How long can TMJ pain Last?

Question

My sister has just been diagnosed with TMJ..How long can an outbreak so to speak last? She is not one for pain medicine so the doctor told her to take over the counter advil. Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

The pain can last for three weeks or three months. There's no set time of how long TMJ pain can last. Have your sister place hot towels on the joints for ten minutes. Rest for ten minutes, then take an ice cube wrapped in a paper towel and massage the joints. This will bring down the inflammation along with the medication.

Answer 2

I've had 9 years of daily pain chronic migraines and every tmj symptom going including my hands, I'm still waiting for these so called bursts so I can get a break

Answer 3

7 years ago I've been involved in a car wreck and even since suffered with severe on and off facial and jaw pain. I've tried almost everything western medicine had to offer and had visited countless of specialist, had done ct scans, and therapies but to no avail. The doctors I have been to had persisted that there wasn't anything wrong with me and that almost drove me crazy as I was going through hell from this condition. According to all my symptoms I was diagnosed by a holistic doctor as having TMJ and he had recommended this book to me. After following the recommendation in the book for several weeks, it had changed my life. I got immediate relief after following the unique set of exercises in the book and after 2 weeks the jaw and face pain had completely gone. I only wish I would have ordered this program years ago. It would have saved me a lot of pain and anguish.

Answer 4

sounds like TMJ problems, if you want to get rid of it yourself you can try having a soft diet temporarily and try to relax your jaw (no chewing gum for example), but ultimately since its showing signs besides just popping noises you might be better off getting it looked it.