Got mah dental benefits card today, and right there at the top of the UNCOVERED SERVICES LIST ( Read more... )

Tuesday I went to a specialist to be fitted for an orthotic appliance. Or so I thought. No. I didn't. He asked the normal "where/when/how does it hurt" questions and prodded my mouth and temples until I winced. The muscles in my jaw are in a constant state of spasm, like a Charley horse, so that HURT, and it shouldn't. THEN he asked me AGAIN about ( Read more... )

SO, all weekend my face hurt, and I spend the majority of my time propped up on the couch with the heating pad wrapped around my head, trying to sleep while mildly stoned (and dry-mouthed, and heart-burned) from muscle relaxers. This is not nearly as fun as you might think. As in, it wasn't. At all. And it still hurts. My doctor's office is ( Read more... )

Pain pain pain pain pain pain. This morning, not so bad, but AS SOON as I go home from work BOOM, I am incapable of doing anything except whining ( Read more... )

Woke up at 4 am with horrible stabbing facepain! yaaaay. Spent most of the morning barely able to stand. FANTASTIC ( Read more... )

Spent most of the day nursing facepain. YAY. :| It was a only dull roar this morning, so I ignored it until about 2 when it became too much. Took an Ultram and tried to nap like normal, and...nothing. Took a Flexeril, and then I was stoned and still hurting. Took a 45-minute shower around 6 and it finally calmed down enough for me to eat a piece of ( Read more... )

The problem with having something minor like TMJ is that no one is willing to consider it a real problem.

Jaw. Pain. All. Day ( Read more... )