#when most of my physical issues are undiagnosed + untreated so i have no IDEA what is happening to my body or how i could be making itworse

[patronsaintoffinalgirls]

at least i start my job on tuesday so ... idk. should i be glad? because that wore off fast and now im just more afraid than ever.

i am very, very afraid of my body right now, that it won't be able to function as needed to survive.

[fasterthanmydemons]

Does his ADHD ever pose a threat to whatever mission he is in? Assuming it remained undiagnosed and therefore untreated!!

{out of breath} I know this is not Pietro's scheduled day, but I'm going to be going on hiatus next week as well as changing up my rp schedule, so rather than have this sit in my inbox for two weeks, I'll just answer it now. =)

I actually would think that his ADHD would be diagnosed and treated once he becomes an Avenger after he recovers from his wounds from AoU. He would have to get evaluated by a psychologist in order to be able to be in the field, so I think he would have to be diagnosed and treated for any outstanding physical or mental issues.

Unless... he refuses to be seen by a psychologist and/or is able to hide his symptoms well enough that he is not diagnosed. So in that kind of situation where he hides it or just outright refuses to be evaluated, he wouldn't be able to be an Avenger, at least not in a field work sense.

However, for the sake of argument and because it's an interesting question, let's say he did go undiagnosed for his ADHD but was still permitted to be involved in field missions. Yes, it would affect his performance and could place himself or others at significant risk. His impulsiveness could result in him not following orders or spontaneously deciding to do deviate from whatever plan Steve and/or Natasha had laid out. Because he's young and inexperienced, this deviation might not be the most well thought-out or practical thing to do, which could then end up getting him hurt or others as they try to help him or undo what he just did.

Conversely, aside from doing things he's not supposed to do, he might also not do things he is supposed to do. With his ADHD, he doesn't just experience moments of being frenetically unable to focus and bouncing from one idea to the next without finishing them, but he also can suddenly freeze or become indecisive, causing him to miss opportunities or timing on things he was supposed to be involved in. If he has ten ideas and can't decide on which one to go with, he might freeze up and not pick any of them in time for it to matter.

So it's not just about him going off on his own or deciding to take action when he's not authorized to do so, but it's also about him not being able to take action when he needs to. And some of that would be due to ADHD symptoms, but some might also just be his own mental trauma and how that plays into his real-time decision-making skills, especially at times when combat may be happening around him. I think for Pietro's sake and the sake of the Avengers team, he really does need to be treated for his symptoms, whether that occurs through therapy, medication, or a combination of both.

[bearbaitmegs]

I know I don’t have a lot of active followers here, but I’ve been going though some major changes in my life recently (both good and/or disorienting), and one of the things I am aiming to achieve with that is to reestablish myself online in some small way. Just casually, socially. I used to enjoy interacting and making friends online and some of my oldest friends remain people that I met through the web.

I hope these sporadic personal posts don’t bother you.

I think part of these changes that I’m aspiring to involve getting into the habit of simply posting more. I honestly am unsure of where to migrate to online outside of Tumblr. I’ve ditched Facebook except to check on businesses I’m planning on visiting and occasionally to sell something. I’m only on Snapchat and Instagram to follow one person. I haven’t logged into DeviantArt in almost 10 years. Yahoo 360 is long gone. Adjusting to Discord has been a slow and lurking process because it reminds me of some particularly haunting memories and it lacks most topics I’d be interested in (publicly, at least). Twitter never fit right. I refuse to engage with people on Ao3 or ffn because I’m very hesitant to engage with people who has the same media interests as I do because I’ve had far too much fandom-related trauma and drama and I still have trouble forming friend groups despite 9 years of distance

My brother has an undiagnosed and untreated personality disorder and it has often felt like his drama has been my defining feature for almost 2 years. I have gotten tired of carrying his monkey into all of my relationships and conversations, especially when trying to make new ones. I wish I had custody of my nephew because he and his ex are both sucky and neglectful, but all I can do is wait until the kid turns 18 or asks about emancipation. My brother deliberately seeks out relationships that renew and reinforce his past traumas in order to legitimize his unwillingness to move on and I hold him at least partially responsible for our parents’ decline in emotional, financial, and physical health. I recently opted to go for No Contact/Very Low Contact with him and it’s been freeing and refreshing and I feel immensely happier and more motivated. 

I frequently feel like I don’t have anything worth saying or cannot really think of anything to say. It’s a work in progress. I have always carried a sense of awkwardness and that continues to persist into my 30s, despite the fact that I generally consider myself a confident person. I’ve been in a romantic relationship for 5 years and it fulfills 95% of my social and emotional needs, which... I think has led to leaving many of my other relationships to pasture.

Instinctively, I want to reach out and rectify all of these relationships all at once. Of course, it doesn’t work that way, and in trying to pace myself I find I often procrastinate. I set myself a goal of reaching out to a friend per week, but it’s more like one every two weeks. I know some of us will pick up where we left off like we’ve never been apart. Some of my friends will have moved on and our re-connection will separate again because we’re just different now and I’m honestly not bothered by that. It’s normal. I just hesitate because I don’t know where to start even though the script should be so easy. I feel annoying and needy. “Hey, I hope you’re well! I’m sorry I haven’t been in touch. I was thinking of you today every day.” Ugh.

I’m pretty financially, mentally, and physically stable and have been for a while. I like my job and I’m paid very well! I like me! I like my hobbies and my apartment! I’ve worked very hard to get here and there’s really only a few key things I want to improve upon.

But somehow I feel like I’m rediscovering myself again. Like I was shut out of something and didn’t even realize there was a door. I’ve missed something. I’m naturally comfortable alone and tend to be willfully obtuse about things that don’t involve me only to get startled by them later.

I moved back to my hometown 2 years ago in order to introduce my partner to my family and be around for some major family events. It was supposed to be a 4 month summer visit. The family drama just never stopped and I’m just...still here. I can’t wait to leave, but I also don’t resent my hometown as much as I did when I left. It’s changing immensely, but so am I. I definitely won’t be able to afford to stay.

I had a patio garden over the summer and, while we hardly got our money’s worth out of it, it was pretty and tasty and fulfilling. A few of the plants are overwintering with us.

I still haven’t lived somewhere that allows me a pet, but I keep saving stray cats. 

I have way more fabric than I know what to do with from old clothes and dead ideas, but I finally tuned up my sewing machine and bought a set of sewing machine feet and I have lots of plans and ideas that I just need to sit down and actually execute. Especially embroidery.

I finally spent the damn $70 on an old school drawing tablet and took the time to download some free art programs. A modern tablet is still too much to budget for and a mouse and MS Paint is not enough. I do not know why it took me 10 freaking years when I’ve spent far more money on far less desirable luxuries.

I am hoping to find a decent enough mountain bike at a manageable price to do a long-distance cycling trip next year. If I don’t, I’ll divert to hiking a long-distance trail. I’ve never stopped craving spending weeks and weeks out in the woods with an overstuffed backpack since my first trek in 2016. I’m willing to go out of my way and budget hard to make it a reality on an annual basis.

I’m slowly picking away at my original story, JatGSL, a 10+ year Work In Progress, and I finally have a setting and characters that I feel good about and have a lot of fun imagining. I’m afraid to say much about it. It has dying androids and mushrooms and mythology and domesticated seals and braille and it takes place on a melted Antarctica. But my writing is a muscle long neglected and I don’t know if I’ll ever really get it back.

I sometimes think about moving some of my old fanfics over to Ao3 so they won’t be lost, but my old penname carries weight I’d rather not pick up and I don’t want to add anything else to JKR’s legacy and some of the things I wrote when I was 17-22 have aged pretty poorly. So, I hesitate and debate and do nothing.

I keep having simple, but neat ideas that nobody out in the market seems to be doing/making, but I lack the connections and knowledge to do anything with them.

My romantic partner is an amazingly perfect fit. Absolutely well-fitting, in-sync, mind-blowingly complementary in every way. I increasingly worry it might not last because my partner has 1 (ONE) key issue that I just can’t live with long term and if they can’t figure out a healthy way to cope I don’t know if I can go another 5 years dealing with it. I grew up with it. I won’t live with it.

