Article: Periodontists + Jawbones = Migraines?

http://www.courant.com/features/lifestyle/hc-headaches.artjun22,0,2228672.story

This article is from the Hartford Courant, and discusses how it can be the jaw alignment that could be causing migraines (the periodontist first mentioned even thinks that King Tut suffered from a jaw alignment problem, causing him severe headaches!).

It’s an interesting read.  I have already visited a TMJ/myofacial pain specialist and had a night guard made because he said that I grind my teeth at night.  I wore the thing for a year and a half straight with no difference. I still have it, of course, but it would just suck the moisture out of my mouth within the first minute of having it in, and I just haven’t been wearing it because I haven’t felt that it was helping me at all.   BUT, you never know — the answer for some people could be as simple as a visit to the dentist

 

I feel like I wrote this article…

. . . “If you judge these medications on their ability to cure my headache, all failed. If you judge them on their ability to deliver a string of bizarre and unpleasant effects, however, then they were a rousing success! One caused my heart to slow significantly, so that if I exerted myself by, for example, walking several paces, my vision would swim (inconvenient, as walking several paces was a big part of my life back then). Another scrambled my sense of time, giving me the sensation that I was continually shifting several seconds into the future and waiting for the rest of humanity to catch up to me. For the record, imaginary trips several seconds into the future have nothing much to offer, aside from feelings of stark terror.” . . .

This excerpt is from a NY Times article written by a man who has been suffering from chronic headaches for 20 years. The way in which he writes this article makes me feel as if I could have been a contributing writer, or could have even written it myself. It certainly is something that I could even see, as a person suffering from this kind of pain, giving this article to the people I am friends with/work with so that they know what I deal with daily to help them better understand my experience. It’s also a funny article, which helps. When you have any type of chronic health problem, humor is something that everyone needs.