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Hi,
I hope someone can help me.



When i was 14 i grazed off half my chin (on the right side of my face) in a bmx accident. The doctor my mum took me to ended up giving me stitches, even though he expressed concern he didnt want me to have any side effects. So at first he didn't want to do stitches but for some reason he did. So i must have lost about 6cm sqared of skin/flesh, as the doctor had to pull the graze together to stitch it. I have since learned you are not supposed to stitch a graze, especially as i wasn't losing much blood.



Now im 27 and have had this problem which has been driving me crazy. It feels like one side of my face is being pulled down, the same side as which i lost half my chin. It feels like the right side of my mouth is being distorted and is tense, and i used to get wierd twitches on the right side of my nose. I feel like I have not been able to relax for at least 7 years and have experienced bad eyesight and facial tension which began around the same time as I suffered the injury. My eyes do not relax and I always have strange tension in my right eye. I also suffer from dermatitis which mostly effects the right side of the face.

I discovered there could be a connection last year when i realised when i push up on my chin and that side of the face, my whole world relaxes and i feel like a weight has been taken off not just my face but it feels like my stomach relaxes too and i can breath better, as well as my eyestrain dissapearing. It also feels like my neck is too tight and if i pull the skin a bit i feel my adams apple relax a bit and it feels like i taste more oxygen.



I have seen at least 12 doctors and they tell me something different, but none see it as a problem.



So my question is, if you lose 6cm squared (approx) of skin and flesh on your chin, and your neck and chin are then stretched together to be sewn into place, and you are only 14 years old and have a lot more face/head/neck growing to do, is there ANY CHANCE AT ALL it could cause side effects in the future?



All the doctors and specialists here just say i need to go on antidepressants or get botox injections in my cheek or they say its all in my head (seriously when did every doctor become a new age hippy and bovine toxin pusher??)
Only one doctor out of 12 agreed that you are not supposed to stitch a graze, the others either confidently told me there was zero chance of side effects or just looked confused.

I got an MRI but it takes 9 months to see a neurologist here apparently so I'm worried it could get worse. No one takes me seriously and I'm scared because I do not like living with this feeling.

Any help or suggestions would be welcome... I'm competely on my own because my mum is sick and my family looking after her and no one really believes me because the doctors don't.


Also the skin around my neck seems pretty numb which i discovered last week. If i pinch it my hardest I will get a slight feeling... so im not sure if thats normal or not.