I never knew how to explain what I have. This is it. This dysfunction is hell because to treat it for good, u need to treat anxiety (I try).
I had surgery on both sides 5 years ago and still suffer with it.
I'm on eternal treatment, thanks to anxiety.
In pandemic = hell. https://twitter.com/PFDentistSydney/status/1293743993277173760

I've always clenched my jaw and had no idea, this made my disc out of place (that's why the surgery), and my face muscles feels like pieces of rocks. My treatment includes: botox once a year to soften the muscles near my ear, medication for anxiety, to sleep,

When it hurts I need to take another medication and I sleep with a bruxism plate and also wear it 24/7 because that's my level of anxiety.
I hear poorly from my left ear, it's always giving me a weird sensation and it also causes migraines and a lot of pain in the ear.

Why am I posting all of this? Because I wish someone did it before and I could have read it and be alert sooner and not found out when I yawned and had to go to the hospital and 2 months later, go into an extremely dangerous surgery.

If u clench ur jaw, if u hear cracks around ur ear, if u feel like someone were trying to press a stick inside ur ear, if u feel a desperate need to bite something hard (that's bruxism) and of ur head gives u pain near ur ear and on the sides of ur forehead, it's nice to look for

A bucomaxillary doctor,specialized in bruxism, temporomandibular dysfunction joint. I did here in Brazil and found the best one. I'm sure there are great doctors out there that will know how to help.
Maybe u know someone in this situation, or u are... So there is it

This thread is to reach people and maybe this is what they need to know. We usually have something and have no idea that we do, so check yourself, see if everything is ok and then, look for a doctor.