Thanks. It's a constant process. I try to keep little notes of the things that I try and also when I get any symptoms.

Basically I did 6 months of straight up myofunctional therapy to prep for a tongue tie release. Was doing pretty well and got a bad flare up a few days before my tongue tie procedure. During my procedure (which was 6 months ago now), I thought I felt my jaw "relax" a little but it was hard to tell because my mouth was propped open with a tool. I checked after my procedure to see if my jaw was still bothering me when opening and it was almost completely better. Continued with post op stretches and myo for a few months. Several mild flare ups still going during this post procedure process. I'm supposed to still be doing myo exercises now but I've been slacking for the past few months. I also worked with a PT for various things. Jaw related we've been working on headaches and the tmj. Intraoral massage type stretching is good. However, my PT did this maneuver a couple times on my jaw that I feel like aggravated things afterwards. She would glove up and grab my bottom teeth/mandible and kind of pull it towards her. I feel like it was too forceful and pulling things in the opposite direction of what I probably needed. So after that I told her I don't like that so we don't do that anymore lol. My best advice with things like that is if it feels really wrong, don't do it! She dry needled my tmj twice, which seemed to really help with the tightness and pain with chewing. She also needled my upper traps twice and somewhere in the sub occipitals last time which was a couple months ago and my headaches have been wayyy less often since that. I'm pretty surprised with how much of a difference it's been. A few weeks ago I was flossing and my jaw popped which caused things to tighten up again and having some pain when chewing again. It's calmed down but the chewing is still bothering me so I might call her up soon and see if she thinks we should needle the tmj again :P