What is THIS??

I have been getting severe stabbing pain in my jaw - feels like it is right under my skin like it's a nerve or something like that.  I have had this happen before but didn't happen very often and it would happen a few times over about an hour and then disappear.  It was always in the same spot.  Now it seems to be higher up on my jaw instead of on my chin and it isn't going away.  It is sore to the touch and feels like an electric shock.  I am also developing a cold and GOD FORBID I SNEEZE!!  That just about puts me thru the roof with pain shooting thru my jaw.  Is this what is called myofascial pain (sp?) - or some type of nerve pain related to fibro??  Anybody have something similar to this?

This could be TMJ that is affecting you.  Myofascial pain doesn't have anything to do with the face.  I thought it did because of the name but then I researched it and it has to do with the fascia that is part of the muscle.

 

If this continues, you might want to see your dentist and see what they have to say about it.

 

Sherrine

I would see a dentist. I have TMJ, and it doesn't really sound like it to me. It may affect everyone differently, but, with me, it is this really deep aching pain all along my jaw bone, especially up in the joints, and when it is really bad, my jaw cracks every time I open and close my mouth. It sounds to me like you have a nerve in your mouth that is being affected somehow. I would go to a dentist, and if they find nothing wrong, talk to your doctor. Sorry I don't have better advice for you.

After reading about trigeminal neuragia it sounds like almost exactly the type of pain that I am having. It feels like an electric shock exactly as they describe. I have an appointment with my GP next week so I will bring it up to him. This is the first time that it has hung around for more than a day. It has now been three days and I can't touch my face in that area or I get a shock like feeling. What do you do for treatment? It sounds like there are a few choices but do any of them really help short of surgery?  How bad do you have it? Does it get worse and spread to other areas so more than one place - like your entire face/head hurt? That would be horrible to have that electric shock feeling going on all over - it takes my breath away from just the one little area that mine is occurring in. 

He ignored me like usual and said I must have done something to irritate my jaw.  That was the end of the conversation.  He then asked me how my depression was doing.  WHAT DEPRESSION? I haven't seen him in a long time since he is my general practitioner here in town. I went thru the Mayo clinic's fibro program this  summer and before that I was seen by a rheuematologist at Mayo last spring. Since then I have been seeing a psychiatrist here in town - he's in charge of getting my meds straight. I hate saying that. It sounds like I am a head case! I am now switching doctors.  I am fed up with him and his nurse.  The nurse has told me that I just have "live with it" and before I was diagnosed she told me that "maybe it's just age" - I am 35!! All he wanted to do in the first place was load me up on more anti depressants - like most doctors that think we are crazy.

I am actually going back on lyrica.  I don't have any diagnosis for my jaw pain but that should help with the nerve pain I guess.  I am going back on lyrica - I call it my FAT PILL - because Cymbalta and Savalla did nothing for my pain.  When I get my new general practitioner - who has been recomended to me by another fibro patient- I will discuss with her the jaw pain thing.  I will probably be seeing her within the next month - as soon as I start swelling up from the lyrica.  I guess I might get an Rx for a water pill this time if I swell like I did last time.  That's what the pyschiatrist said anyway.

It just is a never ending battle. 

Hi Anstar,

Try to get your cymbalta, I understand that running out can be very difficult. Withdrawal symptoms are bad. Can you get some samples to tide you over? Be careful.

I hope that you don't have to deal with that. Maybe you haven't been on them long enough for the withdrawal. You should always taper with this medication. Let the doctor know that you are out.

Hugs, Karen