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Q: Dislocated Jaw For 6 Years - Anxiety rooted in TMJ joint
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trajedi
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when in fact i made the mistake of destroying myself in this life...I used to be put down for having a funny bite and my parents used to say to me jokingly someone needs to pop you in the mouth.....they were joking but i did not know what i did was dislocate my jaw at the time out of frustration with my bite..I just thought i was making it go in more...THinking back after doing this i was in fight or flight response for literally the past 6 years...Starting at 17 i was becoming almost delusional after this happened...I was nausiated all day I had palpatations in my head a severe migraine on the right side 24/7 i thought i just had anxiety issues...My bite was laterally misplaced but i didn't know it at the time...It did not align with the top part of my mouth...I felt like i was dying...I somehow got into a decent college and that is where i started taking prescriptions drugs to deal with the anxiety attacks...I know for a fact now my distorted thinking was caused by my dislocated jaw but at the time i had no clear reason with the 24/7 pain in my head with my jaw but subconsiously i thought they had to be related but how?..I just knew something was messed up in me i kept complaining of anxiety and 24 hour head pain...There was no clicking at all no cracking in my joint i never did any damage i thought i would have realized it wouldn't I?...Just 24/7 headaches but i had no idea where they came from..I started to take more and more drugs b/c the anxiety would not be calmed...I went from max dose of paxil to max dose of zoloft...I even had a bout of cocktails with benzos and even an anti-psychotic drug called risperdal...That is where i ultimately became impotent...My sex drive no longer worked but i didn't think it was the drugs as much as the pain and anxiety...I thought it was from the pain and thought i was going to die anyway but after reading about the drug i know it was from the drug...A year ago November 2006 to be precise just at the verge of suicide i figured out my problem was my bite from a website i was reading about how the top and bottom need to be alighned...I cracked it with all my force and heard a pop...Tons of blood rushed to the left side of my head and my arm went numb for a week...I used to have twitches in the fingers of that arm too from my jaw...My eyes became similiar in size but are still a little off...I cold turkeyed the drugs i was taking at the time never to go back on them again after taking them non stop for 3 and a half years...My psychiatrist couldn't believe it and i stopped going to one...I went to a surgeon after this thought my life was saved...He said he was going to do invasive surgery where he would correct my underbite after seeing mri showed degenerative arthritis on the top and bottom joints of the right side...I went to another surgeon said not to do it if there is not significant pain...I never got it done...What i do need done is to fix the significant pain on the right side of my face still it progressively has gotton worse and contstantly clicks and blood flow is messed up i can tell..But i don't want invasive sugery its bs...I feel like my whole right side of my body is in fight or flight again and there is tremendous pain all througout have IBS breathing problems and compression and pressure on the right side of my head...I am currently seeing an orthosurgeon who said if worse comes to worse i need arthroscopy...I feel like a living wreck right now...I missed out on pleasure just 24/7 pain for the past 6 years...And the drugs screwed up my sex life forever...i feel like there is no point of living now...The reason i am sharing this is to say i know for a fact that anxiety problems are rooted in the TMJ joint...It screws with emotions...Causes an over-excitation of the nerves that are in the joint...Probably causes adrenaline overload and over-taxes the body...All the neurotransmitters over-fire and in time the body just starts to lose it..just wish i knew this all before when i was 17...Now i am trying to heal but never heard of anyone having a dislocated jaw for so long...The worse part is the drugs causing the sexual dysfunction after discontinuance on top of the pain so i have terrible pain no sex life and am only 23.
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TMJWorld
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trajedi
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TMJWorld
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trajedi
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TMJWorld
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The disc can heal and it definately can be recaptured. I did this by having an arthrocentesis----they basically knock you out and drain the fluid(if need be) and do some pysical therapy on the jaw. a 24 hour splint is not necesary.sometimes splints make things worse and sometimes thery are helpful--I wouldnt go by what you can feel--it can be misleading.
I think you should seriously look into neuromuscular dentistry--i can find you a good one. and also a chiropractor. it will help
keep your chin up--dont let this kick you in the butt--kick it in the butt.
I think you should seriously look into neuromuscular dentistry--i can find you a good one. and also a chiropractor. it will help
keep your chin up--dont let this kick you in the butt--kick it in the butt.
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trajedi
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thanx for the speedy response...
arthrocentesis sounds like arthroscopy but i read arthroscopy is more invasive..i need mine manipulated so the disc just stays recaptured somehow...otherwise it is pointless...I was thinking of arthroscopy but i have read people getting their disc sewed in and having more problems so i don't know how this would work but maybe manipulating could work somehow.....If its off just a hair there is a lot of tension or muscular pain in my head and all throughout my body...At least the inflammation is gone but i rather have gotten rid of the main pain which is the root cause..chiropractor and neuromuscular dentist is probably the way to go...i'm assuming you have gone to one or both so one question i have is are they usually better than orthosurgeons in treating tmj b/c i am going to an orthosurgeon now and he doesn't do anything but waits till i snap my jaw in position and carves the splint...I don't see how anyone can help more than that but maybe im selling them out short...i think i do have fibromaygia from this crap...The jaw controls so much and i have involuntary movements in my left hands fingers once in a while and my left eyelid droops and when i snap my jaw in it goes away..Muscular pain all throughout too..
