had almost 2 years ago plus some number of 5-15 minute practice sessions during that time and since.). I say all this so that you know where I am coming from. I really enjoyed the lessons I took 2 years ago with Leah Hinchcliff (sp?) in NE Portland. She is awesome and it was worth every penny. If I lived over there, I would simple call her up and restart lessons with her, but I live in SE portland and I am a busy person so driving up to NE and back adds up and my afternoon is gone.

I kinda don't want to be super specific about where in SE I live, just for privacy reasons but hit me up or respond to this if you are a bass teacher.

My goals: to be able to jam with other people and someday be in a band. I can read music from singing in church as a kid and Leah taught me a bunch about music theory from the bass perspective too. I pretty much only do pizzicato, but open to learning some stuff with the bow. It is just not my main goal.

Thank you for your time!

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. has other pages about box shape patterns. I really like the learning style and want to locate the book so I can buy it to practice with. Thanks for your help.