Hello everyone. I was diagnosed with TMJ around 2 years ago. The symptoms come and go depending on the weather and how my appetite is for chewy things.
Anyway, for the past couple of months, my upper and lower teeth on the left side of my mouth are not touching each other when I close my mouth. The right side upper and lower teeth DO touch each other with my mouth close. I CAN open mouth wide though.
My TMJ doctor says that my jaw is locked.
Not suprisingly, my left ear feels stuffed and I have tinnitus on that side also.
Does anyone else have similar jaw symptoms? What can be done to fix it?Can it be fixed?
I wear a splint on my lower teeth (which I get readjusted once in a while because it always ends up falling out of my mouth in the middle of the night!).
Thanks for all your help!
---I'm a vegetarian with TMJ. Enough said.
Before this blinding flare up I am having I was symptom free for 3 years, but if I would chew a piece of gum or eat something like a bagel.........woohoo, I would land myself in bed with a whopper of a headache for 2 days! I ate one m&m the other day out of my son's Easter basket and it set me back for the rest of that day. I think you have to be so disciplined with this thing. Good luck and keep up posted!
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