Is this tmj?

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Ever since I was a kid, my jaw would pop. I didn’t know that it wasn’t good to keep popping your jaw like that, so I would constantly open my mouth just to pop my jaw. I was also a really bad teeth grinder ever since I was little. I sometimes do but not as bad as when I was little. I would wake the entire house up with my grinding. My parents/grandparents would wake up at like 4AM bc I woke them up and they would wake me up to tell me to stop. I’ve even woke myself up by grinding before. But I don’t do it as much.

But back in January I had gotten sick w covid and I felt like my tooth was hurting. Like a toothache. So I tried to open my mouth to see if I was still able to open it bc I had pericoronitis on my wisdom tooth on the left side about a year ago and I was traumatized. I was worried I had another infection so I kept opening my jaw.

Well, ig I opened it wrong and did something because there was a SEARING pain that lasted for a few seconds. It hurt so bad, I thought I might have broke my jaw for a second. But it went away right as it happened.

My jaw usually clicks when I yawn but I’m not sure if that’s just a habit cuz I usually move my jaw to the side when I yawn.

My right jaw kind of makes this noise when I open it (idk how to explain it) but it doesn’t pop anymore. My left side of my jaw is the one that pops when I yawn.

Posted Jun 26, 2024, 2:58 AM UTC

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