A little background: I'm 28 and remember a specific moment my jaw popped so hard i couldn't eat properly for a few days when I was around 23. Prior to that there had been slight clicking every so often but now the whole jaw pops out of the left socket when I open too wide. Compared to others I've seen in this sub I know I have it pretty good - Consciously eating smaller bites and being aware of my posture/clenched teeth has kept it from affecting my quality of life too much.
A few months ago I started feeling some pain under my left jaw where my tmjd is, but only when I touch it (most noticeable when I forget and then rest my chin on my left hand). It's a nerve tingling type of pain, and my dentist thought it was caused by my wisdom teeth. 4 teeth extractions later the pain is still there, so I'm pretty sure the tmjd is causing it. Does anyone else have this experience and have you tried anything to help it?
I'm getting Invisalign next month as I have pretty misaligned teeth that was never corrected. Hoping it will help a bit.
3 weeks post-op. I have a strained left side marginal mandibular nerve injury. Whenever I smile the left side stays up and my smile is crooked ): will this resolve? How long? Is it permanent?
If a person having bruxism regularly uses a mouth guard, is there any possibility of slight temporal mandibular joint remodeling? Perhaps enough to impinge upon the nerve pathways?
Hey there everyone. So I am trying to figure out if I have trigeminal neuralgia. I have several reasons to think it is TA, but also several reasons to think it could be actual tissue damage. Or perhaps even a mixture of both of them. I have an upcoming appointment with a neurologist in a month.
This is going to be a novel so please please forgive me for the rather long read. I do apologise that I am very long-winded and thorough. Again I apologise.
Also for what it is worth, upon my reading, it seems that the trigeminal nerve originates at the temple points, and has the following 3 nerve branches the start from that temple point.
The first branch
- Opthalamic Branch - This branch seems to extend into the eye and eyelid area. Luckily I have no symptoms related in such an area.
The second branch
- Maxillary Branch - Which seems to extend into the upper/mid cheek cheek area, to the lips and nose and stuff around that area.
The third branch
- The Mandibular Branch - Which seems to extend along the mandible and lower lip area.
Now that I have outlined that for context later, I would like to share with all of you brave people what happened with me. (and regardless if I truly have this or not, I am going to start donating to it, because reading about it has really tugged on my heartstrings for many people who do indeed suffer from it and I am sorry if you are going through it).
So about two months ago, I was shaving. I struggle getting a close shave, and read online that pulling the skin taut can result in a smoother shave. So, I tried this, probably in the dumbest way possible.
I grapsed my skin by each temple (the left temple and the right temple), and pulled vertically upwards. My grasp and strength of pull was hard to say the least. I held on with my hand to keep the skin up and stretched as I shaved. HUGE mistake.
Upon letting go, and releasing the pressure and grasping, I felt some deep deep pain on my left temple. Mild pain in my right temple, and deep pain in my left cheekbone area (which is not even where I grapsed from, but of course the left cheek bone is among the area of the maxillary branch)
Also, upon letting go, I literally saw my left cheek droop lower than I had ever seen it droop (fell by like half to a full centimeter), and also even saw a depression to the left of my left cheekbone. This depression lay right above my newly descended cheek skin/fat. Like the fat and tissue had USED to be there, but now that it des
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Setting by u/BlueFishcake
“Mr. McClendon, please stop.”
“No.”
“I have your breakfast right here! Won’t you please just lay down and eat?”
“I’m not hungry. Where are my clothes?”
The nurse threw up her hands. “In the garbage! They were cut off of your body, Mr. McClendon! And they were torn to shreds before that!”
“Fine, I’ll make a toga.”
The nurse leapt forward as Levi moved to strip the sheet off of the hospital bed. “Mr. McClendon, stop! You’re going to hurt yourself!”
“I’ll be fine.” He tried, and failed, to suppress a pained grunt when the sheet didn’t come away from the bed as easily as he had expected it to.
“Young man, I will call your mother!”
