| Re: Is This TMJ??? What Can It Be???
I haven't seen a dentist Maughan, but have considered it. I don't experience any pain, just constant clicking. I also thought mine might be caused by fluid because I sleep on my right side always, and at one time it actually only clicked when I sat up after lying down, but then there are times when it has clicked only when lying down. Everything I have tried to do to stop it has failed. Everything I thought might be causing it I've stopped and the clicking has only continued and gotten worse. The muscle spasm thing fits better than anything else I've been told. Unfortunately the solution is to have the muscle severed and that does scare me. Honestly, the clicking now is constant and deafening and is starting to feel like torture. I can't sleep, hear, concentrate, think, I go from getting angry to crying, it's just the worst thing I've ever experienced. It's constant noise that I can't get away from or even relief from, like someone screaming into my ear ALL THE TIME. It seems like the more I try to ignore it, the louder it gets. The muscle severing thing is my only hope I guess. Right now, it scares me more to think of ramming my head through a wall or an icepick into my ear, than having the surgery. That's how desperate I feel sometimes. I have to do something because this is driving me crazy. I sympathize with you and anyone experiencing anything like this, whether it's ringing, buzzing, whatever. People just don't realize how paralyzing something like this is until they have it----I know I didn't.
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