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Question:
Here is my avalanche of questions:
Does your neck ever hurt? Not the back bumpy part where the spine
is, but on the left side of your neck, below your ears, and underneath
your jaw? As if you had swollen glands from the flu? And the glands
really are swollen and tender? Only it seems to come and go throughout
the day? And
sometimes it seems to affect the whole back of your head, and sometimes
your collar bone and shoulder are sore? And your ears ring like
crazy? And you get this funny little sore throat that comes and
goes? And sometimes it makes your whole lower jaw very tender, and even
your cheeks? And your ears feel full and hurt. And it all comes
and goes and moves around in intensity? And when you open your mouth,
you hear your left jaw "click" and the right one "pop"? And one minute
you feel okay, then the next minute you feel all clammy like you've got
the flu, but you actually have a sub-temp? And sometimes when you
press on the side of your neck, it feels like the muscles in there are
absolutely rock-hard, but an hour from now they feel okay....but then an
hour later there are those swollen glands again....and an hour later
anywhere you press on the back of the neck or base of the skull is sore.
I've been having this for about 10 days
now - could this be fibro-related?
Answer:
I have had similar experiences, yes, on the left side as well, left tonsil was swollen too, but no elevated temperature.
I'd suggest that you see a doctor for the TMJ symptoms. I had my left
jaw pop completely out of joint and I had one doozy of a time getting it
back in. I had my teeth pulled about eight years ago and have never had
a TMJ spell since. My son was in braces for a while because his molars
were popping his jaw out because they didn't match right.
I occasionally have hot, hard pains on one side of my neck or the other
but it usually makes my tongue on that side hurt so bad it hurts to even
talk.
I wish I could tell you what it is, but I
can't. I have had this same pain for 3 years now. Doctors are clueless
which leaves me clueless. The pain I have in my neck area is terribly
excruciating. I can only describe it as bone on bone pain, if that makes
since. My ears cause me deep, sharp pains almost daily. Nothing I have
tried takes the ear pains away, but I do take Fioricet and darvocet-n for
the pain in my neck/head shoulders area. These 2 meds together work good
for numbing my neck pain. At times I think it dulls the ear pain to a point
where I am ok with it.
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