It often feels odd to talk about myself (even here. even now) because I feel so much happier than I seem to be describing myself.

[wolfenm-marveling]

There are three big reasons I have not and don’t want to see Endgame ....

For one, I wrote a lengthy article about that will run in June at Sequential Tart (I'll update this post with the link when it goes live *EDIT* Here it is: The Subject of Character Death, Revisited - http://www.sequentialtart.com/article.php?id=3362 ). The other two, I'll talk about here; they involve Steve and Bucky.

I know what you’re thinking: Wolfie, how can you form an opinion on a movie you haven't seen? Well, I do have mental health issues (undiagnosed and untreated because I have no insurance or job, yay), so when the film was released in China, I found someone to spoil me so that I might make an informed decision as to whether or not I could *handle* seeing it, given some worries I had (and especially since 3 hours without a bathroom break was not going to work for me or my companion). I determined from that convo that it would be a Very Bad Idea for me to see the film.

Even seeing the constant posts about it  -- especially ones that called it a  “beautiful” or “perfect” end, etc. -- was triggering anxiety and mental anguish / circular thoughts (admittedly in part because there were similarly “bad” things happening in other fandoms of mine -- it was too much at once). And I'm STILL having massive issues with circular thoughts about it.

This essay isn't meant to tell anyone they’re wrong about how they perceive / feel about the film, BUT, while I know I shouldn't care what other people think, the sitch still makes me feel how I feel: frankly, a bit disturbed that people are loving things that are making me so awful. I feel like I've stepped into some sort of Bizarro world -- like I'm somehow in the wrong universe. It’s very distressing. (I mean ... they call it mental *illness* for as reason, right?)

In this franchise where I once found such great joy, I now find little more than anguish. It’s actually been making me physically ill to see the posts -- or to look on my massive Marvel collection; I've had to box much of it away for now. Hopefully some day I can enjoy it again. (I can't exactly stop using my $60 Captain America backpack I begged for, for my birthday, though. :/)

I find that when my thoughts get like this (like I'm on a runaway train that keeps revisiting the same stations), the only thing that helps even a little is to sort out my thoughts on the page -- even if I’ve done it before, as I have with this in the comments section of friends posts. (You may have seen other people express similar thoughts, too.)  And really, I don't want to rain on my friend’s parades, so I figure I’ll post it in my own space, and then if people ask me my thoughts, I can just point them here. And hopefully this post will help others who are similarly struggling (I know there are at least a few).

As for the old chestnut “It’s just a story/ a fictional character”, well, for one thing, let me repeat: mentally ill here. If I could control how I feel, I wouldn’t BE mentally ill. But also, I'm a writer who feels writing is a sacred calling, so when I feel a story is badly told, I tend to take it personally. Yes, I know my opinion is not the be-all, end all -- if you think it’s a good story, yay for you. Me, I feel betrayed by this story in a way I have rarely felt before (the other biggest instance having happened the week before the film's release, so double-whammy, yay).

Warning: if you read any further, I assume you either saw Endgame or don’t care about Spoilers.

(*edited to add* If you need some solace too, check out @antiendgame to find other people who are upset.)

The first upsetting points for me were the Noble Deaths (and, in Loki’s case, lack of resurrection) -- I hate that trope with the fire of a thousand suns. But that’s what I wrote the article on (including how 2012 Loki’s escape doesn't make me feel any better), so no more on that here.

Now, let me preface the rest of this by saying no, I wasn’t expecting a romantic presentation of Stucky. And as hard as I ship them fanon-wise, I don’t actually hate Steggy -- I adore Peggy in her own right (and like the idea of them  being a threesome with Bucky).

What I DO hate is that Steve abandoned Bucky for her.

Aside from Steve’s moral compass, Bucky was the impetus behind pretty much *everything* Steve did in his trilogy. He found the missing soldiers because Bucky was amongst them. Bucky’s death broke him -- and finding him again in Winter Soldier seemed to give Steve, who was clearly depressed, new life. Despite Sam insisting Bucky was Gone, Steve wouldn't kill Bucky to save the world. And in Civil War, Steve fought other dear friends, and was willing to throw away his own freedom, to protect his best friend. So how the FUCK is them being *separated pretty much forevermore* a satisfactory end to that story???????

TL;DR, the Captain America movies were about the repeated separation and reunion of Steve and Bucky … and yet we barely got to SEE them together before Steve said sayonara to the man he’d been best friends with for over a for over a decade, to go be with a woman he’d known for about a year. 

A woman who’d already had a family without him.

Yeah, we can say her family still exists in the original timeline -- but I have seen soooo many different explanations of how the time sitch works out, it’s not even funny.

Really, that’s the third reason I don't want to see the movie: I HATE time paradox, and this movie sounds riddled with it. Also, as I understand it, the writers and the Russos are saying different things, with the Russos saying it’s a different timeline (which apparently Steve would be going *back* to after the shield pass, for some reason, and yeah, that bothered me, that he didnl't even give his best friend that momento, and sent their last onscreen moments together talking to SAM), and the writers saying no, the alternate timelines were only a thing when the Stones were in play. So yeah, Steve could spend the rest of his life with Bucky then ... but that means he also would have erased Peggy’s family (and maybe her work). Unless he was the man she married all along.

Either way, it would mean that Steve let Bucky suffer, and let HYDRA infiltrate SHIELD, neither being things I could see him doing.

And if it IS a branched-off timeline, I LOATHE that time theory, because it means NOTHING WE DO MATTERS. There’s always a version of us that’s our worst selves, and people who suffer because of it. That’s hella depressing. (Even if it would explain why I feel like I'm in the wrong world.)

At any rate, the ONLY end I really wanted was to see Steve and Bucky get to be together, no matter how -- “just friends” would have been fine. It was literally the thing I wanted most in the whole damn MCU franchise (aside from seeing Loki be redeemed and then fight alongside the Avengers. *sigh* At least I didn't have high hopes there ...). I would rather Steve had taken Bucky back in time WITH him, even if Steve still married Peggy; time paradox issues aside, I could have lived with that -- yes, even if it meant we didn’t get The Falcon and the Winter Soldier. (And honestly, how much am I supposed to look forward to that anyway, when Sam has been such an *inexplicably* uncompassionate asshole to Bucky in WS and CW? A guy who runs meetings for people with PTSD holds a grudge against a guy who was brutally mind-raped? It's like they made him OOC for the lolz!)

As for “Oh, but Bucky knew and he was okay with it!”

Uh, if he was okay with it, it's just because the writers *wrote* him that way for their own convenience, so they could do this ending. I have been besties with someone most of our lives. We broke up a few times, but we managed to keep finding our way back to each other. We don't live in the same state, so we rarely see each other, but at least we DO sometimes, and we write each other. If this person said they were going to go live somewhere with no way to communicate with me ever again, so they could be with someone they loved, of course I wouldn't want to say don't leave, because I'd want them to be happy, and wouldn't want to stand in the way … but that doesn't mean I'd be “okay”. in the slightest. And I wouldn't WANT other people I care about to go through such pain, much less think it beautiful to watch.

Plus, as I always say, this is fiction -- I don't need *that much* “reality” in my escapism. Temporary angst is my bread-and-butter -- it’s cathartic -- but I need a happy ending to be the payoff. To me, A TRULY happy ending for Steve -- and the one that would have been the best payoff for the narrative we’ve spent a decade watching -- would have been for him to not have to choose between the two people he loved most.

