Just glad to say that I can finally open my mouth and chew properly now. I've a bit of a dicky jaw anyway, and it has been stuck a couple of times, especially when I've been grinding my teeth in my sleep. Usually occurs in periods of stress but it always goes back to normal within a few days. Only gets embarrassing when I dribble food down my chin because I can't open my mouth wide enough to admit a spoon and whatever I've piled on top of it.
I've been stressing about jobs (of which I still have none in August), my impending assessment and my unfinished audit (the freaking#$%!). So plenty of teeth grinding at night made worse by a confused patient smacking me in the jaw a few days ago. Not hard enough to leave a mark but hard enough to leave me feeling dazed and for my jaw to start clicking. Then of course I thought of trying to see if I could fix it myself by stretching my jaw as wide as I could and poking and prodding at my temporo-mandibular joint. Of course I ended up making things worse. Where as before I had a teeth clearance of 4cm, I was now down to 2cm, plus a throbbing pain in my left jaw joint.
Still, all is well now, though I wouldn't go attempting a tough steak any time soon.
I've been stressing about jobs (of which I still have none in August), my impending assessment and my unfinished audit (the freaking#$%!). So plenty of teeth grinding at night made worse by a confused patient smacking me in the jaw a few days ago. Not hard enough to leave a mark but hard enough to leave me feeling dazed and for my jaw to start clicking. Then of course I thought of trying to see if I could fix it myself by stretching my jaw as wide as I could and poking and prodding at my temporo-mandibular joint. Of course I ended up making things worse. Where as before I had a teeth clearance of 4cm, I was now down to 2cm, plus a throbbing pain in my left jaw joint.
Still, all is well now, though I wouldn't go attempting a tough steak any time soon.
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