I also experience a tight throat and often have trouble swallowing food and liquid. You are not alone!!!!

Morgan

Yes, I'm in agony with my TMJ. Tight throat, trouble swallowing, sore stomach, sore cheeks! At least I now know what's causing it...

oh yeah--quite common

Is my cracking jawbone TMJ or side effects of taking Boniva for my bone density?

Cracking jaw is probably TMJ not sure about the medication you are on. Make an appointment with your dentist and they will be able to find out. Make sure you go to a well respected dentist, the first dentist I went to completely missed it and also missed a lot of other issues with my teeth...

no its not a side effect of boniva---that is more than like ly tmd--make an appt with a jaw specialist-i can help you with that if you want help

I posted here awhile back, my symptoms seemed to be under control for quite awhile. The last two days I have not slept, eaten and am basically in panic mode at the moment. I went out to eat last night and barely started into my meal when i started choking on my saliva. My neck muscles are still really tight and my jaw is killing me. Th thing that worries me is this saliva and mucous just pooling in my throat making me feel lik I am going to stop breathing at any moment. Does anyone else have this problem? I don't know if it might be sinuses, acid reflux or just my TMJ. Help! Please!

I haven't actually been diagnosed with tmj by a doctor but i'm pretty sure thats whats going on, my dentist told me to get a mouth gaurd because i've been grinding my teeth alot at night=/ and i have all the syptoms of tmj to a 't' but anyway the throat issue has been my bigest problem, for about a month now on and off my throat will feel really tight of like its closing. some days not at all, and other days its alot worse, sometimes its like someones pressing on that part in between the collar bone. its fabulous, but ya i can relate to your description of the saliva, i sometimes feel like i cant swallow spit as well as food and it just causes me to panic haha, even though i know ill probably be just fine. i wish there was just a way to lessen the syptoms or something?

I was locked up in the pen for 2 years........ It was very stressful... I started having very bad acid reflux, and at times would wake up with bile in my lungs ... be it a small amount but hey that really sucks.... so i got put on rantidine, which if I took alot of this medication it helped...at the same time i felt like I got hit in the throat by a Mac truck.... It hurt really bad... then the next day it went away.... those people in there don't tell you crap so I was truely freaking out... my ears started having alot of built up pressure around them like i needed to pop them in an airplane... so it became an unsitefull habit me loudly poping first one side of my jaw then the other..... the pain in my throat subsided to pressure..... like kinda after or during a gd cry that you held back on for a long time.... well that all lasted about 6 months.... I really thought I was gonna die before I got out of the pen... But I'm still here.... Here is the current situation... MEDITATION, CONTROLED BREATHING, and PRAYER (oh hell did I say that in america?, I hope this server is located somewhere else....) lol but anyways... Now 1 year later..... I do the above when I can.... I remember it could be worse and I try to let things roll off my back.... try not to stress, and take my previcid, I still pop my JAW sometimes little pops sometimes big ones sometimes cracking, sometines grinding, my lower teeth are really small (from grinding them at night I assume), but I'm still alive, I've had a soft tissue x-ray to no avail, Ive had bloodwork, Now this is kinda a worry I had the Herpies seplex virus exposure 9 years ago but never had an outbreak... and recently a doctor friend said TMJ and the throat pain might be caused bya herpies reaction in my throat and also which could cause nerve damage causing the "feeling" that I need to pop my jaw when there is really no need to do it and all I'm really doing is slowly degenerating my cartalige and bone in my jaw, so I need to control it... But I've never had an outbreak and haven't had sex in 6 years... (which may be a major cause for stress,,.........but I don't know cause well I do the long term relationship thing and well when they don't work and sometimes when they do thats a hell of alot of stress in itself.... pluss I've found I can be selfreliant...lol) but anyways that freaked me out a little... so now untill I can get alot of money or good insurance, I'm gonna live or I'm gonna die... oh well.... I'm still alive right now and I'm not planning on giving up anytime soon!... At this point a year later I still have a slight ongoing pressure in my throat....(and try to ignore it)..... I still pop and crack my jaw, and my ears....(although I try not to)..... and if I don't take my previcid I still have bile in my throat when I sleep...... But I don't think andy longer it's gonna kill me, or any of ya'll..... we are in a very bad world, where bad stuff happens.... and it effects us in different ways... but see we are the ones smart enough to recognize theses things, and it in turn effects us, I'm sure each of us had had some kind of tramatic experience that has triggered these things to slowly begin tearing at us... and sometimes we can't even placeit on a single thing, sometimes it can't be resolved... but it comes down to stress.... the best advise is to take a breath....I hope you can smile... I hope you can live.... tomarrow is a new day... and it might not bethat bad! *smiles* May god be with you....

I saw that someone else posted that they got relief from this tight throat symptom by taking magnesium. Today I took a Calcium (1000mg)/Magnesium (500mg) supplument and another 4 hours later and finally got rid of that feeling I'm being choked! So glad I tried it thanks!!!

yes magnesium is a natural muscle relaxer---you should all try it. calcium is good just for overall bone health--we should be taking suplements like this. it does help

I have TMJ and along with neck and ear pain and tightness in my throat. I also get what fel like a very dry irritated throat. It's not sore, but more like the sensation when you first wake up in the morning and your throat is dry...

I have been under extreme sress which is when my TMJ flares up... and this throat thing came right along with it. Does anyone else experience this?

yes, im so scared , people keep telling me its anxiety, but im not feel anxious or anything and my throat feels very tight and i just start panicing and having anxiety attacks cause i dont know whats goin on

i get this too, its scary it feels so tight and i feel like i cant swallow or breathe, wat is this?