Tmj and fibro

[Duke1]

Look up the symptoms of TMJ, you will find that they all sound like Fibro symptoms, they are now dealing with my TMJ problem by putting Botox in the muscles on each side of my jaw.

[Cally01]

Hey Duke1 😆 I take it your in USA? I can't find one specialist that knows what their doing with TMJD botox. Currently doing a treatment that helps 😆

[Duke1 in reply to Cally01]

I'm in Canada,I know the FDA has not approved it for the US but in Canada they allow it

[Cally01 in reply to Duke1]

I'm in Scotland 😆 TMJD is driving me insane. I've tried everything and found a botox doctor but she done it wrong, i couldn't smile at all for 3mths and it didn't help my pain 😣.

Currently have cerezen it has helped straighten my jaw but still getting aweful migraines/eye pain 😣

[Duke1 in reply to Cally01]

Wow from Scotland, my dad was born in Scotland!!! They do say if the needles are not placed in the right muscle that they won't work also if you don't get enough Botox that it won't work either. I have to go back and get more in injected it as it hasn't done anything as of yet,but I'm still hoping. They also can put Botox in the temporalis muscle's and a couple of more other places that they don't normally do, some just need all of the muscles injected to get rid of their pain .

[Cally01 in reply to Duke1]

Yup 😆 Glasgow. I've been through the mill, the incorrectly diagnosed migraine and I've had every tablet known to man, occipital nerve blocks twice, 33 injections of botox all over my skull twice, bought a tens machine, cefaly machine, took loads of vitamin combinations ... nothings worked. Magnesium citrate did help though 😆.

Yip you need loads of botox into the muscles. Have a look on utube, there's a video of docs doing botox for TMJD and they use loads 😆

[Cally01]

Looked at fibro symptoms and they don't match my symptoms for TMJD?

[Duke1 in reply to Cally01]

What are your symptoms for TM JD

[Cally01 in reply to Duke1]

I wake with terrible pain behind my eyes/back of my head ( just where my scull joins my neck ). My temples swell my face hurts ( just in front of my ear ) my jaw aches / neck hurts ,

I had a tmj athrosentisis but it didn't work, my jaws locked. No cartilage in my left jaw joint 😣

[Duke1 in reply to Cally01]

I have almost all of the same symptoms and I also have fibromyalgia,A lot of fibro people have TMJ problems also.

[Duke1 in reply to Duke1]

I hate that in front of my ears and on the sides it swells up and hurts for me to even wear my glasses

[Cally01 in reply to Duke1]

Yeah i have huge pressure if i put my glasses on. I have two friends with fibro, they mainly complain of tiredness / aching muscles and headaches but not migraine.

I use sumatriptan injections when migraines bad and it also seems to relax the tmj it's weird!!

[Duke1 in reply to Cally01]

It must be a good relaxer

[Cally01 in reply to Duke1]

It's for the migraine and eye pressure but it calms tmj down, they say it shouldn't, do now their looking at the ingredients 😆 hopefully find an answer for this bloody pain 😣😣

[Lisarose0111 in reply to Duke1]

Hi,

I have exactly the same issue, well had with the same symptoms. The doctor & dentist referred me back to one another for around 18 months.

I had an arthroscopy then Botox then eventually they done a full operation reconstructing some muscles & now I don't have any issues. Mind you I had to keep nagging & going back once/twice a week.

Hope that helps

[Cally01]

Take magnesium citrate Duke, it's a natural muscle relaxant. It helps at bedtime if you take it 1hr before bed 😆