CASurfer
09-09-2005, 01:59 AM
Has anyone ever had jaw pain that mainly hurt at night?
How did you cure it?
(I have a cracked tooth, pulpitis, short molars from grinding, only chew on one side of my mouth, and do things that are really bad regarding posture of the head and jaw.......my pain is on one side, the same side as the cracked tooth)
ittal
09-09-2005, 03:23 AM
Has anyone ever had jaw pain that mainly hurt at night?
How did you cure it?
(I have a cracked tooth, pulpitis, short molars from grinding, only chew on one side of my mouth, and do things that are really bad regarding posture of the head and jaw.......my pain is on one side, the same side as the cracked tooth)
And you haven't gotten it fixed...? I'd be right in there!
I get jaw/cheek pain in the morning more often (sometimes in the evening, depending on the weather). Sinuses can cause sensitive teeth to hurt.
Maybe TMJ, but that generally hurts all the time.
CASurfer
09-09-2005, 11:55 AM
And you haven't gotten it fixed...?
The filling on top of my molar was cracked, so the dentist took off that filling and found alot of decay underneath and he drilled out alot of decay and then put a new filling on. This has not helped the jaw pain and one denist thinks I still have pulpitis, I am going to see my first endodontist ever in a couple of days.
I do lay on my couch and have a laptop on a stand next to the couch and I lean over and read and type for 3 hours a night in an awkward position, I am wondering if this could be a big factor in the jaw pain. It does feel like some nerve is involved due to the pain I get when an attack flares at night.
Shania4me
09-25-2005, 12:19 AM
I have had TMJ since I was 15 and its painful in the joint all the time. Mine is a tendon pain but some people can have the actual bone joint causing alot of pain. I would get it checked out though.
CASurfer
09-25-2005, 04:31 AM
It turned out to be the nerve in the tooth.
The tooth finally died a couple of days ago and the jaw pain at night went away.
It was a five month ordeal of not knowing whether it was trigeminal neuraligia, atypical nueralgia, strain from terrible posture at my computer, TMJ, a tumor, or the nerve in the tooth acting up. The stress gave me shingles.
What a drag.....now I have to get it pulled.
