Hello everyone, and welcome to the new members! I have been consistently inconsistent with contributing to the Skool community. If you do have questions, please reach out. However, I will be much more involved moving forward now that I have started my FME journey. Almost three weeks ago, Dr. Jaffari installed my FME. I had a piezo cut, 10 TADs, and the FME 4.5 Pro 1A. I recorded the whole procedure, and it was much more intense than I was expecting. However, Dr. Jaffari was extremely caring and talented, completing the procedure in 37 minutes while explaining it to students of the craft.The pain was minimal, but I was very sore for about 3–4 days. The worst of it felt like a bad sinus infection. I was eating normally, talking fine (just with a small lisp), and taking it slow for a couple of days. All in all, it went smoothly. If anyone has any questions, please reach out. This journey is much bigger to me than only improving aesthetic, or even airway health. It’s also an internal journey to learn self-love. I find that many people in this space also share the habit of shaming themselves and wishing they looked different. That’s for another day, but I bring it up in hopes of always getting others to think about why they are doing this procedure. It was stressful on the body, to say the least, but I’m looking forward to better sleep and better health. I will be posting more and keeping them shorter so I don’t feel as discouraged about setting aside the time to post. So please ask any questions, as I left a lot of information out. These are progress pictures from two weeks of expansion. A small diastema is forming. I have completed 12 turns. No "pop" or improved nasal breathing at this point.

As I start to expand with my FME, I am paying closer attention to, and studying my face. For better or worse, this brings up a lot to think about. One area I want to talk about is possibly aiding expansion with the help of myofascial exercises. When I look back at old pictures, I notice my asymmetries were there but not as pronounced. That leads me to believe they could be related to two possible causes: either erosion of my condyles or muscle imbalances from poor habits. With that said, I will be doing massages and trigger point releases alongside my expansion, and I will post the exercises I am doing on this thread. I am also trying to incorporate as much sauna use as possible during this time, but that is completely experimental. You can also look some up if you are in a hurry as I know I can be slow. I mainly do them around my stretching protocol, which I will go into greater depth.

I am from Germany and watch the tiktok video that blew my mind. But I don't fully understand everything yet. I have an appointment with an orthopedic tomorrow but not sure if she understands me. I have lots of health issues since years like SIBO, dysregulated nervous system etc.

Please post any questions, or relevant information pertaining to nervous system healing in this thread for the community to discuss.