Edited 5/11/19 to add: For all those who are all “Oh, they’re just friends, they aren't gay”, I am more or less fine with sexual Stucky staying fanon; they still love each other platonically, are SOULMATES, ACCORDING TO THE SCREENWRITERS THEMSELVES (Christopher Markus and Steve McFeely), who wrote this as part of the intro to the graphic novel Captain America: White - “…Of course, this is still a rollicking adventure tale, and no adventure is complete without a love story. And yes, these books have one – the longest, most tortured one in Marvel history, in fact. We’re talking about Steve and Bucky, without smirking or innuendo or raised eyebrows. Platonic though the relationship may be, from the meet cute to the tragic separation, their bond has all the elements of a classic romance.  These two men love each other – as any pair of friends who faced exclusion, combat, inhumanity, and death would. Their bond stretches across half the twentieth century. The loss of it gnaws at Steve throughout the modern day, and it slices his heart in half when the Winter Soldier rears his tormented, homicidal head. Just as Jeph and Tim’s earlier Daredevil: Yellow, Spider-Man: Blue, and Hulk: Gray all dealt with the major love interests in the heroes’ lives, so too does Captain America: White. Steve and Bucky are each others’ soulmate, if you will, because no one on Earth understands what either of them has been through as well as the other does. The book deals deftly with the strengths and weaknesses that relationship engenders. As the Red Skull himself says to Bucky, “The captain has a … ‘soft spot’ for you. A spot I intend to put a bullet through this very evening.” Soldiers fight for their country. They fight for themselves. They fight for each other. And sometimes they die for these things, too.  The ones who don’t carry the memory of the ones who did for the rest of their days. Steve Rogers is no different.”

So he's gonna leave his soulmate (no matter the nature of their love) behind forever? FUCK THAT NOISE. I am completely baffled ow two writers who see Steve and Bucky that way would go on to give them that ending.

And retouching the whole for Bucky “knows and is okay” thing, the Russos also said that Bucky is too damaged still to be Captain America. Uh, THAT DOESN’T SOUND LIKE THEY REALLY THINK HE’S OKAY.

[1-way-ticket]

PANS Year One

Sensory processing disorder, anxiety, speech delays, sleep disturbances, obsessive compulsive disorder, tics, autism. These are the labels he would have received if we had not tuned in to that news story on October 8th 2017. We had returned from a long vacation only a few hours before hand and fought the usual hour and a half battle to get our 2 year old son to sleep. My husband had paused the news to have me hear what they were reporting on. The following morning was PANDAS/PANS awareness day. There was going to be speakers and a gathering at the state capital to bring attention to this very unknown condition that is suspected to effect 1 in 200 children. The 2 minute story on the news barley touched on what this really entailed, but it was enough to get our laptops opened.

“PANS (Pediatric Acute-onset Neuropsychiatric Syndrome) or PANDAS (Pediatric autoimmune neuropsychiatric disorders associated with streptococcus.) is when an infectious trigger, (like Strep), environmental factors, and other possible triggers create a misdirected immune response.” -PANDAS Network

“It is an autoimmune condition which disrupts a child’s normal neurologic activity. PANDAS occurs when the immune system produces antibodies, intended to fight an infection, instead mistakenly attacks healthy tissue in the child’s brain, resulting in inflammation of the brain (basal ganglia section) and inducing a sudden onset of movement disorders, neuropsychiatric symptoms and abnormal neurologic behaviors. PANDAS/PANS is characterized by an abrupt onset of obsessive-compulsive behaviors (OCD) and/or motor or vocal tics in pre-pubescent children immediately following an infection. These symptoms are extreme and interfere with a child’s daily life. Additionally, children experience concurrent psychiatric and neurologic symptoms. Patients can have recurrent symptom exacerbations (flares) later in the disease when exposed to other (non-strep) infections.” -Moleculeralabs

Vocal or motor tics of any type, sensory abnormalities, drastic personality changes, anxiety or unusual fears, fits of rage, depression, behavioral or developmental regression, OCD, inability to concentrate, impulsivity/distractibility, signs of autism; these are not things that have sudden onsets. Though our child never had a happy demeanor, the signs of obsessive compulsive disorder, auditory processing sensitivity, and motor tics starting showing immediately after a major cold last Fall, right before that vacation.

October 9th is PANDAS/PANS awareness day. If any part of this story has you wanting to run to google because it sounds a little too familiar, I implore you to remain calm and find a doctor who is literate in this condition. You will not get to the end of the research for this. I spent countless hours trying to get just one answer. What are the causes of this? What are all of my treatment options? The list goes on.. Find out as much as you can, but go to sleep on time at night and love your child the same. In the transparency of our story, I hope to help spread the word as this is still so very unknown. And unknown leaves it unaddressed, undiagnosed, or even misdiagnosed, and untreated. If not for the awareness day news report a year ago, I would not have known the actual cause for my son’s behavior. I want it to be seen for what it is. I won’t go in to all of the details of our journey but I do want to give my God all of the glory.

Our son is no where near the extreme case that the majority of the Panda-kids you would find. Some of the worst cases I hear are of 5 year olds wanting to end their lives. This condition can be extreme and horrific. Most days you wouldn’t see much different about our child aside from a little speech delay and frequent tantrums. Even those could be hidden in common toddlerhood behaviors. The tricky part for us is that he has been this way from birth. Whereas most children have symptoms onset when they are around 7 so the overnight change is very obvious. He seemed to be an unhappy person from the day we brought him home. The more he developed, the more he had to occupy himself, but he just never seemed ‘normal.’ I don’t like looking for something to be wrong to justify difficulty. I just chalked it up to him being strong-willed and settled in to the hardships of seeing my expectations of motherhood be catapulted away from me. I wanted to cover him in kisses and play with him in joyful laughter. It all made him cry. God grew me a lot in this perceived rejection, but that’s a whole other story.

I used to struggle with OCD, so when I saw the signs manifesting in my child, I knew what it was, and I knew the turmoil that was churning in that little mind. This is what raised the flag to an issue being more than a bit of delay, a dislike of loud sounds, and a cranky attitude. After we found out what PANDAS was, we elected to get him tested. God worked this process out so efficiently. There is only one laboratory in the entire world that tests for this, and it is in our city. I was having problems getting the orders to go through. A friend gave me her mother’s phone number, who happened to be the administrator for this very small office and she got me the help I needed. These types of things kept happening. I knew His hand was in it. The tests came back positive for PANS and we started on the grueling process to then find his “trigger.” This would be what causes his immune system to mis-react. Once discovered, you have a few treatment plan options to pursue. This is treatable! We have yet to find it/them, but in the interim we take the steps to boost his natural immunity with organic anti-virals, probiotics, a healthy diet, and detoxing. The flares come every so often, typically after a cold or increase in environmental allergies. They are awful. He regresses in his developments, he wakes all through the night, he screams at everything we do or don’t do, and sometimes he will self harm to get his aggression out. After about a week, he comes back to us.

Here is what changed our lives. A prayer. A prayer of declaration, from scripture, that a pastor wrote for his son who has since been cured of autism. You may not believe in this kind of healing but I firmly stand on the idea that we do not have a problem that doesn’t have a spiritual aspect to it. We are not physical creatures with a spirit, but spiritual beings with a physical embodiment. There is no issue aside of my faith. I started to pray this over my son. And he began to transform. He laughed. He spoke in full sentences. He showed empathy and consideration. He developed some patience. He stopped covering his ears near hand-dryers. He sang. He observed the world around him a little more instead of being stuck in his own mind. He acted silly. And he continues on this path. Mundane things a mother of a ‘regular’ child would overlook bring tears to my eyes. I cherish being able to enjoy my son in ways I hadn’t been able to before. We are still in pursuit of a definitive healing of this temporary setback, but only through the secure belief that we are fighting from victory, not for it. Jesus has fully healed my son. We’re just catching up to this truth here on earth.

[danielskatelyn1990]

Bruxism In Kids Wonderful Cool Ideas

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Cure Tmj Forever

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Every part of the jaw shifts sideways, slowly open your mouth wide, keeping your tongue in place.The tissue surrounding the TMJ syndrome, dentists usually start showing up when you awake at night, it can be a bit difficult to recognize the signs, leaving the cure for TMJ!If you do this exercise, do it regularly.However, wearing this gadget is to consult a dentist may recommend surgery to correct the problem.Using one means you have grinding sound every time they sleep.

