TPA & Speech Issues

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#1 Post by **sedona** » Wed Oct 12, 2005 10:09 pm

Hi -- I got my TPA installed last week.
It is driving me crazy.
I can not stand the way that my speech is affected.
Help!
Is there any hope?
Or do I just need to get used to it?
TIA!

#2 Post by **TuZZi** » Wed Oct 12, 2005 10:54 pm

I've had mine for a week and I still talk funny. Most of the time I talk completely normal, then BOOM it creeps up on me and I sound like a total idiot, slur my words, and spit profusely!! haha

Luckily I seem to make more of a deal over it.... the people I'm talking to rarely ever say or act differently when I flub up.

#3 Post by **LiveWire** » Thu Oct 13, 2005 10:12 am

Hey Sedona,

I just got a TPA last week and completely understand where you are coming from. But I have found that I have adjusted slightly over the course of the last week...but it does take time and I know I still whistle when I say F's and S's and some words I can't pronounce...

but it is a delicate art(?) to learn how to talk again but use your tongue differently

(be good now!) than before you had your appliance....

Lucyloop - yes I have the same problem - everything gets stuck at the roof of my mouth and in the little clips on either side of my front teeth where the little hooks are..

a royal pain in the butt!

Hope that you are doing better and adjust shortly.

Take care guys!