Please pray for me
Have TMJ and a day splint I wear. Just today, after, months and months of wearing the splint, started getting pain on both sides of jaw. Having it now. Scared. This is all very expensive to treat. I hope things are not getting worse. Tia
BlueKota
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FeelingBlue
(681 posts)Ibuprofen recommendation!!
XanaDUer2
(10,696 posts)Its like spasms. Just started today
ancianita
(36,110 posts)this sudden. Please. And be sure see another doctor for a second opinion. Seriously.
badhair77
(4,218 posts)and healing.
Permanut
(5,616 posts)Cattledog
(5,916 posts)After wearing the splint for only three days, Schmidt said, she was in "excruciating pain" and could no longer open her mouth far enough to eat solid food. Schmidt said she spent the next 17 years stuck on a "surgery carousel" with no escape, and eventually was in so much pain she abandoned her career as an aerospace scientist who worked alongside NASA astronauts.
Schmidt said her low point came in 2016. In an attempt to restore bone that had been cut away in prior surgeries, a surgeon implanted long screws into Schmidt's jaw that protruded downward out of her neck. Schmidt said she was instructed to tighten those screws with a screwdriver daily for about 20 days, lengthening the corners of her jaw to restore the bone that had been lost. It didn't work, Schmidt said, and she was left in more pain than ever.
"Every time you have a surgery, your pain gets worse," Schmidt said. "If I could go back in time and go talk to younger Lisa, I would say 'Run!'"
XanaDUer2
(10,696 posts)Alleviated the left-jaw popping.
LoisB
(7,212 posts)Hugs.
AltairIV
(387 posts)AnotherDreamWeaver
(2,852 posts)Prayers for a full recovery.
onecaliberal
(32,873 posts)Tanuki
(14,919 posts)niyad
(113,464 posts)Beacool
(30,250 posts)May the Lord bless you and protect now and always.
BumRushDaShow
(129,184 posts)https://kffhealthnews.org/news/article/health-202-tmj-disorders-jaw-pain-nih-funding-research/
Some additional $$$ has been thrown in for more research but they apparently still have "a way to go".
Sending those healing/calming thoughts to you!
TygrBright
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(1,826 posts)TBF
(32,071 posts)I have auto-immune issues and know how it goes w/flare ups. Hoping you will be able to have medical care and pain relief if needed.
barbtries
(28,805 posts)He treated TMJ disorders. It can be so, so painful. I hope it subsides soon for you. I wonder if acupuncture may be able to help; i don't know, but it has done wonders for my back.
marble falls
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