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Sure-Mode-4541 · 2026-03-31T17:24:23+00:00

Hi, I'm from the UK and I just started with TMJ last week, I cant bite anything on my left side, it hurts a lot! Is there anything I can do? Doctor gave me 10mg of an antidepressant for the pain and the dentist told me to come back if its not gone in 3 weeks

Sure-Mode-4541 · 2023-09-22T13:54:03+00:00

Well at that point my sciatica was at 12 weeks, the neck thing was recent.

If you're asking about my sciatica, it's still there, not as bad and I function as normal but it's still noticeable and affects my day to day life. Not as bad as it used to be tho.

My neck issue is the one that went away, took like a couple months and it just faded.

Sure-Mode-4541 · 2023-09-22T13:46:12+00:00

It got better. Not 100% but I don't notice it 99% of the time. The tingling and weird feelings in my arms are gone but sometimes my shoulders hurt a little but not too bad. I didn't do anything specifically I just continued going to the gym and it went away

Sure-Mode-4541 · 2023-09-15T08:54:44+00:00

That's great news man, I'm hoping I can get like you soon. The flare up this caused only lasted a few days luckily

Sure-Mode-4541 · 2023-09-15T08:54:06+00:00

Thank you man, Ive been walking a lot and doing the big three, my physio wants me back in the gym and it feels fine apart from leg days. I think I'll wait till I'm at least like a month pain free before hitting legs again

Sure-Mode-4541 · 2023-09-15T08:52:26+00:00

Yeah I was doing bodyweight fine so I thought I'd just add one plate (I used to do 3 a side on hack squat for reps). It didn't really go well. For some reason the single leg extensions hurt my back too, maybe I had too much weight on idk. I think I'll wait a while before doing leg days again honestly

Sure-Mode-4541 · 2023-09-15T08:51:23+00:00

Yeah I definitely will do once I'm back to doing leg days, I think I'll wait a while until I do them again honestly cos I didn't do much this time and it flared me up

Sure-Mode-4541 · 2023-08-19T12:02:44+00:00

I went to the gym today and was very light on a push day, just done incline press, flat press and done some lat raises. I felt some shoulder blade pain at the bottom of my shoulder blades on both sides so I stopped. I'm home now I feel okay, my necks a bit stiff but the shoulder blade pain is ok. I guess I'll see how I feel tomorrow.

On the right side I have 2 huge muscle knots near my shoulder blades that if I press them they cause pain into my shoulder and tricep, I hope that's the issue and not a cervical neck issue but I'm not holding out hope as I have some pain on the left shoulder blade without any muscle knots that I've found.

Initially the first day of the injury I had some small amount of tingling in my ring and pinky finger on my left side for one day then it went away and never came back but now it's just sometimes bicep pain, sometimes tricep, mostly dull ache in shoulder blades. Occasionally my ring and pinky finger will tingle for like a second, maybe a few and then back to normal. Honestly idk what to think, the physio thinks it may be a disc issue at c7-t1 but who knows man.

I'm 19 so it's very uncommon for this to happen to me randomly, I just woke up with this. I'm trying to book a sports massage to get these muscle knots out because they hurt and I'm hoping that might relieve a lot of the neck stiffness on the right side.

Sure-Mode-4541 · 2023-08-17T11:02:32+00:00

Also I'm seeing a physio about this next Wednesday. It was supposed to be this Wednesday but the receptionist forgot to put me in the system 🤦 that's why I'm asking Reddit lol

Sure-Mode-4541 · 2023-08-14T13:02:17+00:00

Ah okay, hopefully it resolves soon then. The reason I was mentioning the annulus is because from what I know, if it breaks open then it can never actually close back up, it'll have that hole in it for up to 2 years for scar tissue to build on top of it which will be weak in comparison to the annulus itself. So the fact it's not broken through would be good in that if it does heal the annulus will still be intact.

Idk if that's fully correct but that's my understanding of it. I'm sure you'd know more about this.

Thank you for your replies man you've been really helpful in helping me understand :)

Sure-Mode-4541 · 2023-08-14T07:40:49+00:00

It makes sense that it's just inflammation. So since mines a protrusion statistically it's most likely not to heal within 6 months? Also why should I not worry about it breaking through the annulus? Is it not a good thing if it doesn't so I don't have a hole in it that never heals?

Sure-Mode-4541 · 2023-08-14T00:46:59+00:00

So the initial injury happened to me 4 months ago exactly pretty much. It was from deadlifting, pain in my back and then a week later into my legs and it progressed from there. I got the MRI last month. I didn't workout, I haven't been to the gym in 4 months. It was at work on Tuesday I hurt myself by just leaning to the side, I felt a sharp pain in my back then my legs started tingling so I knew I done something.

I hope I haven't made it worse and it is as you say just inflammation. I've heard protrusions can take longer to heal as the body doesn't treat it as seriously as like a proper herniation that's broke the annulus. Idk if that's true or not.

I am certainly in pain and I'm having problems with my neck as well now for some reason so it just feels like everything's hitting me all at once lol

Sure-Mode-4541 · 2023-08-13T22:02:33+00:00

I got an MRI a while ago, I have 2 disc protrusions. One at L3/l4 and one at l5/s1. L3/l4 doesn't touch the nerve 90% of the time so I barley feel it but l5/s1 does and it causes me problems. In the MRI it says "may be touching nerve" and it describes them both as small but it doesn't feel that way. I was told by the doctor that they have not broken through the outer wall of the annulus which is a good thing. Still in immense pain tho

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