I'm a 19 year old female who has been suffering from severe tmj symptoms that have been steadily getting worse.

All of this started when I got my wisdom teeth out last may. 4 days after I got my wisdom teeth out, this horrible pain happened in my ears and kept getting worse.

I was also having bad headaches,back pain, and all that jazz.


After I went away to college, the pain eased up a bit. I didn't have to take the pain medication I had been on for so long.......I felt great.


Then, the pain reared up again,only this time,worse than before. The pain is so bad that now it hurts to do anything. It hurts to chew it hurts to pretty much do about anything. My ears feel like they are always constantly blocked and the pain went from being bearable to unbearable now im at the excruciating level.
I have jaw pain all the time now. It feels like I have a sore thorat all the time too.
I've been on medicine to help control the pain, but nothing makes it bearable.


Currently, i'm on flexeril and naprosin. I went to the oral surgeon last week whos fitting me with an nti but I need results now.


I've tried exercising and eating softer food,but i'm starting to lose it.


I'm a 19 year old freshman in college and this pain has pretty much started to ruin my life. Every four hours on the dot no matter what im dong,if the pain goes away, it comes back.

Im really starting to lose it and can't take it anymore.


Please,can someone please please help me so I can

a: sleep
b: not have to take medication so much
c: live my life

i know tmj is partly from stress. The fact that I had to go away to college and go through that and having my grandmother have a stroke and fights with relatives probably aren't helping.