Recent content by danielle

Hi @JaneSandyJane , great to hear about your success. Did you ever take the medication that Dr. Steinberg recommends to some clients? It seems she feels it's necessary for some folks at least for a time.

That's great, I will look up your story!

Dr. Sarno talked a lot about repressed rage, and how those of us who are sure we don't have any anger issues, definitely have this. :D I'm sure we can make progress with this jaw stuff. Let's keep going!

That's great to hear, thanks for sharing! Interesting how the grinding didn't start for you until after you started becoming aware of the anger. Really interesting connection. Glad you were able to let it go. Gives me hope!

Good to hear, let's keep up the good work. :)

Hi, no I never did the surgery, I wasn't convinced. I finally have a mouthguard that I can tolerate for now, while I'm coming from other angles. So I'm hopeful! Are you doing TMS work for TMJ?

Hi Fabi, I took a break from the trauma work for a while. Now I'm revisiting it, but from a different place. Not trying hard to dig into the past, but being present as much as I can and letting stuff come up when it's ready. I think I was digging too hard. :P I don't remember when I wrote that...

Thanks Robyn! Love hearing success stories.

OMG Plum thanks so much, this is revolutionary for me. I'm reading an excellent article about the topic: http://portlandtmjclinic.com/for-doctors/occlusion-current-concepts (The Portland TMJ Clinic - Occlusion: Current Concepts) The article is scientific enough and has scientific references...

Brilliant. Especially appreciated this line: "There are people who have terrible bites and have no pain, yet people whose mouths look perfectly fine yet have debilitating TMJ pain." That's kind of exactly what I was looking for, The literature on this phenomenon seems quite scant compared to the...

Thank you Lainey, that is so encouraging. I am starting to feel more hope about the issue than I have in a long time. I really appreciate the perspective.

Plum, thank you so much. This is super helpful. I'm so sorry to hear that you had to go through that fruitless, expensive procedure that sounded so promising. It really helps me in considering (and probably ignoring) my dentist's advice. I will look into Gigalos's posts. Thanks. Over the last...

Kalo thank you SO MUCH for your time and thoughts! Your quotes from the tmj.org site were critical for me to read. I didn't go on those sites because of the usual reasons of avoiding pain forums, but I can't believe how relevant those comments are! They really helped me see the dentist's...

I went to a new holistic dentist recently, to get some fillings repaired (cracked from my many years of TMJ night grinding). We talked about my TMJ causing the wear & cracks. He noticed my overbite and said he’s pretty confident that my TMJ clenching, grinding & pain is because of my bite. My...