Ack! If you're still having jaw pain and horrible popping, I'd suggest googling the phrase "temperomandibular joint dysfunction" — it's really common in people with hypermobility and other joint issues — and maybe stop trying to open your mouth that far just to see if you can. Overopening is one of the worst things you can do to exacerbate it and increase the chances of actual dislocation. The muscles need to rest and relax to help your jaw settle back where it's supposed to be; there are exercises you can do to keep it in neutral, such as pressing the tip of your tongue directly behind your upper front teeth and letting your jaw relax/drop gently by itself within that limit, i.e. with your tongue acting as a tether so you don't overopen. If it's TMD, and it sounds like it is, muscle relaxants always help, and heat applied to the neck and shoulders as well as the jaw itself. And if you do see someone about it, a specialty TMD dentist would probably be more helpful to you than a doctor, unless you have a specialist you're seeing for your joints. Good luck, and I hope the academic stuff *lets* you relax! I know at least two people who got TMD along with a PhD. >.> Would be preferable to be a jawless skull...
Ahh thank you, this is so sweet of you. I've looked into TMD a bit before actually, so there's probably something to it. And don't worry, I haven't been pushing it! I just went back and re-worded that tag lol - what I had originally said there was "if I open my mouth very wide" but what I meant was more along the lines of "if I open my mouth much at all" (I feel like maybe that's a grammatical regionalism because the more I stare at it the more I'm like "why do I say it like that?")
I hadn't thought about doing heat on my neck/shoulders though, I'll have to try that one! I've been taking magnesium glycinate for jaw clenching and general muscle tension for quite a while now and it has for sure been helping, I can definitely tell a difference the next day when I forget to take it. One of my other medications gives me some wicked jaw clenching if I take it too frequently, but I've mostly figured out how to walk that line and haven't had that issue for a bit, and that one's a very different kind of pain - that's an intense ache along my cheekbone whereas this is more of a stab in joint itself and an inability to fully bite down. I was using a nightguard that my dentist recommended for a while, but the super obnoxious thing is that I actually don't clench my jaw when I'm sleeping. Sleeping makes it WAY better! I only do it when I'm awake 🙃 I'm actually due for a dentist visit soon so good timing, I suppose!
But oof, I absolutely believe that about the PhD to TMD pipeline. When I was finishing up my first master's program we had to do a portfolio that, in hindsight, was objectively bonkers - to give you an idea, the portfolio I just submitted was 26 pages... the other one was 339 and they sprang it on us as a new requirement with about 8 weeks' notice 💀 anyway! I had an awful ulcerative colitis flare during the latter half of that semester - probably totally unrelated to the stress, right? 🙄
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babes why don't you think you'll ever be in a relationship? ur breaking my heart here reading ur tags
skip to the tags for the short answer lmaooooooo
breaking your heart? secretly in love with me??? 😧😶🌫️ but aaahhhhhhh 😮💨💕
i'm aromantic 😭😭😭 i'm not sure that i've ever felt romantic attraction, nor even know what it is, so it's a bit difficult to say otherwise and i just realized this year. 😔 i mean when i think about it most of the "crushes" i've had are mainly centered around sexual attraction/infatuation/lust or whatever you want to call it lmaooo....i care for the person, it just never dawns on me that i want anything with them in a romantic sense, i'm wayyy too nonchalant for that honestly and everyone deserves the best, which is most definitely not me lmaoo 😭 like i've never even thought about it because for me it's like.....i would only be in a relationship if i know for sure i could be committed to building a future with them for life, or honestly i would probably be down for a relationship if they wanted. like why not i guess which....is also a problem because then it gets considered as settling lmaooo which for me it most definitely is not..
the only thing that i might be inclined to say is slightly close to romantic attraction that i experience is limerence. but it's not like....from a place of love. 😭😭😭 now that i think of it it's probably like, having intrusive thoughts of a person. it's just all the time and as much as i try to stop i can't and it sucks because i do actually care about the person for who they are but obviously that makes it seem otherwise 😭😭😭
it's weird to explain. i do want a relationship and i do want to build a future with someone special where i could support their goals and they are able to be emotionally open with me but i don't have to be emotionally open with them and we can cuddle and watch shitty ass med shows with the worst fucking cpr but, i'm super picky and have extremely high standards lmaooo like is it really realistic.....girl........be real 😭😭😭😭😭😭 i get on my last goddamned NERVE
and then it's like, i already know that i'll be paranoid probably and most likely won't be satisfied because i'm not sure that anyone's love will be enough for me. (quote in my ul tag)
and at the end of the day (finally right? lmaoooo) it's like morally i don't want to play with or hurt anyone's feelings.