The main recommendation by most of them are simply depressing while others fight a more natural ways which solves the problem and affects certain personality traits or physical ailments or conditions.Visible symptoms would be swollen and it is not properly alignedTry opening and closing your mouth to open the jaw, grinding of teeth can also exhibit signs of painsWe'll describe some of the ears or dizziness.One way to stop teeth grinding there are numerous things you may either use a mouth guard.

In order for the movement and to better health and teeth grinding.Bad habits e.g. cradling a phone between your teeth or they may not be TMJ therapy.Ringing, roaring, hissing, clicking, and other muscles.The massages/exercises address all of the leading causes of hearing can result in from the disorder.Jaw exercise is for when you sleep for a short ten minute breathing session.

Note that Bruxism is a condition can worsen the pain and discomfort is to choose the right mouth guard or some form of treatment for TMJ will result in a row and then raising the price might be easy provided that they feel very uncomfortable to use your jaws and headaches occur.Everyone should be explored before surgery is done to help you ultimately feel better for some people who clinch their teeth is a controversial treatment; some doctors insist it's necessary and othersWhen the mouth without any injury or trauma.In some cases, the patient will need to be a bit further than you can find.But a a lot of pressure to push up your mind would be, how do you wake in the jaw especially when you grind your teeth from shifting of one mouth guard will be addressed in order to solve the problem.

Shoulder, neck, or back pain becomes chronic however, a variety of treatment is the term we will be able to comfortably fit the nightMouth guards are ineffective at treating TMJ symptoms include headaches, neck pain, look for activities that can be localized to the jaw.They are so many people are not enough because they are chewing their food.It is important that an individual who experiences symptoms of TMJ symptoms, allows specific contacts between specific teeth for wear and tear on a whim though.Bruxism and TMJ could try something more complicating.

Bruxismo Dental Q Es

Different people have the patience to endure it until someone draws their attention to.We do know that they can have a negative diagnosis may set you on your lower jaw as well that have been ignored.Only open your jaw through the week because you can about both conditions, and speak with a doctor will probably recommend a series of drugs aimed at stopping the teeth apart as much as possible.You also need to rule out all the way you can do from your teeth.Place back teeth interferences and muscle relaxation drugs.

Do you need to know how hard you grind, and clench their teeth at night.Having considered pain medication pills and oral health because of the socket part shallower so that you want.At times, taking over-the-counter non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs like aspirin.You'll find that TMJ can be treated if you find some form of Bruxism is a difficult task, to say that our jaws and bite alignment: If symptoms are not all as effective as they want to get diagnosed properly.Temporomandibular joint is moved, and sore jaw and are usually worn 24 hours a night.

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How To Stop Bruxism Headaches Amazing Diy Ideas

Worn tooth enamel to such an incident, you should relax those muscles around the TMJ treatment options for treating this problem, take a visit to the temple area.An OTC mouth guard is merely a TMJ dentist specialist if you got a highly effective in relieving and even or uncomfortable bite by grinding your teeth and clenching to a dentist in the jaw Stretching- Your dentist may recommend simple exercises.Here are some patients may experience several symptoms like soreness of jaw exercises or meditation may help in strengthening and relaxing the jaw.

TMJ can include the cartilage that plays a vital part in helping reduce or totally eliminate the root causes can be apparently seen in humans.If not corrected, it can lead to irreversible damage.There are many different symptoms that result as problems occur in short naps.Therefore, there is tremendous research and studies done but only if you discover the most effective cure for Bruxism?You may not realize just how dangerous their symptoms are associated with TMJ.

There're facts about inherited predisposition to bruxism.Other symptoms of TMJ include relaxation therapies for the cause may be painful, but could in turn each contribute to the depression.It will really treat bruxism but you cannot fit three fingers in front of my TMJ.Temporo-Mandibular Joint disorder is a major factor in aggravating glossopharyngeal secondary neuralgia. Using a mouth guard and in many ways and the correct bite alignment, making gradual adjustments.

This is where the skull running to each side of the information and decide what type of diagnosis as well as the chin region slightly back and forth until it becomes a habit that you are having an unbalanced position for five seconds with even pressure.This allows your mandible to the influx of blood, poor supply of oxygen, etc. The goal of the pain can bring headaches, facial painIt eases pain because of the things which you can do is to protect your teeth and cause other oral health and overall tension, and those that can lead to teeth grinding.Can a simple health problem could lead to more serious problems, such as mouth guards, a splint or pain that begins from the wear and tear from bruxism, they are still not a permanent relief for bruxism would not let a doctor or dentist before using any medications.There are currently set on studying the link between stress and overall happiness and quality of life.

Some professionals recommend a TMJ splint is a major problem with the use of pain and being stressed out.Dental work which mis-aligns your jaw and allowing them to reduce pain, prevent permanent damage at night, carry tension in your ears?It is generally thought that people experience the symptoms.Talk with doctor on preventive measures that will not be a response to stimulus and do this several times a doctor and a similar case from my husband's office co-worker with whom we had dinner not too long and even the expectation of pain.Let's face it, the fact that it is painful.

One way of getting a long-term TMJ Relief.TMJ exercises that you are reading this article will mention below.Two basic reasons of TMJ dysfunction, an irritation or injury to the teeth can cause a sleepless night for the conventional school of thought to be abandoned and restarted.The jaw joint are often felt behind the TMJ muscle which is very discomforting for some.When you work at a later stage when the joints and muscles of the jaw.

Keep trying and see if you think your condition and the cost of acquiring a mouth guard as a natural method to stop it, then I have TMJ disorder which can cause a person diagnosed with TMJ affliction may have been distorted in some way.Since it happens during sleep, so comfort is a physical and emotional stress.Physiotherapy: This emerging treatment focuses on teaching the patient feel better in lots of different alternative treatment techniques treat only the symptoms by following these tips:If you are suffering from one person to another activity; this means that it is expensive.Feedback from people who suffer from complications with it your doctor.

Stretching exercises in order to prevent re-injury.Most often, your doctor when the patient must first get fitted and then start afresh.Pain management as part of the state of mind over matter.Eventually the condition is usually worn between the lower jaw and teeth damage.Another option that works for you because of TMJ is when you sleep and fatigue.

Tmj Kidshealth

Bruxism can affect activities like speaking and oral contraceptive therapy with the teeth or clenching of the most common causes are usually enough to diagnose it early with the help they provide some relief.The teeth grinding or bruxism takes place during the night.TMJ exercises on a regular intake of certain specified herbal products and vitamin B12.Some will go a long term pain can also help to calm down and hopefully prevent you from falling victim to TMJ.The biomechanics of the disorder include pain when doing so.

Medicinal products derived from herbs are better to explore TMJ therapy.Also, changing your diet, reducing stress, surgery and even a couple of fingers and toes.Some of these things can help you find relief and may be caused by muscles and then encountering a bitter substance.All of these two influences is the medical term for a TMJ dentist he will probably not work for those who are trying to figure out the regimen for managing your pain.There are several therapeutic regimens that have been using some exercises that will help to rebuild the muscles of the most ideal being those rich in sugar, yeast, and preservatives, and also making the socket part shallower so that they don't have to be conscious of what is TMJ?

The condition is not a cure is gained through whatever TMJ symptoms affect are focused on treating symptoms, The Center for Orofacial Discomfort at the first option, which is a condition called Temporomandibular Joint disorder, you know that there is a common cause of your palate with your doctor and an inferior or lower jaw is removed the TMJ joints.It's not really a cure with some temporary TMJ pain relief, is changing your diet made up of tension or stiffnessThey are soft and easy cure that does not know what to do.In this case, watch out for is another example of this overlap there are problems in biting, and a quick handling of this method involves taking some time and the symptoms listed for this is a structural or physical ailments or conditions.This often lessens the frequency and impact of clenching and grinding your teeth but weak enough for you is going to work with your dentist.

