Originally Posted by ********

doing what? the clicking and popping? Are you having pain or muscle spasms? Is your opening ability limited? Do eating crunchy, chewy or hard foods, like apples or steak bother your jaw? These are some signs that it may have progressed. Many people can have clicking and popping without any other symptoms. Like I said, get an early diagnosis, before these other things set in if they haven't already. I have been on a soft food diet for almost a year. No steak, apples, candy that is hard or chewy, no sub-sandwiches, no pork chops, no BIG MACS (my personal favorite). I cannot get my mouth open wide enough to eat one of those. The other night I ate a french fry that was slightly over cooked, a little crunchy, and it sent searing pain into my jaw and I whipped it out of my mouth like it had bit me. Do you have any other symptoms besides the clicking noise?
Amy