arthrocentesis sounds like arthroscopy but i read arthroscopy is more invasive..i need mine manipulated so the disc just stays recaptured somehow...otherwise it is pointless...I was thinking of arthroscopy but i have read people getting their disc sewed in and having more problems so i don't know how this would work but maybe manipulating could work somehow.....If its off just a hair there is a lot of tension or muscular pain in my head and all throughout my body...At least the inflammation is gone but i rather have gotten rid of the main pain which is the root cause..chiropractor and neuromuscular dentist is probably the way to go...i'm assuming you have gone to one or both so one question i have is are they usually better than orthosurgeons in treating tmj b/c i am going to an orthosurgeon now and he doesn't do anything but waits till i snap my jaw in position and carves the splint...I don't see how anyone can help more than that but maybe im selling them out short...i think i do have fibromaygia from this crap...The jaw controls so much and i have involuntary movements in my left hands fingers once in a while and my left eyelid droops and when i snap my jaw in it goes away..Muscular pain all throughout too..
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trajedi
Experienced User
okay here is the deal ever since i fixed the inflammatin problem the muscle problem is so much easier to feel and manipulate...I am pissed so much still tho b/c it is popping and cracking like crazy and then it gets jammed and i have bricks against my skull and body...I am seriously fed up with this crap if i have to live another year with a dislocated disc that is causing severe muscle pain against my whole body i am going to shoot myself..
I am so desperate for relief right now is there anything i can take that isn't a drug to relieve muscular pressure besides constantly snapping my jaw...the pain is literally 24/7 i don't get relief...My dad keeps telling me to do what they say in this book that he got me...and i keep complaining and he says he doesn't care about my pain then said he does but i know he doesn't..
Pain-Free-Revolutionary-Stopping-Chronic
But the thing is i think this book is a bunch of bull b/c i have a dislocated disc not just your ordinary tmj..
What do you recommend for muscular pains that are from the dislocated disc...It also causes breathing problems and i have no appetite b/c my stomach muscles are being contracted somehow due to the tmj joint...its uncontrollable i even try breathing exercises but its so hard when there is so much pressure against the head...
Is there a supplement that helps relieve muscle contraction and tightness or is the only way to fix it through surgery manipulation b/c i don't even care that its dislocated if there was no muscular pain but that is destroying me...I need things that probably increase cerebral blood flow too...Piracetam kind of works a little then gives out on me after more than 2 times use...
I am so desperate for relief right now is there anything i can take that isn't a drug to relieve muscular pressure besides constantly snapping my jaw...the pain is literally 24/7 i don't get relief...My dad keeps telling me to do what they say in this book that he got me...and i keep complaining and he says he doesn't care about my pain then said he does but i know he doesn't..
Pain-Free-Revolutionary-Stopping-Chronic
But the thing is i think this book is a bunch of bull b/c i have a dislocated disc not just your ordinary tmj..
What do you recommend for muscular pains that are from the dislocated disc...It also causes breathing problems and i have no appetite b/c my stomach muscles are being contracted somehow due to the tmj joint...its uncontrollable i even try breathing exercises but its so hard when there is so much pressure against the head...
Is there a supplement that helps relieve muscle contraction and tightness or is the only way to fix it through surgery manipulation b/c i don't even care that its dislocated if there was no muscular pain but that is destroying me...I need things that probably increase cerebral blood flow too...Piracetam kind of works a little then gives out on me after more than 2 times use...
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TMJWorld
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trajedi
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TMJWorld
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the machines are hooked up to a computer and any muscle that is stretched out stressed out or not in their proper place will show up. if there is anything amiss it will show up on the computer.
the msm and glucosamine(sp) is to help your body heal and regenerat tissue so yes it will help out.
nmd is the only thing that has ever helped me. I was lost till i found nmd.
yes a psuedo disc can develope from scar tissue and yes it works well. there are also other things like muscle grafts that work but that requires surgery and wed like to keep you all in one peice:)
if you need anything you feel free to pm me anytime.Im always here --well for 2 hours a day except saturday and i will do all i can to help you. keep me updated.
the msm and glucosamine(sp) is to help your body heal and regenerat tissue so yes it will help out.
nmd is the only thing that has ever helped me. I was lost till i found nmd.
yes a psuedo disc can develope from scar tissue and yes it works well. there are also other things like muscle grafts that work but that requires surgery and wed like to keep you all in one peice:)
if you need anything you feel free to pm me anytime.Im always here --well for 2 hours a day except saturday and i will do all i can to help you.
keep me updated.
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trajedi
Experienced User
right now it seems like my main problem is blood flow/compressed joint and nerves...I snap the joint in and there is pulsating on my right side...i am so close to fixing this completely after getting rid of the inflammation but it seems even when i recapture it there is still blood flow problems although less after the snap but that is what i really need to fix more than anything as that is the cause of the muscular pain througout 24/7 and i can tell that i have digestive problems b/c of this i am positive about it..This joint creates a cascading effect on the whole body and i have to go to school and do a bunch of work and i need to be pain free to do these things again...
