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@fourof5zs It must be really hard. I am so sorry. It sounds like a bad case of TMJ. I don't know where you live, but myself and my daughter sees a dentist at Iowa City U and he is great! I know my son's jaw use to crack, but since we don't have any contact with him I don't know how his is doing. I have trouble chewing and the dentist at Iowa City said there was not too much they can do for it. He may take an x-ray to see if my right jaw has worn down. I have worn a night guard and it made the chewing problem worse. I hope you are better. Blessings, Jeanie
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@lilypaws .. most of the time there is no pain.. just when it catches and won't close. Sometimes I will get a bad headache and then I realize my jaws are out of alignment. When that happens I usually put my fingertips at the jaw joint and move my lower jaw around until I fill a pop and I check my bite and if it doesn't feel right I repeat until it does. Most of the time
I don't feel the alignment off.. I will have a headache much like a migraine. I just have to pay attention to how the headache is as to what is causing it. I tend to have migraine headaches and headaches from a bad neck. I also have Trigeminal neuralgia which can cause jaw pain... feels different than tmj.
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@fourof5zs @lilypaws I also thought TMJ immediately. When I was much younger, in my 20s, I used to have a problem where my jaw would "lock" for a day or two. I could barely open it enough to eat, I had to squish sandwiches down to get them in between my teeth. It happened off and on and eventually just disappeared! I still have no idea what the cause was so I am interested in finding that out if you do.
JK