I was playing basketball thursday night
and i got an elbow on the bottom of my jaw
upwards so it basically made my teeth
smash together. Afterwards my ears, jaw
and teeth all hurt and i bit down on my
tongue really bad, one side of it was
purple. Well its sunday and my jaw still
hurts, my teeth are fine none of them are
chipped and they dont hurt when i bite
down. I cant open my jaw all the way and
the left side of my face by my jaw bone is
swollen. i can eat fine unless im eating
something like requires me to open my
mouth a lot, like a spoon when im eating
cereal. Has anyone experienced this or
have an idea whats wrong. Will it get
better and it is just still hurting from
thursday or do you think it is something
serious
also i already had TMJ. MY jaw would
grind when i opened my mouth to eat an
apple or something. But this is totally
different know maybe its a worse case of
TMJ
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goosell
New User, Becoming EHEALTHy
Joined: 20 Apr 2008 Posts: 2
Posted: 04-21-08 02:20am
anyone??
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Tmddyan
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Posted: 04-22-08 15:17pm
sorry--im on vacation but im trying to get
to this
you probably really strained and bruised
the muscle--dont eat any thing that
requires a lot of chewing--treat it as you
would a sprained ankle--eat only a soft
diet and apply ice and take ibuprophen.
give it a good two weeks to heal and if it
doesnt let up get in to a good doctor
