Pain in Jaw,cheek bones and around eyes

[Meg]

Hi Linda,

Good for your dentist , often its a struggle to get one made .

TMJ is fairly common with anxiety and can cause many of the symptoms we feel.

www.jawache.com

Always worth ruling it out.



Meg
www.overcominganxiety.co.uk
You cannot conquer fear until you have learned what it is you're afraid of. The enemy is ignorance. Vivian Vance

[bubbles]

Hi Meg,

Have had a look at the 'jawache' link, it looks useful.

Without wishing to sound melodramatic!--the night guard really helped me to 'turn things around'.
I was lucky, last Sept., to find the dentist I now go to, having had a succession of seemingly disinterested & incompetent dentists for some years! The guy I go to now is in to what he does, & interested in his patients.
Prior to finding him, I had had a year of extractions, tooth breakage, root fillings etc etc., all which seemed to go wrong whenever anything was done.
My 'bite' has always been poor, misaligned---& after the extractions etc my teeth were only meeting in one place, at the back! So the stress & teeth grinding got worse, each causing the other to get worse, all causing more dental damage! I was eating 'through a straw' & sleeping very badly, & in constant pain. And the dentist I had at the time said "it was all in my head"!!

I've had anxiety all my life (what my gran used to call highly strung!) but nothing I couldn't cope with----the 'dental year' tipped me into full scale panic, culminating in a major "all singing & dancing" panic attack last October.

The new guy made the night guard, & has started to work on putting right the previous bodge-ups & is trying to sort/improve my bite.
The guard has stopped the teeth clenching/grinding so I sleep better--so I feel less stressed--& the anxiety is back where it can be coped with most of the time.

The new guy also understands the panic & what had led to it. I don't actually have a phobia about dentists, just about incompetent ones!
Reckon the new guy is a fairly rare specimen.

Linda.

[delta]

Hi tt
I have suffered with this for years. I mentioned it to my dentist a few times and was just told I needed to relax (I even managed to break a tooth in my sleep from tooth grinding), I have a new dentist now and he has made me a nightguard and has referred me to the hospital to see a specialist, this is starting to help but I would definitely go and mention it to your dentist.
Well done for not panicking
Delta

[delta]

<b id="quote">quote:</b id="quote"><table border="0" id="quote"><tr id="quote"><td class="quote" id="quote">Hi Meg,

Have had a look at the 'jawache' link, it looks useful.

Without wishing to sound melodramatic!--the night guard really helped me to 'turn things around'.
I was lucky, last Sept., to find the dentist I now go to, having had a succession of seemingly disinterested & incompetent dentists for some years! The guy I go to now is in to what he does, & interested in his patients.
Prior to finding him, I had had a year of extractions, tooth breakage, root fillings etc etc., all which seemed to go wrong whenever anything was done.
My 'bite' has always been poor, misaligned---& after the extractions etc my teeth were only meeting in one place, at the back! So the stress & teeth grinding got worse, each causing the other to get worse, all causing more dental damage! I was eating 'through a straw' & sleeping very badly, & in constant pain. And the dentist I had at the time said "it was all in my head"!!

I've had anxiety all my life (what my gran used to call highly strung!) but nothing I couldn't cope with----the 'dental year' tipped me into full scale panic, culminating in a major "all singing & dancing" panic attack last October.

The new guy made the night guard, & has started to work on putting right the previous bodge-ups & is trying to sort/improve my bite.
The guard has stopped the teeth clenching/grinding so I sleep better--so I feel less stressed--& the anxiety is back where it can be coped with most of the time.



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Linda
I have also had a nightmare at the dentist. The tooth I broke about 6 years ago in my sleep was filled, this filling broke 3 times, all the time I was telling my dentist that I was grinding my teeth, he didn't do anything about this. Eventually I couldn't eat or drink because of the nerve pain, I had an abscess late last year swiftly followed by root canal, I can now see this ending in an extraction as I still can't chew on the root canal tooth, I am at my wits end with it, my teeth don't seem to match up and feel completly misaligned. I have been referred to the hospital and wear a nightguard. I'm glad to read you feel that you are finally getting somewhere, GOOD LUCK!

[bubbles]

Donna,

Sorry to hear that you too have suffered so much with your teeth & nightmare dentists.
I hope that you get some help & proper treatment at the hospital & don't have to wait too long for appointments. Is your nightguard helping?

I still have a long way to go but feel that my new dentist will do whatever can be done to improve things, feel I can trust him. He's also competent at what he does----& understands how ill the problem had made me before I went to him!

Good luck to you too--with your treatment, I hope things improve.
Let me know how you get on.

Linda.

Being defeated is often a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent.

[delta]

Hi Linda
I have no idea how long I will have to wait for my appointment, I have only had a letter to say I am 'on the waiting list' hopefully it won't be too many months.

The Nightguard has helped a little, I got to the point where I couldn't sleep for fear of doing more damage to my teeth, if I did sleep I would wake with my heart racing..... It has helped a lot reading this thread because I've imagined all sorts.
Donna

[bubbles]

Donna,

Pleased to hear that the nightguard has helped a bit. They take some getting used to?!
I know exactly what you mean about waking with such 'a start'. I was the same for a long while, waking every half-hour or so, everytime I 'nodded off ' & relaxed in to sleep--I would wake because my teeth banged together! Like you I was scared of more damage. In the end, like you say, one doesn't sleep at all!

I hope you are soon at the top of that waiting list!
Let me know how you get on.

Linda. x

Being defeated is often a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent.