Will Ron Have a Double Jaw Surgery?

Cramped Tongue, Occipital Neuralgia and Chiari Malformation

A Pre-Jaw Surgery Experiment

I have decided to run an experiment to see if I myself am a candidate for double jaw surgery.

For the next several weeks, until October 1, I am going to mimic post-jaw surgery anatomy by sticking my tongue out as I go about my daily activities.

Michael Jordan often stuck out his tongue during play

If this results in a significant improvement of my headache symptoms, then I am going to commit to pursuing jaw surgery for the purpose of permanently giving me more tongue space.

You’re Having Headaches Again?

As many of my subscribers know, I have had a bad summer of headaches. The worst in many years.

Almost every other day for the past few months, I have been incapacitated with headache pain centered on the back of my neck that radiates to my eyes and temples, and causes lots of burping and indigestion. My symptoms jive with a diagnosis of occipital neuralgia.

Occipital neuralgia anatomy

And this has resulted in inconsistency of YouTube posting, as well as delaying the writing and publication of parts 5 and 6 of the JawHacks ebook.

Now that I have a wife, a 10 month old daughter, and another baby to be born in March, I simply cannot afford to be a slave to these headaches.

When I was living in a Sprinter, the pain sucked but at least the fallout was contained to me alone. However it’s not just about me anymore.

Headache Hypothesis

I have a working hypothesis that the reason I continue to get headaches is because of my tongue being cramped inside my mouth, like a folded accordion.

The posterior part of my tongue being kinked back is causing excessive pressure on the muscles at the back of my neck, causing those muscles to strain and impinge my lesser occipital nerves on both sides.