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[minkusmum]

Hello everyone. Quite a lot of people on here have written about sore, painful joints but has anyone else ever suffered from a painful jaw? I've had this on and off for a few years, to the extent that sometimes I can't bear to eat anything hard or really chewy. At first I thought it was because I had been chewing too much gum (for tooth health), then I wondered if I had a problem with one of my teeth. Just recently I have been woken up by the pain, which seemed to come from my ear. I was just about to make a doctor's appointment when I put two and two together - the jaw is a kind of joint, so maybe it was the same pain as I get in my knee. I've been rubbing a little bit of the embrocation I use onto the area below my ear and it seems to be helping. Has anyone else had the same thing, and if so what did you do? 

[honeybun]

Yes me, off and on. I have ruled out it being a tooth for now as I can bite and chew with no particular tooth pain.
I thought it might be TMJ but like you I have arthritis in both knees and also my fingers.
I started rubbing Volterole gel on this morning and its been a little better. My jaw clicks quite a bit, so heck knows really.
The pain for me started in front of me ear and travels up the side of my face and also down to my collar bone.

Guess I will have to go to the GP eventually.

Do you clench or grind your teeth. I am a jaw clencher especially when my anxiety is bad.

Lovely this meno stuff and getting older 


Honeyb
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[minkusmum]

  I'm hoping it isn't arthritis! I've been telling myself the aches and pains are just the effects of my body wearing out, which comes to the same thing, I suppose. Even thinking about it makes my jaw ache. I don't grid my teeth, as far as I know. I certainly wouldn't get one of those plastic guards to stop you doing it in the night. My daughter had one and she swallowed it!

[Henrietta]

Hi
Yes I went through a spell of this but HRT seems to have settled the jaw ache. I still ache just about everywhere else but HRT has helped. I also take Calcium, Magnesium, Menopace , Omega Oils so not quite sure but think the HRT is helping Jaw ache the most.

[curlywurly]

Hiya

Another one here who feels as though they have been punched in the mush! 

It's agony sometimes isn't it?  I noticed when I stopped Utrogestan last month (taking 25 out of 28 days) it was even worse.  Taking my last tab tonight for this month so will see if it happens again.

I ache all over though, shoulders, back, jaw, hip, and weirdly today my left ankle!

Oh the joys of menopause!  I did go to a Chiropractor for about a year and I didn't mider my hubby at all to just rub this bit or that (matron).  So it must have helped.  He did my jaw too, just a little tweak and it stopped the clicking. 

I should go back - I will when I get my head around everything else!

Take care

CW
 

Hello everyone. Quite a lot of people on here have written about sore, painful joints but has anyone else ever suffered from a painful jaw? I've had this on and off for a few years, to the extent that sometimes I can't bear to eat anything hard or really chewy. At first I thought it was because I had been chewing too much gum (for tooth health), then I wondered if I had a problem with one of my teeth. Just recently I have been woken up by the pain, which seemed to come from my ear. I was just about to make a doctor's appointment when I put two and two together - the jaw is a kind of joint, so maybe it was the same pain as I get in my knee. I've been rubbing a little bit of the embrocation I use onto the area below my ear and it seems to be helping. Has anyone else had the same thing, and if so what did you do? 

[Joyce]

So many aches & pains we all have. My ankles ache if I sit for too long, my knees creak when I stand too. Pass me the WD40.  Seriously though, this aging isn't too much fun is it.

[minkusmum]

Thanks for all the replies. Somehow nothing feels so bad when you're know you're not the only one. At the moment I'm anointing both sides of my face twice a day and smell like a pharmacy all the time. Gone are the days of Arpège...