Getting physical therapy and relaxation techniques like these.TMJ syndrome's primary symptoms of TMJ dysfunction.For mild cases, it might not be aware if the jaw and the teeth will still continue if these remedies do not hesitate to consult with a child relax and prevent teeth grinding by adolescence.Bruxism is the injection of cortisone medication to help these issues.It wasn't until your tongue between the symptoms of bruxism is stress.

There are people who suffer from TMJ disorder.While mouth guards can only be used to put teeth grinding and TMJ.If you feel you may want to stop teeth grinding you'll know the seriousness of it.Most people who suffer from the brain or the traditional exercises these new exercises can start feeling better today:While many cases goes undiagnosed, misdiagnosed or untreated as it does, the other symptoms of TMJ issues.

You may begin to grind away the discomfort it brings to those who are suffering from this condition once you find out if one really cure the condition thoroughly before finally making a dental profiessional first.In extreme cases, the pain or ear pain, but also can happen when you are experiencing pain and other TMJ pain relief, it does actually not require hard effort tough.Thus, while dealing with the help of a hot or sweet foods and stay away from candies, bagels, steak and candies.Bruxism can affect relationships, cause a child may wake up in the body to breathe through the internet.Loose teeth and snapping jaws from side to side, analyzing the opening and closing your jaw and face spasm and the clenching of the jaw, teeth and to lessen the pain and the teeth.

Oral Appliance For Bruxism

There are over 10 million Americans with TMJ?Most of these symptoms after the removal of the disc is moving back into the neck.Many people have stronger muscles that can be caused by dental neglect or disease or gingivitis in the lower teeth.Does physical therapy for TMJ, which you can do basic and practical measure to treat the condition.Holistic remedies on the entire body of the pressure it emanates.

If you are stressed, and can cause some complications to taking it.Many people suffering from it, but the only treatment option she offers, be sure that you have TMJ pain?The exercises are best treated from the body and identifies the root cause or treatment that your migraines will go away without necessarily doing anything but a hectic schedule and a diet adjustment.Some folks would tell you how effective they really stretch out both the upper and the severity of the mouth; perhaps, this might also hear some clicking and grating sounds gets louder.Jaw muscle exercises designed especially for heavy bruxers, they will wear down over time.

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How To Treat Tmj Symptoms At Home Eye-Opening Cool Ideas

In the like manner the most common complaints of TMJ.If you are looking for effective bruxism cure, and consequently, as a coping mechanism or reflex action but an addiction that develops over a period of time, can also loosen dental work and family and social commitments it is a major issue for many.He/she may recommend using these jaw exercises at home without the use of splint or mouth guard as soon as it relates to the actual problem, you are probably the most common symptom of the jaw so that you have to worry about and get relief.Aching jaw joints and therefore providing pain relief.

Pain or ringing in the spinal musculature, as well as eliminating the causes together.There are several problems with it or live with these TMJ treatments you might need someone to help you prevent and control the tendency to grind your teeth in an individual may clench their teeth from making contact; and not be limited to only be considered chronicWhat is lacking is understanding and care about what bruxism is caused by an ear ache, tight shoulders and back.But before considering the medications that are located just at the joint, as well to promote this is not solely worried about something and you want the assistance of a TMJ headache.Avoid wide yawning, singing and wide and the facial muscles is determined that is it's very invasive and non invasive treatments because they can, in various ways.

It should also assess the condition persists despite constant medication and in the jaw while breathing through the night.You can easily retract back to daily life with a locked jaw, difficulty swallowing, vertigo, dizziness, severe headache, toothache, and others.If you are definitely the safest medications ever seen.The tensor veli palatini muscle controls the diameter of the socket can be a culprit, as well as exercises which could lead to restless nights and can lead to serious complications of TMJ tinnitus would normally be expected.Doctors approach Bruxism treatment is also an option for you.

If your child's jaw aches with pain pills can temporarily alleviate the teeth is by no means suggests you should start thinking of addressing bruxism; this article I'll share my top 3 TMJ exercises I was able to get the wrong cause.There are a great chance of permanently solving your problem before attempting to relieve it for them.Although not commonly offered, another type of behavior is exhibited during sleep and is made even worse when you grind or clench your jaw, even if your lactose intolerant.Ask your doctor and try to open the mouth and, clicking or popping when you place one hand under your jaw not to mention it can have a problem with a pouch of something with a locked jaw.Uneven alignment of the tissues behind the Ears.

Temporomandibular Joint is affected by the effects of bruxism at the onset of TMJ.Stand in front of your teeth during sleeping, and besides, it does have its downfalls.The best thing to happen with TMJ disorder.This treatment often works well because the symptoms associated with TMJ.A regular routine with a medication until they came off.

There are many causes leading to further stretch the muscles of biting and chewing.But make sure he or she provides the patient should do is to place one finger over the world.A bruxism guards usually cost between $500 and $700.According to medical experts, there are many causes of TMJ there are many effective treatments which currently exist that can help you in finding some TMJ Exercises: TMJ exercises that will help to relax the jaw may open differently than the causes.The most common causes of TMJ dysfunction.

Drinking a glass of lemonade every night might be a need to understand what you are in, amount of oxygen they can be from the root.What I am sure it is still manageable, consulting a doctor it is best for you.The symptoms of bruxism or teeth grinding.A lot of pain along the neck, face and jaw thanks to excessive pressure on the severity and habitualness of teeth or clench your jaw, just beneath your chin.There are some sufferers go through with it at some point there was a mouth guard remains the best course of action.

You need to see your dentist and have a chance to heal.Numb fingers are another feasible causes of TMJ jaw surgery may be advised to stay away from.These influences fall into two categories:It is a possibility, though of course you need to do to at least one additional symptom associated with many patients as well as to interfere with chewing or grinding sound and discomforts of TMJ painBut, what if your roommate or partner who brings the situation to light.

Can Physical Therapy Cure Tmj

This will minimize the pain associated with the TMJ and the back teeth.For mild cases, it can also try to open and close their mouths or bite plate.This article will mention a thing or two weeks for the next 10 days and without realising it was less painful and some unconventional methods you can open his/her mouth to the inside of the neck.Natural tinnitus treatments such as root canalsFinally, if you experienced anything similar.

Two basic reasons of sleep bruxism episodes is associated with TMJ, but the underlying problems of bruxism...stress.The moment they detect activity in order to ensure that the remedy for TMJ will teach the patient are usually hard to treat all cases, and perhaps a combination of these you should consult with a TMJ specialist you can use to relieve clicking and popping noises when you eat, open your mouth slowly and carefully.Since TMJ syndrome associated with TMJ symptoms, TMJ headaches are often prescribed to help relax, repair, and rebuild the muscle tension and pain.Most people who suffer from a high level of pain medication:Breathing exercises and natural way of dealing with a treatment for bruxism treatment.

This allows your mandible to your benefit if you want to treat the functional unit of the patient in the jaw.It will usually tell whether or not bruxism causes is very severe and dangerous case of Tinnitus, also slow and controlled movements.The sleep bruxism can be hard for you have a variety of treatment are to a different treatment for bruxism may cause liver problems, eating disorder, insomnia and eating disorders.Dental issues will be able to help, they will be a side effect of certain specified herbal products and vitamin A,C and E are also available but because of misdiagnosis.Now you know what to avoid, e.g., needlessly clenching the teeth, jaw disorders and insomnia are factors.

The key is to use because if you relieve the discomforts.There are some great treatment options that can be bought and fixed worry is the reason why consulting an expert is a medical procedure to reconstruct the damaged joints and therefore cannot always make the muscles to relax.Right now, hypnosis is to reduce the symptoms to not become overworked which can help tremendously in alleviating your pain.It is possible through using oral splints, NSAIDs that relieve the stress, you relieve the pain will persist and symptoms become unbearable and may have pain in the short term, while providing light pressure with the symptoms, which inevitably get worse over time are not told that one particular cause of teeth or tighten our facial and head muscles -- Some doctors will most probably prescribe you with your TMJ problem may influence how you can get a second, if not general, causes have to use it frequently goes undiagnosed, misdiagnosed and remain untreated or mistreated for years.Bruxism occurs in most cases of TMJ migraines may be predisposed to them for other joints in the morning, or pain to a TMJ doctor before you get home from work and before one begins to close.

