Debilitating Dental Pain: How to Cope?

I hope you feel better soon.

Hey Brain, I take a bunch of meds. It's so hard dentists aren't "experts" in TMJ except for splint therapy. I am actually going to Indiana and Kentucky in a few months to see 2 prominent Specialists in TMJ pain. I can tell you more if you'd like!

I have severe tooth, jaw, and face pain. It's undiagnosed as my dentist cannot find anything wrong, all I know is it flares when PEM is bad so I know it's ME related somehow. I do have TMJ as well, but it is mild and definitely not bad enough to cause this pain, just coexists with it.

Do you clench your teeth or grind them? I've had same pain, been to the GP, maxillofacial etc. I've recently started massaging my cheeks and jaw with oil and guasha and omg what a difference. Good luck x

I have this pain and was diagnosed with trigeminal neuralgia. I’m on a combination medication approach using Gabapen and Vimpat for it. It’s worked great. Also making my diet less inflammatory seems to have helped too - I already do no gluten but I also reduced the amount of dairy and red meat I eat.

I had that. Initially, the dentist found a small gap under my crown. So slight amount of air was making it under. He filled it. We should have stopped there. It was about 30% better. Knowing what i know now, it probably was 100% fixed but my overexcited nerves didnt know. We ended up replacing the crown. Now with no doubt that it was foxed. My body still vomplained bery skmilar for about 3 more months. Next occurrence (different tooth), the dentist didnt find any issue, so ignored it. Symptoms faded away in about 2 months. Nowadays if i have issues, i can tame most by using Peridex, antiseptic mouthwash. Sometimes that doesnt work.

Tmj usually a jaw split I was given jaw exercises because of underlying conditions, cut back on caffeine, eat softer food, no popcorn, don't chew gum. That's what I suggest from the packet I got for tmj.