kat721

Hi yall,

I've been out looking for answers to my chronically spastic jaw that the maxillofacial surgeon said was not TMJ even though my jaw kept pushing over to the side and locking.
The maxillofacial surgeon suggested that I should be fitted for one of those mouth splints to the tune of 500.00 not covered by insurance.
Well, I haven't done that and in the mean time I went to the pain management doctor who did a better physical examination than the maxillofacial surgeon, the Physical Medicine Doctor or the Neurologist.
Her opinion is that I've got slight TMJ coupled with spastic muscles and that from the slight wear she could see, I've probably started gringing my teeth since this whole pain in the jaw mess has been going on since OCTOBER!!!!
So she suggested to go back on the low dose of Elavil for pain and to forget about the splint and go get one of those 30.00 mouth pieces they use for scuba regulators.
Brilliant idea.
It's was her opinion that 500.00 for a splint was financial torture and I didn't need the stress on top of my already tired of hurting mood.
She also prescrbed Lidocaine for me to squirt up my nose when I'm having a bout with pain.
And I was also given two antispasmodics.
So it's now a few days later and my jaw feels a whole lot better and I haven't even made it to the Dive shop yet. I'll probably do that this weekend.
So finally i am hopeful.
The pain doctor wants me to see the new neurologist because she has also decided that I have migraines with neurological symptoms and she doesn't really do headaches.
Anyone have any thoughts?
I would like to get some feed back so I might have some good questions to present to the new neurologist because I don't think that I communcated very well to the 1st Neurologist. My MRI mainly shows migraine activity.
kat