Hello there. Just wanted to introduce myself and say a little about my experience. 

I am a 45 year old woman living in London, UK.

I had allergies and sinus issues as a child causing me to mouth breath. My teeth came in crowded and I had 2 top and bottom extracted and braces around 14- 15 years of age. As a young. Adult my posture was always awful, I had headaches and neck aches daily. When I was 30 I was diagnosed with OSA. I wore a night splint for 3 years but this made my bite worse so went for surgery. On the nhs I got a septoplasy, hyoid suspension surgery and laserbon tongue and soft palate. This helped somewhat but I was still habitually bouthbreathing. 

I did some research and 5 years ago stumbled upon Mike Mew. I became his patient (his last adult one I think) and was given an ALF to get some expansion. I didn’t expand much- I’m still only 31 IMW, but he felt it was enough to start training my tongue to go up. I wore a night time training appliance for a year and consciously pushed and held my tongue up all day. This felt very uncomfortable and after more research realised I had tongue tie. I had a frenectomy and my tongue is finally up. So right now- I’m in a much better place. My headaches have gone, my posture improved, my face improved, my sleep much improved, my anxiety diminished. I just wanted to give people some hope that things do get better with proper tongue posture. Even if you have a small mouth. It will feel tight but you will get used to that. And even when I was going through all that misery, I still managed to live my life- have an excellent career, a child, a wonderful partner, a social life. And even with what I saw as a glaring deformity, I was still considered attractive . So it’s not all doom and gloom. I’m at the stage now where I’m looking at further treatment for tongue comfort. I’m seeing David cook in London. He’s trying to sell me AGGA which looks great but I can’t justify that expense when I’ve had so much work done already. So I’m looking at another round  of ALF.