Posted by sunny10 on November 3, 2004, at 8:18:45
In reply to Re: TMJ BiPolar?, posted by ed_uk on November 3, 2004, at 8:03:47
I went to the chiropractor because I lost all range of movement in my neck. My neck was sore from the base of my skull to midway down my back. Driving to work is difficult when you can't look from side to side !
The first question my chiropractor asked me was did I suffer from depression "because you have the symptons of TMJ" - he is CONVINCED that they are linked, though who knows whether it is bipolar, unipolar with co-morbid anxiety, but definitely some kind of "depression"!
I put that together with the fact that my dentist had told me that I needed to switch to an extra soft toothbrush because I was cracking the enamel on my teeth from the jaw clenching...I just came OFF of Efexxor XR because it was damaging the my relationship- I had been on it since this past April.
My dentist has been warning me about my enamel for longer than that, so I cannot say in my case that the jaw clenching was "caused" by the meds.
I CAN definitely say that I noticed doing it more during the day, and finding it hard to stop, so the meds may have exaserbated the TMJ.Anyway, that's my experience,
sunny10
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