“Please do.” Levi tried to step around the nurse, resulting in a kind of shuffling dance as she stayed between him and the bed. “Let her know that I intend to spend as little time as possible anywhere near THAT BITCH!” He glared at the wall in the direction of the room at the far end of the ward.
“Mr. McClendon, please! There are people still sleeping!”
Levi’s cheeks flushed and he hung his head. “...sorry.”
The nurse sighed. “Mr. McClendon, I understand your frustration. And, again, I’m very sorry about last night. But you saw for yourself that she can’t hurt you.” The nurse paused with a thoughtful frown. “Well, maybe she could kick you, if you go lean over her bed, but nonetheless, she is in no condition to make a nuisance of herself.”
Levi glared at the floor.
“Now, would you please take your medication and lie back down? At least eat your breakfast!”
“I can eat standing up.” Levi growled as he shuffled carefully towards the table.
The nurse rolled her eyes. “And your meds?”
“I’m fine.” He winced as he picked up the plate of scrambled eggs and started shoveling them into his mouth.
“You’re not fine, you’re in pain! I can see it! Your breathing is shallow, you’re stiff, and you’re wincing every time you move when you think I’m not looking!”
Levi paused his inhalation of the food briefly to look over at the nurse, gritting his teeth as the numerous scabs and bruises on his neck shrieked in protest. What started as an attempt to star
... keep reading on reddit ➡I don't want to step on anybody's toes here, but the amount of non-dad jokes here in this subreddit really annoys me. First of all, dad jokes CAN be NSFW, it clearly says so in the sub rules. Secondly, it doesn't automatically make it a dad joke if it's from a conversation between you and your child. Most importantly, the jokes that your CHILDREN tell YOU are not dad jokes. The point of a dad joke is that it's so cheesy only a dad who's trying to be funny would make such a joke. That's it. They are stupid plays on words, lame puns and so on. There has to be a clever pun or wordplay for it to be considered a dad joke.
Again, to all the fellow dads, I apologise if I'm sounding too harsh. But I just needed to get it off my chest.
The nurse asked the rabbit, “what is your blood type?”
“I am probably a type O” said the rabbit.
The doctor says it terminal.
Alot of great jokes get posted here! However just because you have a joke, doesn't mean it's a dad joke.
THIS IS NOT ABOUT NSFW, THIS IS ABOUT LONG JOKES, BLONDE JOKES, SEXUAL JOKES, KNOCK KNOCK JOKES, POLITICAL JOKES, ETC BEING POSTED IN A DAD JOKE SUB
Try telling these sexual jokes that get posted here, to your kid and see how your spouse likes it.. if that goes well, Try telling one of your friends kid about your sex life being like Coca cola, first it was normal, than light and now zero , and see if the parents are OK with you telling their kid the "dad joke"
I'm not even referencing the NSFW, I'm saying Dad jokes are corny, and sometimes painful, not sexual
So check out r/jokes for all types of jokes
r/unclejokes for dirty jokes
r/3amjokes for real weird and alot of OC
r/cleandadjokes If your really sick of seeing not dad jokes in r/dadjokes
Punchline !
Edit: this is not a post about NSFW , This is about jokes, knock knock jokes, blonde jokes, political jokes etc being posted in a dad joke sub
Edit 2: don't touch the thermostat
12/21/21
Hematologic disorder VS Rheumatological disease VS Neurological problem????
Patient: 68y/o Caucasian American heterosexul male in monogamous relationship for 45+ years. NKA. No diabetes.
Current medications: Allopurinol 300mg, Amlodipine 10mg, Atenolol 100mg, Atorvastatin 20mg, Cholecalciferol 125mcg, Clopidogrel 75mg, Prednisone 7.5, Tamulosin 0.4, Trazodone 50mg PRN
PMH: Hypertension, Hyperlipidemia, Gout, Neuropathy, CVA with no residual deficits (2012).
