[AstroDogCatcher]

Yes. First experienced TMJ pain as a teenager and almost overdosed on painkillers while trying to get rid of it at 3AM. Still recurrs about 2-3 times per year, but I've now learned to feel it coming on much earlier and start loading up on codiene in advance.

[jacobolus]

For other folks not familiar with these abbreviations, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Temporomandibular_joint_dysfun...

[mkl95]

I have been getting it 10+ times a year since my early 20s. Whenever it happens it's as terrifying as the very first time.

[PaulHoule]

I had it a long time and was not sure the pain was localized in the jaw (was it the neck, shoulders, back?) or even the extent to which there was a physical lesion or it was how my brain was interpreting things.

My dentist told me I was grinding my teeth and prescribed a bite guard and within two weeks the pain got better but became very definitely focalized in the jaw and I noticed ‘popping’ as a symptom.

It has been about 1.5 years since the diagnosis. last summer I went through a phase of throwing a lot of random food into a pot and hitting it with an immersion blender, getting shakes from Burger King whenever I felt like it, etc. I lost almost 20 kg.

I have been eating more normally since, it doesn’t bother me very often.