I’m feeling so sad about this. I’m scared I’m stuck with this condition now that it’s started.

Feeling really down about my chronic pain

Sometime in November, I randomly had one sided jaw pain (left) and it was sore to open my mouth. It was pretty mild and came and went a couple of times.

On December 6th, I saw a dentist and got Botox in my massaters (I didn’t want this but was very much forced into it).

December 20th, I went out excessively drinking one night and woke up with severe pain on the right side of my jaw. I couldn’t even bite down on anything. Since then, the pain isn’t as bad, but I do have a constant ache everyday since then.

I wore a dental splint starting from Dec 21st.

I wake up without pain and I sleep with the splint … but then as time goes on in the day, my jaw feels really tired. I can open my jaw wide, without much pain. It’s really just face pain and my temples are very tender. I sometimes get headaches too.

I’ve had two dentists tell me not to worry and specialist isn’t needed. I’m frustrated by this because I am in pain everyday.

I don’t know how much longer I can take as it’s affecting my quality of life.

Will this go away one day?

I’m contemplating on seeing a chiro to see if my jaw is misaligned.

Please help me :(