like all of this is mine alone to deal with and it's things that i should handle and work through before even considering a relationship but realistically i'm not sure that i can fast enough sooooooooo 😔
i'm sorry my tags probably come off as some edgy loser (which i am mind you ☝️😈) but don't feel bad don't let my tags break your heart omggg 😭😭🥺💖 i'm just some guy that's a son's son daughter. 😭😭 i keep myself in a loop of extreme self-criticism for minimal growth lmaoooo i'm okay (trust me 🫡).
maybe i shouldn't've said never but like....extremely unlikely. like...99% chance that i won't. love really isn't something that happens to people like me which is....ok! it's still a joy to see it happen for other people 😌💕🥰🤍💗💕
anyways fuck it we ball 🥱💯💪😈⏭️⏫🥶
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It really makes me sick to see people giving money to penny weeklies when Franklin's expedition STILL has not been found 😭 There are good men out there trapped in unimaginable temperatures and literally all that's needed is a little more funding for another rescue mission yet all you guys seem to care about are your vulgar little stories...
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the franklin expedition is dead as hell
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Disgraceful thing to say but I'd expect nothing more from a M*lville fan
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👨🏻❤️💋👨🏻 hartgrindisreal
Sorry for posting so much about Tom Gradgrind/James Harthouse from Hard Times lately. It turns out that I was getting arsenic poisoning from my wallpaper? Anyway I took a seaside stroll and I'm normal now. Check your walls y'all
#whyyy did i assume they were committing unlawful actions together like where did i even get that from lol #hard times isn't even that good by dickens standards tbh
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Just painted this
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RIP Napoleon... you may have been unable to conquer Alexander's Russia but you sure as hell conquered Alexander's bed
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HERITAGE POST
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How does this have less than 100k notes you could literally not avoid this post back in the 20s lol
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poets just aren't dying young in mysterious water-related incidents like they used to :/
#as useless and degenerative as i find 'the living poets' and i'm glad we're finally moving on from them #i have to agree with op in this respect
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I finally got a daguerreotype of myself ^_^ Porcelain urn for scaling
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i think i hauve consumption
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They found oil in the ground??? WTF. THIS IS LITERALLY THE WORSTTTT. FUCK MY LIFE FOR REAL THIS TIME
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I swear this website has 0 reading comprehension skills. Darwin NEVER claimed we "evolved" from apes like if one of you guys actually bothered to open his new book you'll see all his arguments are backed up by evidence. He actually makes a lot of sense
#sure there's nuance like i don't fully agree with all of it #but his general theory of natural selection seems pretty sound imo
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Of course these are the finalists lmao this website is so predictable. Anyway vote Heathcliff if you dont i'm going to assume you're a phrenologist
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It's not problematic to acknowledge the fact that Heathcliff was a brute like he literally killed dogs in case you forgot. #rochestersweep
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I love the implication here that Rochester never did anything cruel either. He literally locked his wife in the attic and lied to Jane about it 😭 like that was a pretty significant thing that happened
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And? God forbid women do anything
#why'd you have to pit two bad bitches against each other #anyway i'm not attracted to men but still went with rochester #bc in terms of living quarters thornfield hall > wuthering heights easily
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👨🏻❤️💋👨🏻 hartgrindisreal
Not the Russian tsar dying immediately after hartgrind became canon
#i know dickens hasn't technically confirmed it yet but like. SOMETHING was strongly implied ok #see: my previous post #dickensposting
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👨🏻❤️💋👨🏻 hartgrindisreal
LORD HELP ME. THE BODY LANGUAGE. THE WAY THEY'RE LOOKING AT EACH OTHER. AHHHHHH
#this installment!!! im-- #dickensposting #i can't fucking cope #dickens wants to KILL us he wants us DEAD....
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⭐️ newamerican
Hi guys sorry I haven't been posting lately it's been so difficult getting to California 💀 I'm finally here now though just need to find a pickaxe and soon I'll be digging! :-) wish me luck lol
#gold #gold rush #gold rush grind #california #adventure
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