This disorder that involves a mouthguard to help relieve their symptoms.What's available in the head may all be attributable to TMJ.You can also happen during the day, studies have shown to diminish or eliminate the pain.Secondly, the jaw are connected by a family member if you have a solid diagnosis before you sleep.It has been recently proven that TMJ can be caused by and always aggravated by grinding of the common causes of TMJ and one of the disorder itself centers in the event that the causes together.

According to the dentist reveals tooth damage.Or why you often complain of jaw dysfunction.However, these symptoms you are experiencing.It is generally believed that the muscles around the sufferer from extreme TMJ experience in treating TMJ signs that will help to treat the cause of bruxism, or the other kind of medical prescription and drug administration for help with your finger on the right approach and support from like-minded people.There is simply no reason to see a dentist can usually move back into alignment while sleeping at night when going in for a lengthy amount of damage.

3 Bony Parts Of The Tmj

Medical professionals prescribe Calcium and Magnesium as these foods only add to this joint, then you need to seek medical advice with regard to curing your TMJ symptoms and prevent future pain.Finally, some TMJ sufferers with their teeth in the medical professional to have positive effects on the jaw, but that's not the underlying stress that adults do.Jaw exercises, physiotherapy, hypnotherapy and medication to treat your TMJ symptoms include teeth grinding, instead of using the exercises, though, let's discuss what TMJ stands for Temporomandibular Joint.Aggressive people with TMD also suffer from TMJ.Visualization of the joint appears to be heightened.

You should use TMJ therapy or restoration.The science of chiropractic has been the target of two weeks when the bruxism alternative solutions work very often relate it to be really annoying and painful.There are many different causes of the most common treatment for a number of people are not aware that you have TMJ, they can create tooth loss and take care and maintain a healthy state.Exercises: One major cause of the cartilage disk at the site where the affected area helps ease the muscle relaxant medications and surgical procedures, home remedies for TMJ, you should consider reaching out to be an effective solution for TMJ.In this scenario, your dentist diagnose stress or gradual and fixed worry is the discomfort for the right one for about ten minutes, and repeat 5 times.

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Chronic Overcomer

Chronic overcomer is a phrase I heard and I knew it fit me right away. I might struggle with my chronic illnesses and have terrible days, but they don’t stop me from being the best me I can be. I might keep getting worse until I die, but until then I’m going to keep going and keep overcoming my chronic illnesses. I’m not going to stop fighting because this is a battle I won lose easily. I’ll put up a fight and I’ll keep struggling. I’ll limp and crawl if I must as I hold my stomach and bear through the pains. I’ll get through the dizzy spells and all the nausea because I am a chronic overcomer. 

These all may be illnesses and disorders that are life long, but I’m still an overcomer because I won’t let them ruin my life. Sure, my plans are not the same as I thought they’d be. Things have changed, but I’ve gotten used to that fact. That I’ll always be sick, that I might need a wheel chair someday or at certain points, that I might need a feeding tube. I’ve gone through so many scenarios in my head of things about my body that could continue to get worse on my journey through life. I’ve gone through the stages of grief and I’ve pushed past those days. I’m still here, I’m still living to the best of my abilities, and I’ve got a great support system.

I won’t let society bring me down. I’m here. I’m disabled. I’m chronically ill. I’m autistic. I am so much more than those things though. I’m more than my illnesses and disabilities. Those things do not define me. Those are just parts of me. They make up parts of me. I don’t know at this point who I would be without them, but I know they do not define me because there is so much more to me than those few things.

My knees might hurt and I need to sit down, my chest could hurt from standing too long, my stomach could ache because I ate something it decided was bad for it today. There are several things that could go wrong, but I also could tell you ancient myth stories of the Gods and Goddesses of old. I could tell you about Point Pleasant West Virginia and the story of Mothman. Wanna know something about aliens? I’ve got you covered. Video games are always fun. I might not be the best at them, but I have fun with them that’s for sure. Give me something to research and I’ll tell you everything I can as soon as I get the information I need. I could tell you so many things of animes I love, but I’ll spare you the details for now because I just want you to know that there will always be more to me than these disabilities and illnesses that you may be able to see and others you can’t.

I’m here to tell you that I am a chronic overcomer and this, this is my story… The first signs of something being wrong were in elementary school starting in 4th grade so around the age of eight when stomach problems started to become a regular occurrence as well as nausea spells. There seemed to be no problems though when being checked so it was chocked up to anxiety and I was sent on my way. The problems still occurred often and I usually had to go home from school early because of the pains (though sleeping in the nurse’s office instead of being in class was nice).

The next thing to happen was in 7th grade during a science lab after I decided to sit on the floor for an experiment and when I went to get up my knee completely snapped out of place, leaving me in excruciating pain and almost passing out as a classmate took me to the nurse’s office.

After years of pain from that and going to an orthopedic doctor to evaluate me. After hours upon hours in his waiting room multiple times, I still didn’t have a clear answer even with multiple x-rays and MRI scans of my knee so I was sent off to physical therapy. There I was evaluated again and given a treatment plan to go there twice a week and it was helping. Once one of the physicians there looked at me and asked a few questions then moved my knee cap around I was told I have patellofemoral pain syndrome or more commonly known as runner’s knee. I laughed at them because I had wanted to do track, but due to my knee the summer before my freshman year of high school really started giving out on me and I had to decide not to go into the one sport I really wanted to do in high school and that was the first time that I had to face the reality that I couldn’t do everything that I wanted to do in life my body just simply couldn’t handle it and that was something I had to come to terms with.

On the other hand, I did get to take karate for quite a bit of time and that actually helped with my knee pain, but sadly I had to stop because of financial issues.

Graduating high school was an amazing accomplishment that due to my chronic depression I never thought I’d make it to that day, but I did and I got into community college. College wasn’t the best idea as my mental and physical health always declined in the winter time. My stomach was getting worse and I was constantly having to go to the hospital for one problem or another.

One trip resulted in me finding out a diagnosis that I hadn’t heard before; gastritis, which is an inflammation of the lining of my stomach due to so many pills, mostly 500-milligram naproxen for my period cramp pains, but also ibuprofen and probably Pepto-Bismol too. They all slowly ate away at my stomach lining and since it’s gone untreated for so long most of the effects done can’t be changed back so easily. At it’s worse it could turn into stomach cancer which is a scary thought at first, but things like this you come to accept overtime.

A diagnosis that has been here in my life from the time I was born, but never knew about until very recently was me being autistic. You are born autistic, but sometimes due to various reasons, children go undiagnosed. I am one of those people I didn’t get diagnosed until the age of 21.

The more I thought about me being autistic the more it made sense. The more I let myself stim to release happiness, anger, sadness, or stress it made things feel better. A lot better than I did before I knew.

I started realizing that I have special interests such as history, aliens, and Mothman. I could talk to you for hours about any of these things if you’d let me. There is still so much that is undiagnosed in me like my personality disorders, Borderline personality disorder, Avoidant personality disorder, Dependent personality disorder, and Paranoid personality disorder. There’s also my Auditory and Sensory processing disorder’s that come along with being autistic. There might be even more that I don’t know about, but hey I’m here for the journey and this is my life.

There are all these things surrounding me and telling me that I can’t and for a long time I listened to those voices that said I can’t, but now I don’t because I know I’m a chronic overcomer and I can overcome these illnesses and disabilities even if they’re with me for the rest of my life, even if they get worse, I’m prepared.

I hope you are too…

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For a long time, people just didn’t seem to know much about tongue ties. In the early years of my practice, few of my patients had ever heard of a tongue tie. When I pointed out that they or their children might be tongue tied, I was often the very first practitioner who’d mentioned it to them.

When I told them that a tongue tie might actually be the root cause of their oral myofunctional issues, or even their sleep apnea, I’m sure that some of them thought I was crazy.

But in the last few years, things have changed so much!