Slight Thrombocytopenia since Nov 2020 (plt count ranges btn 120-130) Smoked 40 pack years, quit 20 years ago. Two glasses of red wine nightly, occasional recreational marijuana, no illicit drug use. Worked manual labor many years, then worked as a project manager
Family hx: Mother and father both deceased (both close to the age of 90 at time of death), cause of death Altzheimers disease and Dementia respectively, sister had breast Ca
COVID STATUS: Has not tested positive for COVID, though very ill Feb 2020. Received first 2 doses of vaccine in March and April, (Pfizer), instructed to wait on booster by rheumatologist.
Timeline of significant events and pertinent lab values:
October 2018: Pt. believed that he was having a stroke as "chin went numb". No other sx at that time, a few days later exhibited significant pain at that site. Physicians seen at that time included PCP, dentist, oral maxillofacial surgeon, and hematologist, ENT, neurologist. Extensive workup inconclusive. Tests performed at that time included:Brain MRI, facial CT, CXR, CT abdomen/pelvis, mammogram, breast US, bone scan, PET scan, all appropriate labs ordered, never had BmBx as hematologist was convinced (based on labs, imaging, and sx) that pt. did not have hematologic disorder. Orbit MRI showed "non expansible marrow abnormality in posterior body and angle of R side of mandible. Abnormal enhancement of R inferior alveolar nerve as it extends in the mandibular canal through this region and in the R mental nerve as it emerges from mental foramen" "Findings could represent marrow inflammation from nonvisualized dental dx with associated neuritis. Alternatively, they could represent an infiltrative neoplastic lesion such as lymphoma or myeloma w/ associated infiltration along the nerve". To this day chin is still numb.
Lab values at that time: Kappa/Lambda ratio 1.57, Protein electrophoresis (IMM)= No M spike, however hypoalbuminemia present. Beta 2 microglobulin=2.87
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How the hell am I suppose to know when it’s raining in Sweden?
We told her she can lean on us for support. Although, we are going to have to change her driver's license, her height is going down by a foot. I don't want to go too far out on a limb here but it better not be a hack job.
Ants don’t even have the concept fathers, let alone a good dad joke. Keep r/ants out of my r/dadjokes.
But no, seriously. I understand rule 7 is great to have intelligent discussion, but sometimes it feels like 1 in 10 posts here is someone getting upset about the jokes on this sub. Let the mods deal with it, they regulate the sub.
I'm surprised it hasn't decade.
They were cooked in Greece.
He lost May
Now that I listen to albums, I hardly ever leave the house.
Don't you know a good pun is its own reword?
Two muffins are in an oven, one muffin looks at the other and says "is it just me, or is it hot in here?"
Then the other muffin says "AHH, TALKING MUFFIN!!!"
For context I'm a Refuse Driver (Garbage man) & today I was on food waste. After I'd tipped I was checking the wagon for any defects when I spotted a lone pea balanced on the lifts.
I said "hey look, an escaPEA"
No one near me but it didn't half make me laugh for a good hour or so!
Edit: I can't believe how much this has blown up. Thank you everyone I've had a blast reading through the replies 😂
Said if she ever hosts a gender reveal party, when it comes time to pop the balloon she'll spray everyone with water.
Gender is fluid.
It really does, I swear!
And now I’m cannelloni
Because she wanted to see the task manager.
Edit: final total for yesterday was 339.
TL;DR: 241 nerve attacks today and counting. Have done all the treatment steps including MVD last year and it's gotten this bad again. FML.
I've never actually counted them before. I usually try to distract myself and not pay attention to the extent that that's possible. Today I have been wholly present to the pain, and I'm a mess.
This is way more attacks than I ever estimated. I've previously guessed I'd have maybe 50 attacks on a bad day. To be fair, I'm both sleep-deprived and have PMS at the moment; both are big TN triggers for me. So it's been an unusually bad day. But still... 241! And the day isn't done yet. Also, while it's up there, this isn't the worst day I've ever had.
