Yesterday was a bit better and today is much better thank you, but I can't believe my jaw is still sore. That must have been some major underlying tension...oi.
I know what you mean - I would do it in my sleep and wake up with a sore jaw. When I was really stressed I'd do it to the point I developed TMJ, which hurts like hell and needs prescription anti-inflamatories to get under control.
Wow, TMJ? That must suck. I've been suspected of having it, but never diagnosed, and it comes and goes so randomly anyhow. Meh. But anti-inflamatories? Just ick. Still happen to you?
Yeah - it was easy enough for my doctor to diagnose. He put a finger on either side of my head where your jaw is hinged and asked me to open my mouth. I nearly screamed it hurt so badly.
It flares up when I'm under a lot of stress and grinding my teeth at night in my sleep. Fortunately, I have anti-inflamatories for my knees, so that helps keep it under control as well.
Well, I hate to disappoint but there's nothing particularly interesting about it, nothing even really big in and of itself. It was just a lot of little things and a lot of family drama that finally just slowly built up and that was the overload.
Basically last straw was I felt my family was being hypocritical and disrespecting me - Yes, it was in a small way, but when they tried to laugh it off that wasn't winning any brownie points. Plus they only get offended if I try to say something (just to give you an idea they were actually irritated at me for being in a bad mood that day) and so I've learned it's best to just ignore it. I guess every now and again the pent up frustrations come out. Meh.
Some years ago I was suffering of horrible nightmares and every morning for about 3 months I woke up with blood on my hands because I kept my fists so closed that I hurt myself in my sleep. That was until I started cutting my nails so short that I couldn't really do it anymore. I don't have anymore nightmares but even now I cut my nails ludicrously short and sometimes I still wake up with my fists clenched shut and I know that that would be a very unpleasant day from the start. Hope you'll find soon some kind of remedy!
Yeah, I had one friend who'd wake himself up because he was punching the wall above the head of his bed. The odd things we do, ne?
I've heard of people scratching themselves in their sleep but not closing their fists so hard their nails broke though! That's tough. So how'd you go through a change that you don't have nightmares anymore?
I go through phases where I grind my teeth in my sleep but I've been good on that account lately, but I do it while awake so rarely anymore that it took me by surprise. Oh well.
actually I was waking up because It hurt like hell! Though I think it was just the first times that I broke trough the skin and then I kept scratching the crust of the first wound so that for months it wasn't able to heal.
I don't really know why I don't have so many nightmares anymore. they were triggered by the death of my grandma who lived with me, and they finished progressively when I moved in another city to study. I always thought that that was one of the main reasons why I can sleep better now even if now and then I still wake up with my hand sore though I can't recall what I dreamed when before the nightmares was so vivid that seemed real.
I liked to keep my nails long and painted, if you'd see my hands now you'll think I bite my nails!
Comments 19
Reply
And yes, today is better. Thanks.
Reply
Reply
Reply
Hope today goes better.
Reply
Reply
It flares up when I'm under a lot of stress and grinding my teeth at night in my sleep. Fortunately, I have anti-inflamatories for my knees, so that helps keep it under control as well.
Reply
Reply
Well, I hate to disappoint but there's nothing particularly interesting about it, nothing even really big in and of itself. It was just a lot of little things and a lot of family drama that finally just slowly built up and that was the overload.
Basically last straw was I felt my family was being hypocritical and disrespecting me - Yes, it was in a small way, but when they tried to laugh it off that wasn't winning any brownie points. Plus they only get offended if I try to say something (just to give you an idea they were actually irritated at me for being in a bad mood that day) and so I've learned it's best to just ignore it. I guess every now and again the pent up frustrations come out. Meh.
Reply
I don't have anymore nightmares but even now I cut my nails ludicrously short and sometimes I still wake up with my fists clenched shut and I know that that would be a very unpleasant day from the start.
Hope you'll find soon some kind of remedy!
Reply
I've heard of people scratching themselves in their sleep but not closing their fists so hard their nails broke though! That's tough. So how'd you go through a change that you don't have nightmares anymore?
I go through phases where I grind my teeth in my sleep but I've been good on that account lately, but I do it while awake so rarely anymore that it took me by surprise. Oh well.
Reply
Though I think it was just the first times that I broke trough the skin and then I kept scratching the crust of the first wound so that for months it wasn't able to heal.
I don't really know why I don't have so many nightmares anymore.
they were triggered by the death of my grandma who lived with me, and they finished progressively when I moved in another city to study.
I always thought that that was one of the main reasons why I can sleep better now even if now and then I still wake up with my hand sore though I can't recall what I dreamed when before the nightmares was so vivid that seemed real.
I liked to keep my nails long and painted, if you'd see my hands now you'll think I bite my nails!
Reply
Leave a comment