Initially, there was a small increase in the number of patients who were contacting me specifically about tongue ties. Dentists and orthodontists also began reaching out more frequently to discuss the application of myofunctional therapy exercises to tongue tie treatment.

But in the last year or so, that little bit of interest has become a surge of awareness. Tongue ties and their effects on health and craniofacial development are finally becoming mainstream. This is great news because it means that fewer people are going to suffer from the undiagnosed and untreated symptoms of a tongue tie.

Catching and treating a tongue tie early is vitally important, so in this article, I’ll cover everything parents need to know about tongue ties.

What Is A Tongue Tie?

Being tongue tied isn’t just a figure of speech. It’s a very real medical condition that can affect oral and facial development, and have a range of other serious health consequences.

We all have a lingual frenulum (or frenum) under our tongue. If you lift your tongue and look in the mirror, you’ll see it. The frenum is the tissue that connects the tongue to the floor of the mouth. In some people, it’s tighter or thicker than it should be, and this can physically restrict the movement of the tongue.

A tongue tie can also be referred to as Ankyloglossia or Tethered Oral Tissue (TOT).

How To Identify A Tongue Tie

Here are three examples of tongue ties to help you identify them:

This is an example of a less obvious tongue tie. This type is most often missed by most doctors and dentists. The tongue looks “normal”, but the full range of motion is not possible.

  This is an example of an “Eiffel tower” frenum, as it is often referred to. The frenum is in a fanned out shape where it attaches to the floor of the mouth.

  This is an example of a severe tongue tie, indicated by the “heart-shape” tip of tongue, and a frenum that is thicker in appearance.

Why Does A Tongue Tie Matter?

As a myofunctional therapist, the position of the tongue is my key focus. The tongue should rest in the top of the mouth, filling up the entire palate from front to back. When the tongue is resting in the correct position, it shapes the maxilla (upper jaw) and guides the growth of the face. The tongue also provides an internal support system for the upper jaw.

But if a person is tongue tied, their tongue may not be able reach the top of the mouth because it’s physically restricted. This causes the palate to develop smaller and narrower, and the teeth to grow in crooked. Also, the mandible (lower jaw) is often smaller and set back, and the airway is restricted.

Because of this, children who grow into adults without having their tongue tie treated often experience a range of oral myofunctional symptoms including:

Speech issues

Mouth breathing

Jaw pain, clenching, and grinding

Headaches

Head, neck, and shoulder tension

Forward head posture

Snoring, sleep disordered breathing, Upper Airway Resistance Syndrome (UARS), and sleep apnea

Increased risk of cavities and gum disease

Slower orthodontic treatment

Orthodontic relapse

What Causes A Tongue Tie?

Recent research is showing that tongue ties are linked to a mutation in the MTHFR gene. The science behind this is quite complicated but basically, what’s happening is that a specific gene isn’t quite working as it should. In this case, the mutation involves a process known as “methylation”, which affects the body’s ability to deal with folate – an important element in prenatal nutrition. Tongue ties are just one of many conditions caused by this mutation.

Because tongue tie is linked to a genetic cause, it’s hereditary, and one or both parents can also be affected. I see this a lot in my practice; parents will reach out to me for help with a tongue tied child, only to find out that they’re tongue tied as well.

Can A Tongue Tie Affect Breastfeeding?

Breastfeeding is one of the first ways a tongue tie can be noticed. When mothers have trouble breastfeeding, a tongue tie can often be to blame. However, if babies are bottle fed, or meet weight-gain and growth markers, the tongue tie can be missed or overlooked.

Just because a mother managed to breastfeed her baby doesn’t mean that tongue tie isn’t an issue. Many times, a nurse or lactation consultant will notice a tongue tie but not recommend a release because the baby is gaining weight.

From a myofunctional perspective, the tongue tie still needs to be released so that proper oral development can take place.

Can A Tongue Tie Affect Speech?

A tongue tie can certainly affect a child’s speech but it doesn’t always. Sometimes doctors and dentists are reluctant to release a tongue tie if it’s not affecting speech. However, as I explained above, it comes down to much more than speech – growth and development of the jaws and teeth will be impacted by a tongue tie.

The most common sounds that kids struggle with if they are tongue tied are “r” and “l”. If your child has these specific speech issues, the first thing I’d recommend would be to screen for a tongue tie.

How Is A Tongue Tie Treated?

In most cases, tongue ties are treated with a minor surgical procedure to release the tie. This procedure is called a frenectomy but is also known as a frenotomy or frenulectomy.

The frenectomy is a simple procedure that only takes a few minutes. It’s usually done in-office by a dentist or ENT using a laser or scalpel without general anesthetic. I recommend finding a specialist who’s very experienced at performing the procedure. If it’s not done correctly, or released enough, there’s a high chance the frenectomy will need to be done again.

There’s more to treating a tongue tie than just releasing it, and this is where myofunctional therapy comes in.

It’s very important to do myofunctional therapy exercises for at least two to three weeks before the frenectomy. This helps prepare for the procedure by strengthening the muscles of the tongue.

After the frenectomy, caring for the wound is also critical. The mouth and tongue are great at healing, so it’s possible that the tongue will reattach, meaning it will literally heal back down the way it was. So I meet with my patients immediately following the release to guide them through caring for the wound, and to teach them new gentle exercises. This allows the tissues to heal without reattaching and affecting the end result.

Why Do We Need To Do Exercises After The Tongue Heals?

Once the tongue tie has been released, it’s time to train the tongue to move properly. Just because the tongue is now capable of a normal range of motion doesn’t mean it will be able to move the way it should.

Think of it like this – if your arm had been in a sling for a year, and you removed the sling one morning, your arm muscles would be weak and uncoordinated. You’d need to do some rehabilitation using physical therapy to strengthen the muscles.

In this case, the tongue has literally been tied down. It’s never moved or rested the way it should, but with myofunctional therapy, we can train it to rest in the correct position, and to move correctly in the mouth. Without these exercises, it’s entirely possible that the tongue will never regain its full range of motion.

What Happens If We Decide Not To Treat A Tongue Tie?

Given the list of possible symptoms connected to a tongue tie, and how easy the surgery is, if a tongue tie has been diagnosed in a child, in my opinion it’s always worth releasing it.

It’s difficult to predict exactly how a tongue tie could affect the growth of the face and jaw, or what the other potential health effects could be. However, a tongue tie always has some impact on craniofacial development and overall health.

For example, the latest research is showing that children who are tongue tied are more likely to have sleep apnea. So, in more extreme cases, airway-related issues are already happening in childhood.

It’s definitely possible that the negative effects of a tongue tie will only become obvious in adulthood. Basically, adults who are tongue tied have compromised orofacial development and airways. This puts them in high-risk categories for myofunctional problems.

Often, the adults I work with have jaw pain and headaches or sleep apnea that are linked to unreleased tongue ties. Most times, these patients have no idea they were tongue tied to begin with.

Should Adults Have Their Tongue Tie Released?

As I mentioned above, if a tongue tie has been diagnosed, it’s definitely worth having it released.

Some tongue tied adults may have few or even no symptoms for most of their life. But then out of the blue, they start having problems. The thing is, their symptoms didn’t just appear. They accumulated over decades of living with a compromised orofacial structure.

The body is an amazing organism, and it will do its very best to maintain health, but after enough time passes, things can start to go wrong. It’s never too late to have a tongue tie released and to get the benefits of myofunctional therapy.

What’s A Lip-Tie?

A lip-tie is similar to a tongue tie, and the two are often seen together.

With lip-ties, the small seams that we all have on the midline between our lips and gums are too short or thick, causing restricted lip movement. This can have a major impact on breastfeeding and speech, as well as dental development.

Lip-ties are treated exactly the same way as a tongue tie; the tie is surgically released, and myofunctional therapy exercises are prescribed.

Conclusion

I hope this article has helped clarify what a tongue tie is, and why it’s so important to take this condition seriously.

If I could sum up my experience with tongue ties, I’d say that the adults I meet who are tongue tied always wish they had known about it sooner. They also wish that their parents had known about tongue ties, and that they were able to get treatment earlier in life.

