u/Feisty-Homework-3260

I'm 48(F) ,age doesn't matter ,TMJ can come at any age anytime for male of female, because we are females we are more labelled specially by male doctors with TMJ caused by stress or bruxism , TMJ is complex and everybody's root cause is different , that's why here online everybody gives different advices to try this or that,it's not going by guess , head and neck needs to be scanned by before to decide where to go for treatment and might require multidisciplinary approach , proper diagnosis can't be given online and by guess , cuz might not work , what is working for one doesn't work for the other one,and going for useless doctors or just normal dentists will take lots of money and time for nothing,normal doctors or dentists are not TMJ trained and have lack of knowledge,and can misdiagnose and give wrong treatments causing more harm then relief ,and spending thousands for nothing, that's happened to me,1 year I was going like this back and forwards until I investigated and realised something could be from my neck,I scan my neck at upper cervical chiropractor and I found out actually my TMJ root cause, and came from my upper cervical spine C1 Atlas misalignment,I had no symptoms until 1 year ago when caused me muscular TMJ symptoms,C1 is the first bone under the skull which is connected to the jaws, by muscles,nerves,ligaments etc. I tried everything ,botox,nightguard, self, massages,exercises for jaws and neck,removed wisdom tooth and done root canal treatment, eating soft food ,taking painkillers for nerve pain etc. nothing was working ,until i done a neck scan to find out what is causing my TMJ, C1 misaligment caused all my head, face jaws and neck muscles tightness and stiffness including jaw pain and tinnitus , that's why I make awardness about the upper cervical spine which is ignored together with the TMJ and the connection of both by normal dentists, doctors and surgeons and nobody adviced me to go to upper cervical chiropractor, and in 1 year caused me so many issues and no life and feeling like a disabled,just few weeks ago i was adjusted and since then i go to check if i'm holding this which I do and I just started the healing journey to come out from this nightmare and go back to my previous normal life ,I know it's not a quick fix because who knows how long I was misaligned until symptoms started but I know that i found out what's caused this and I'm doing the correct treatment with the correct professional , for this issue only upper cervical NUCCA ,Blair or Atlas Orthogonal tehnics trained chiropractors are dealing , they are the only ones to realign C1 Atlas or C2 Axis back to normal if this causing the TMJ issues , i'm not a doctor i'm a patient who making awardness for this which can cause long years of TMJ and neck issues without people to realise what can cause this and been told to live with it or just managing the issue with wrong treatments without to cure it,despite showing them my CT scan for head and neck which i did nearly 1 year ago clearly showing my C1 issues ,I was told no further investigation required so I was medically neglected for 1 year and left in the dark to deal with this , that's why i make people aware to check the upper cervical spine before to do other expensive useless treatments , the good news is I'm on my good way of healing from this and i hope this helps other people to find that way too !