my tmj started 5 years ago but i bought a splint which helped and considered my self cured but had braces and it all came back woreser than before the spasams were so strong its hard to decribe but iit felt like when i open my jaw it would only open an inch and felt like my jaw wantewd to close like 1 socondit would close than stop aNOTHER SECOND IT would close even more and it would go on like that intill my teeth met i coulnd stand the pain and put heat on one side of my face and try to strech it i think i streched it to far cause i felt this sharp slicing pain like a knife was slicing through the joint i dont get it the worst i read that could happen is your jaw could get stuck open from streching it to far i dindnt feel no pain entill i took the heat of im having some really bizzere symtoms like my eyes are bulging and went to shoot out of my head my jaw now feels loose my jaw joints feel like there melting i get snow blindness red pusy eyes my vision weven went funny all i could see was coluer things sometimes look like there boncing and spin im scared if all the joints breack off my face is going to look disfurged im sick to my stomech with worry the docters said it wont but i think i know whats going on with my jaw better than any docter im so fed up im bed riddan they wont even do a tommogram cat scan or mri im so angry at them and your dents for doing this when the pain came back i went crying to my dentist saiyng i wont the braces off my jaw joints are breaking down and he said he be the juge of that i had to beg him just to take them off i feel so frusted why is there no reserch down on this why isnt the only health problem next to fibro thats been neglected by science and atetion i cant cope ive tried to end my life twice i hate my life im so depressed its debilitating its hard to even walk with the slicing problem someoen please help me