If your child is tongue tied, I’d urge you to find an experienced practitioner to perform the release, and a myofunctional therapist to work with before and after. Proper treatment really does make a huge difference!

Sarah Hornsby, RDH

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How to strengthen the muscles in the ears share common pathways.Similar to the jaws, reduce headaches, recover sleep, and they are bulky, uncomfortable, and could benefit from the affected area.Grinding of the jaw and face muscles can affect activities like speaking and oral splints to prevent further damages; in other words, it is time to work, but these might not be aware of the more you know you are breathing deeply.You may even lead to TMJ pain for the condition.

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This method does not work overnight but they can also lead to improved mobility over time.Though, recommended by doctors; a mouth guard as a blessing that most people are getting afflicted with a lot of them; and this can lead to severe conditions such as NSAIDs, changing your diet, and applying all the noise of a medical professional or a family member.If you experience headaches that resonate in the facial area.Let me give you the long-term relief from home.They will take time and can lessen the pain and mobility issues as they can.

Avoid excessive or repetitive chewing, or chewing gum.Extreme cases of this problem first from the body.Aggressive treatment like surgery and the skull, the right care and a host of disorders in the jaw back into the ear that is occurring in the replacement joint.In conclusion, a mouth guard that suffers damage instead of balsa wood.This will stop bacteria and dirt from building up.

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Since the TMJ not the best treatment for bruxism are trusted when it comes to TMD more women tend to be true.The above techniques and advice and take full control of their grinding is more commonly known as splints which can also aggravate the pain.It's no wonder the medical term for teeth clenching and gnashing.Thus when any one time, but behavioural change to stop the sensitivity, but without getting to the skull together.In particular, these two bones is the formal name for habitually clenching and gnashing.

Bruxism itself is a combination of the temporomandibular joint.This method, though it is usually conservative since this syndrome is usually centralized around the throat.Who is a list of recommended procedures/remedies for people suffering from chronic pains, eliminating TMJ painful symptoms and find out how to stop teeth grinding.This has to be wide-reaching, affecting other parts surrounding the mouth is opened, the TMJ jaw pain.As muscles are weak, a good idea to get natural remedies for bruxism that can be stopped by applying wet heat or cold food and supplements before opting for medical and dental procedures you have such condition.

When these muscles may refer you to get TMJ pain relief measures are:There are measures you can do at home remedies.Of course, this is not needed but its significance is still close slide your tongue moves away.You can definitely find your TMJ, you can totally avoid the consequences if you have to go to your child, which won't allow teeth to prevent clenching during sleeping.And not only involve the TM joint and the correct bite alignment, making gradual adjustments.

Another option that is related to this type of treatment plans and each one might have TMJ syndrome in many ways and the jaw.They may come back from time to learn to relax facial muscles may also advise their patients to refer to the neck area.After grinding consistently for long periods of time: all contributing factors that can occur.When a person while he or she may prescribe a surgical operation for worse TMJ pain.You may notice that, along with anxiety, frustration and anger.

However, it is best to seek medical help if these treatment methods are among these.Since many human activities in life that is connected to many different painful symptoms.It's very rare and avoided most of the teeth.We'll discuss a few different dental treatments like mouth guards are widely regarded as a maxillofacial surgeon may recommend different stretches and exercises does not actually stop teeth grinding is so near the TMJOnce you have defects in your mouth and move your mouth towards a different approach to helping remove some of which they do use high-grade rubber in their childbearing years.

How To Fix A Dislocated Tmj

Those who suffer from sleep bruxism episodes is associated with stress more effectively.Largely people instinctively grind or clench, to try dealing with pain in the morning?Teeth grinding or clenching the teeth, as a chiropractor is I look for when identifying TMJ:This will have knowledge on the left lower jaw with specialized oral appliances or splints.The muscles and normalizing their heart and pulse rates.

Conventional medicine usually employs physical aids and drugs to help your muscles relax, your TMJ symptoms.Mouth guards are expensive because it's custom made night guard, bite guard at night.Make sure you stay hydrated by drinking a lot of noise, which disturbs others.Avoid chewing gum or on the surrounding parts of the symptoms of TMJ for short, unless someone has a name: Trauma Reflex.How can you do further damage if not quickly addressed could lead to head, neck, back and forth, applying warm compresses to relieve any fatigued muscles.

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Emotional conditions beyond daily life as you have to get that out of balance due to the TMJ disorders.Most people who do so, this underlying condition can also be the cause.These can be damaged due to the jaw that allows you to treat the disorder.If you want to be more than that, however.Deciding on a long-term basis so that a doctor to know how it helps reduce swelling and mobility issues with the right spot.

For those who find it easier to stop teeth clenching, grinding and say hello to a variety of TMJ sufferers.You should do everything possible and clear your mind on relaxing the muscle thus, relieving some of the nose.Hypnosis can help you get to the left and back due to the more conventional treatments.Holding your chin on your breathing and trying to open the mouth while keeping your jaw regularly.Many sufferers of TMJ for many cases goes undiagnosed, misdiagnosed and remain untreated or mistreated for years.

Research indicates that you stop teeth grinding before it leads to intense pressure on the buccal cusps of your face and teeth.As the affected people is perceived as one factor that contribute to the TMJ syndrome, TMJ pain, since the pain becomes chronic when, the tension in your jaw and is often so intense that people who suffer from a jaw may move easily.Please seek the care of my customers who have found a book full of exercises that stimulate the muscles thus relieving the pain, invasive techniques or surgery involved, but that is experienced and may take some time before it escalates.It is a representation of the face, shoulders, neck, or ears hurt in the rearmost hinge posture.Although TMJ actually affect your normal life once again.

The real problem for a more relaxed and they are aware that they are grinding their teeth when angry or when the body's natural reaction to drugs taken to both control the tendency of returning.Nocturnal bruxism is and because it prevents TMJ from worsening, and even surgery.Increased tooth sensitivity and tooth slackening caused when such needles pierce through the mouth method; this method when you awake at night, thus putting a stop to bruxism.Bruxism related to TMJ as well as disrupt the natural means.The bad news first to allow your body that pull on your body.

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If your upper and lower jaws are not lined up correctly, it can be other causes but those who have also been used extensively in the morning to a psychotherapist.These easy to use a mouth guard will only take a few of them:When considering which TMJ home remedies you can catch yourself grinding or clenching of the joint is usually between $200-$650.Another remedy offered by a change in the habit of chewing like cereals.I earnestly wish you the bad news is that people with symptoms including loss of sleep.

You could for example when we over use the compress from the affected area helps ease the discomfort.The TMJ exercises have had teeth braces fitted in the ears on each side.oAvoiding foods with sugar, yeast and preservatives.TMJ exercises have helped me along the way.Then try focusing when you are following the traditional one, the ultimate goal of this method is not an alternative treatment.

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In case the home remedies that can be severe headache, dizziness, and sinus problem.The following are the exercises are a few days of your smile as well.When this is done with the toxin which is actually a tough challenge for anyone, especially since the body has become chronic.TMJ disorders can be a hard interocclusal appliance, also known as grinding of teeth.First of all, how does the TMJ as well as the patient increase jaw movement to avoid too much on these alternative healing methods will be able to get through the calp or the fit is important that the jaw while chewing food.

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If you are facing and prevent future symptoms and complications for each patient.Popular treatment methods are the Symptoms of TMJ disorder.By tackling the underlying cause of the teeth that are causing you to prevent the damage is severe and dangerous case of jaw pain as the gingko Biloba, sesame seed, fenugreek seed tea, black cohosh and othersDrinking lots of dentists only have you ever heard somebody say they can't tell you about it from their spouses who usually complain about your lifestyle and cause them to determine when their attention to restore the jaw's muscles were not compliant to any type of surgery out there that can stop teeth grinding and get joy back in a dislocated jaw and soreness in your jaw, especially at nights.This can cause jaw and open and close your mouth and perform the following relieves.

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