My parents said i can go to the NMD specialist but now i am having doubts again...The only way to fix this is to get the blood flowing again and recapturing the disc otherwise the compression is gonna kill me...Can the NMD do that as a long term goal theoretically?
Last night i took ginko biloba with aspirin and i think i had some intestinal bleeding as i spit out some blood due to the blood thinning effect..I'll never combine them again...I just need the right side to get more blood flow tho i am dying from that...Isn't there a machine that i can get that can fix blood flow problems and help to repair the joint and i read NMD uses them to flush toxins...Also do heat compresses help for blood flow as well?
I am so damn close to getting my life back it feels like a few inches away but i guess thats all it takes to continually ruin me...
My parents said i can go to the NMD specialist but now i am having doubts again...The only way to fix this is to get the blood flowing again and recapturing the disc otherwise the compression is gonna kill me...Can the NMD do that as a long term goal theoretically?
Last night i took ginko biloba with aspirin and i think i had some intestinal bleeding as i spit out some blood due to the blood thinning effect..I'll never combine them again...I just need the right side to get more blood flow tho i am dying from that...Isn't there a machine that i can get that can fix blood flow problems and help to repair the joint and i read NMD uses them to flush toxins...Also do heat compresses help for blood flow as well?
I am so damn close to getting my life back it feels like a few inches away but i guess thats all it takes to continually ruin me...
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TMJWorld
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trajedi
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TMJWorld
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trajedi
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Should i sleep on my back?...I always sleep on my stomach and on the side of the dislocation but maybe i'm not helping it heal b/c of that...Also the night guard i have is pointless b/c i have tons of pressure that is only somewhat reduced when it is recaptured so should i still wear it as it seems to make no difference..
Can you provide any links that say mris are only 20% accurate? As my parents didn't believe me one time i told them this was a while ago as i saw the same thing before...
Also anti-inflammataries i don't think i need...The inflammation is gone basically 100% from msm and glucosimine which i take everday now that stuff is unreal...I just have lots and lots of pressure on the right side of my skull down to my neck and entire right side...My head slants my posture is messed up due to the assymetry of my face that degenerated and when i recapture it there is less of a deviation from the center of gravity (optimal position of my face before it was cracked) But it feels like there is a large tightening and it causes me fear as i don't notice it much then it causes a strange panic attack and then sometimes it will feel like a bulldozer against my skull when it goes a lot out of the recaptured position...It is weird bc the pain/pressure discomfort is 24/7 and sometimes i can not feel as much even when it is there but if i pay attention the pressure is never gone and is obstructing blood flow and sometimes i get shocks of blood and it feels like a knotted string was loosened to allow blood to flow again and it goes right back and is knoted again and that is usually rare usually when i run a lot or take a blood thinner and my jaw is in its recaptured position...If my jaw is just recaptured there is still that feeling so that alone is the fix.. I also hear snapping in my face that is super loud when it goes back in u can hear it from a mile away which is so scary... Sometimes i really think my problem is unfixable as my bite is so messed up its so rediculous and i had braces correlated to my dislocated bite when i was cracking my jaw...
My main concerns are cerebral blood flow, shallow breathing, digestion
They say there are people walking around with dislocated jaws and are fine but i think they just don't know what the problem is and were never diagnosed...Any displacement of the head throws the entire body off in posutre has cascading effects all over...
Can you provide any links that say mris are only 20% accurate? As my parents didn't believe me one time i told them this was a while ago as i saw the same thing before...
Also anti-inflammataries i don't think i need...The inflammation is gone basically 100% from msm and glucosimine which i take everday now that stuff is unreal...I just have lots and lots of pressure on the right side of my skull down to my neck and entire right side...My head slants my posture is messed up due to the assymetry of my face that degenerated and when i recapture it there is less of a deviation from the center of gravity (optimal position of my face before it was cracked) But it feels like there is a large tightening and it causes me fear as i don't notice it much then it causes a strange panic attack and then sometimes it will feel like a bulldozer against my skull when it goes a lot out of the recaptured position...It is weird bc the pain/pressure discomfort is 24/7 and sometimes i can not feel as much even when it is there but if i pay attention the pressure is never gone and is obstructing blood flow and sometimes i get shocks of blood and it feels like a knotted string was loosened to allow blood to flow again and it goes right back and is knoted again and that is usually rare usually when i run a lot or take a blood thinner and my jaw is in its recaptured position...If my jaw is just recaptured there is still that feeling so that alone is the fix.. I also hear snapping in my face that is super loud when it goes back in u can hear it from a mile away which is so scary... Sometimes i really think my problem is unfixable as my bite is so messed up its so rediculous and i had braces correlated to my dislocated bite when i was cracking my jaw...
My main concerns are cerebral blood flow, shallow breathing, digestion
They say there are people walking around with dislocated jaws and are fine but i think they just don't know what the problem is and were never diagnosed...Any displacement of the head throws the entire body off in posutre has cascading effects all over...
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TMJWorld
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trajedi
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