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Originally Posted by Bryanna
Hi Nick,
Well thanks for the acknowledgement 
You have hit it right on the head too.... your jaw is confused!! Exactly! The muscles are wondering what the heck you expect them to do with this thing.
I think you should choose a therapy ..... work with that for awhile... a few months .... and see if things improve. Depending on how things feel at that point, you can either continue with that therapy or move onto something else. It is going to take a long time to work this out and the last thing you want to do is confuse the muscles more or push them to work too hard. You are retraining them while they are in a fragile state. You have certain expectations that you want to achieve, like comfortable functionality while wearing the dentures, but it is going to take time and persistence.
Which one brings you more relief.... hot OR cold packs?
Bryanna |
Hi Bryanna, jaw tends to like hot packs however sometimes cold packs. Today not good as had stressful events yesterday so jaw muscles kicked in harder. Tinnitus went up, nevertheless am optomistic as I amd 99.9% certain I know whats going on , so I reckon treatment is as you suggested , plus stress mangement What can you tell by the preference for hot packs ? I had my ears microsuctioned in hospital 2 weeks ago . It was very painful as inflammed , jaw muscle clamped up then also. A week ago my doctor said still inflammed and been having ear drum flutter and a bit twitching in the jaw. could the inflammation fron the ear affect the TMJ ? Regards
Nick