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Do you have jaw pain, tension, or grind your teeth?

Do you have jaw pain, tension, or grind your teeth?

  • I have jaw pain and/or tension

    Votes: 96 64.0%

  • I grind my teeth

    Votes: 94 62.7%

  • Nope, I'm good!

    Votes: 12 8.0%
  • Total voters
    150
David

David

Co-Founder
Location
Naples, Florida
I've been going to a body worker who has been practicing his specialty for over 20 years and is probably the best I've been to. Today he literally put on some gloves, opened up my mouth, and worked on my jaw muscles. Holy crap was my right jaw muscle a mess.

He explained how the jaw muscles are incredibly important from the perspective that they're the starting point for various fascia and other connections that run through the chest all the way through the digestive system. And if it's out of whack, it can cause all sorts of issues.

I'm just curious how many here have jaw pain, tension, or grind their teeth.
 
Catherina

Catherina

Oh yes, very much so. grind my teets until I find pieces of my teeth in my mouth next morning. Managed to break two teeth this way. Also my front teeth are shorter due to this. I have some kind of rubber mouthpiece now to wear at night. Jaw pain and infection of the facial nerce. No pain medicine allowed besides pensaid. Doctors not sure whether it is from grinding or arthritis. Never thought this could be related to Crohn's though.
 
A

archie

Never had teeth problem although I did use to dream that my teeth had fallen out funny now since I'm in remission that has happened!!! Weird I did have bleeding gums during a bad flare but again all cleared up since remission
 
Jennifer

Jennifer

Adminstrator
Staff member
Location
SLO
I'm pretty sure I have bruxism http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmedhealth/PMH0002386/ as I wake in the morning sometimes with me grinding away and one time had a hard time opening my mouth and only shut it harder and harder (was during the waking stage, almost a sleep paralysis type situation) and I also grind them throughout the day. It can really mess up your teeth. I got one pulled not that long ago cause half of it was ground away causing an abscess.
 
CLynn

CLynn

Location
Missouri
I never knew how my ex-boyfriend always knew when I was yawning, even in his car at night. It's because my jaw makes a popping sound every time. That was in my 20's. It still does.
 
Dunbar

Dunbar

I was wearing my teeth down due to the grinding. Dentist put porcelain in the front, bottom four and that has worked wonders. I gave up the night guards after the second time I couldn't find it in the morning. Gone, not in bed or on floor or wrapped up in bedding, just gone. So it was either the dog or me who ate it, and I'm going with me cause the dog was gone when the second one disappeared. lol
 
Jam300

Jam300

I don't have pain (no doubt I have that to look forward to) but I do notice that my jaw is often clenched (generally I do this in an attempt to 'fold' my lips and make them look a bit smaller)
 
ctrl z

ctrl z

I don't grind or have pain but I'm a habitual jaw clincher. So much that my back bottom teeth have indentions on them from the top teeth. Now that I've been made aware of it, when I'm awake I make myself stop if I notice what I'm doing. I just got a mouth guard made for when I sleep because I wake up with my teeth clinching.
 
M

madferrit

I always clench my teeth when i sleep, when im angry :redface: but also to deal with the Crohn's pain when its at its worst. I do it that often you can see the imprints of my teeth in the side of my tongue.
My hypnotherapist said she could get my a mouthguard bu i would only end up biting down on that too so i have tk make a conscious effort to not do it- besides it makes me look like im angry when im not! :eek:
 
Jennifer

Jennifer

Adminstrator
Staff member
Location
SLO
madferrit it's very common to bite through the mouth guard eventually. Its one of those things that would need replacing. You can get one at a drug store but would have to keep replacing it or you can have one form fitted to your teeth that might last a little longer. Can't make yourself stop doing it while you're sleeping.
 
CrohnsChicago

CrohnsChicago

Super Moderator
its one of those things where I don't realize until i wake up that I had been clenching my jaw maybe the whole night. It doesn't hurt or anything but it is definitely noticeable. I think it is mostly during stressful periods of my life.

once in a while i notice while awake i am clenching my jaw as well.

I have never thought much of it before
 
Susan2

Susan2

I don't grind my teeth (dentist says not), but have always been told by masseurs and chiropractors that I carry tension in my jaw. My current chiropractor is a specialist in craniopathy and works and lectures throughout Australia in the field of TMJ (jaw), and head pain. As with David's body worker in the first post in this thread, if I am suffering from headaches, he literally puts on some gloves, opens up my mouth, and works on my jaw muscles.
 
Dunbar

Dunbar

GroverCat, a permanent mouth guard? What is it made from? Soft or hard? My Chiro says he can make them for me for a fraction of the cost of the Dentist. As he put it "I can spend 20 bucks and replace whenever I eat them" he is a funny guy. lol
 
GroverCat

GroverCat

haha- I haven't eaten one... YET. I don't have a chiro, so I didn't know about that as an option! I may be getting invisalign next year, which will negate my current mouth guard (hard plastic, and definitely not cheap!), so maybe I'll look into that for the next one. Thanks for the tip!
 
Dunbar

Dunbar

your welcome for the tip. Straight teeth, what a concept. Mine are so crowded that its taken three teeth removed (oh thank you crohns) and 15 years to get enough room to floss between the molars.
 
Brad P

Brad P

My wife says I grind my teeth i my sleep, and chatter them as well. My dentist says he sees signs of premature wear on my teeth from grinding. Otherwise I have perfect teeth. Is someone saying this is linked to IBD? even indirectly? I don't have any CD pain or issues when I grind my teeth, I have been doing pretty good for almost 3 years now but grind my teeth frequently. I am considerably stressed though.
 
ce1210

ce1210

I clench very badly, my dentist says I'm wearing my teeth down and wants me to use a night guard...I've had this problem since I can remember, long bf I was diagnosed with crohn's...
 
InstantCoffee

InstantCoffee

Used to grind my teeth in sleep as a kid, not sure if I still do.
A couple weeks ago I got really bad pain in the left side jaw muscles with no real reason to cause it. It hurts to yawn sometimes. It's definitely in the muscles, have no doubt.
 
monterey

monterey

I wake up with jaw pain and my face hurts too and it will give me massive headaches for days. I have to put ice on it and lay down. I took up doing jaw exercises someone told me about.online. They do seem to help when I am in that pain.
 
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