Each time I get a series of zaps in the same place, I count it. Could be one shock, could be 20 - that's one "attack". If I have zaps going simultaneously in totally different spots, such as ear and upper lip, with no pain traveling between them (the way it sort of runs through the nerves like lightning, hard to describe), I count that as two attacks.
The attacks have ranged in intensity from 2 to 9 (on the 1-10 pain scale). Most are 4-6.
I had MVD surgery last November. That reduced the attacks in my face area maybe 50%, but in the last month it's getting worse again. More recently I've had two nerve blocks of the mandibular branch of the trigeminal nerve where it exits the foramen ovale. The first, a diagnostic block and purposeless short-acting, helped a ton (zero pain for ten whole hours!). The second one last week helped much less even though it was the same med in the same spot. It was supposed to help more and for longer because the steroid injected with the numbing medicine should reduce chronic inflammation.
I have several benign nerve sheath tumors in and around my left ear, the same side as my TN, so it's impossible to know which attacks are because of TN and which ones are from the neurofibromas. They feel exactly the same. It really complicates things. The tumors I initially had removed for biopsy grew back. These kinds of tumors often do, and combined with the tricky location, it means removing the tumors isn't likely to be a helpful option.
I'm on as much Tegretol and Gabapentin as I can tolerate before the side effects get intolerable. (Fairly low doses - 1200 mg Gabapentin and 100 mg Tegretol.) I'm on a bunch of other meds for unrelated stuff and they all interact making med management a challenge. We've tried ot
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And boy are my arms legs.
Amy
Put it on my bill
Heard they've been doing some shady business.
but then I remembered it was ground this morning.
Edit: Thank you guys for the awards, they're much nicer than the cardboard sleeve I've been using and reassures me that my jokes aren't stale
Edit 2: I have already been made aware that Men In Black 3 has told a version of this joke before. If the joke is not new to you, please enjoy any of the single origin puns in the comments
Setting by u/BlueFishcake
“Mr. McClendon, please stop.”
“No.”
“I have your breakfast right here! Won’t you please just lay down and eat?”
“I’m not hungry. Where are my clothes?”
The nurse threw up her hands. “In the garbage! They were cut off of your body, Mr. McClendon! And they were torn to shreds before that!”
“Fine, I’ll make a toga.”
The nurse leapt forward as Levi moved to strip the sheet off of the hospital bed. “Mr. McClendon, stop! You’re going to hurt yourself!”
“I’ll be fine.” He tried, and failed, to suppress a pained grunt when the sheet didn’t come away from the bed as easily as he had expected it to.
“Young man, I will call your mother!”
“Please do.” Levi tried to step around the nurse, resulting in a kind of shuffling dance as she stayed between him and the bed. “Let her know that I intend to spend as little time as possible anywhere near THAT BITCH!” He glared at the wall in the direction of the room at the far end of the ward.
“Mr. McClendon, please! There are people still sleeping!”
Levi’s cheeks flushed and he hung his head. “...sorry.”
The nurse sighed. “Mr. McClendon, I understand your frustration. And, again, I’m very sorry about last night. But you saw for yourself that she can’t hurt you.” The nurse paused with a thoughtful frown. “Well, maybe she could kick you, if you go lean over her bed, but nonetheless, she is in no condition to make a nuisance of herself.”
Levi glared at the floor.
“Now, would you please take your medication and lie back down? At least eat your breakfast!”
“I can eat standing up.” Levi growled as he shuffled carefully towards the table.
The nurse rolled her eyes. “And your meds?”
“I’m fine.” He winced as he picked up the plate of scrambled eggs and started shoveling them into his mouth.
“You’re not fine, you’re in pain! I can see it! Your breathing is shallow, you’re stiff, and you’re wincing every time you move when you think I’m not looking!”
Levi paused his inhalation of the food briefly to look over at the nurse, gritting his teeth as the numerous scabs and bruises on his neck shrieked in protest. What started as an attempt to stare h
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