I think I have TMJ....

i am in fuckin agony

has anyone had this problem? i cant do anything w/ the left side of my mouth, i feel like two face.

pretty sure its cause i grind my teeth at night too much

shit i got this going on but it's pretty sporadic

wisdom teeth perhaps. it fucks me right up from time to time. whiskey helps. not gettin drunk, just to numb the affected area

my jaw doesn't lock up or anything but my jaw gets tight on occasion and the right hinge will crack, like a knuckle, except it's horribly loud since it's basically happening inside my ear. generally happens every week or two, but sometimes as often as daily if i'm stressed out.

onset after a root canal in a rear molar.

Ugh I suffer badly from this :( Sometimes I cant even open my mouth all the way cause my jaw's locked up. It constantly clicks and pops, and I have neck and headaches all the fucking time. Sick of it.

nah its not wisdom teeth, its definitely the joint-like i cant open my mouth wide at all and when i bite it kills... massaging the joint a little helps but daaam

i guess i should get a mouthguard

I tried one of them TMJ mouthguards you wear in yr sleep but it just made me drool everywhere.

I get this on the right side TMJ. Not nearly as bad as it used to be though. I used to wake up in the morning and my jaw would be locked, the only way to unlock it would be to punch myself in the jaw! I suppose it depends on how the problem starts - for me it was when I was 11, I was balancing along the top of a low wall, fell off, and landed face/jaw first on the concrete.
These days I can open my mouth without any problems, but any food that requires a lot of chewing, ie, salad, will cause the click-pop-aarrgh problem after about 15 minutes of chomping. Actually it got a lot better after I had my wisdom teeth out, not because of the teeth themselves, but because it was done under general anaesthetic, and they probably used a car jack to hold my jaw open or something, resulting in the joint loosening up a bit.

So the right side of my jaw really hurts, not so much when its open, but when I bite down. The really alarming thing is my right ear sounds like all strange (it's like the sound you get when your yawning - If I tap on my nose or bite down, I get a kind of hollow sound). I should probably get myself to an ENT, but today's a holiday, so.

Also, I think the problem may have been exacerbated by using a nasal rinse bottle. Could this be because there's water in my ears?

Thanks.

This is a likely cause of headaches, yes? Because I have headaches AND TMJ and I'm trying to eliminate variables without having to resort to keeping a fuckin' 'food journal' or some shit.

Also, I worry if I try one of those teeth plate thingies, I'm convinced I will be the first man to die in his sleep choking on one.