Hi everyone this is my first time to post here. I sometimes have very excruciating pain in my jaw in my sleep. Not every night, but every few weeks or so, and its been going on for several years now. It’s weird to explain. I don’t wake up from it, it just seems like a bad dream to me, and I usually don’t remember that it happened until later that day or the next day sometimes. But when its happening it feels like my jaw is out of alignment and I am crushing my back teeth when I try to close it, and there is nothing I can do to stop it. Like I said, its very weird to describe because i’m asleep when its happening.

What I think is happening is this: I fall asleep on my side with my mouth open, my muscles get relaxed, gravity causes my jaw to become dislocated, and then I try to close my mouth while its dislocated. Then somehow I manage to get it relocated and I wake up in the morning and don’t feel any pain at all and don’t even remember that the whole thing happened until later.

So is this a common thing that happens to people? Is there anything I can do to stop it?

Also, I don’t know if this has any relevance to the condition, but I broke my jaw in a fight about 8 yrs ago.

I would appreciate it if any of you could let me know what’s going on.