10 days post op upper jaw surgery. Need encouragement.

[taylorjb]

My bite looks good for my open bite corrective surgery as well as underbite correction, but my muscles won’t settle down even with heavy rubber bands. I had an excellent surgeon team, but I’m still clenching down in my sleep. Midline is now on, but when I fully occlude it does hit some interference on a tooth & slide over a bit, but surgeon said that will be corrected with my braces in a few weeks. Obviously my jaw is banded shut which is very uncomfortable. How do I get the muscles to calm down? Prescription muscle relaxers aren’t even doing much. So far no joint pain, but that won’t be the case forever if I can’t get my jaw to relax. I’m pretty convinced they put my maxilla where it should be, but my muscles have been messed up for years due to my open bite & only making contact on my far back left molar. Nothing else could really touch until now. Need advice & encouragement.