Hi!
Sherry - I'm glad you had a good visit w/ the NPs - I really generally prefer to see NPs or Physician Assistants -they are usually much more willing to listen to you. Although my PCP is good- she is easy to talk to and listens to you - but the office is just terrible....(more on that below)
Speaking of dentists - I did have a dentist make a mouth guard for me although I never wear it and I think I really didn't need it - I think he just wanted to make a buck on the deal...LOL!
But - my daughter went to the dentist on Monday for a cleaning and now she has a swollen tonsil w/ white crud in it (she says it is a "tonsil stone") while everything I read indicates that you don't get it if from going to the dentist, I think it is too much of a coincidence. Also, since I went I have had a bunch of canker sores. I haven't had an outbreak of them in a long time - so I wonder if my mouth got irritated from the cleaning. It is a necessary evil to go though b/c if you don't go you just end up with other issues. I am going in on Monday for a replacement of an old crown. Let us hope it goes smoothly!!
I hope you feel better soon - maybe you can find a better TMJ specialist - it sounds like this one isn't very good. Can you live w/out a mouth guard until you get in to see someone else or would that just make it worse?
Hang in there.
Donna
Oh - my daughter called the PCP to go in to have her tonsil looked at - and they won't see her - they say it is a COVID symptom so she can't go to the dr - this is insane! So she is going to Minute Clinic tomorrow - yes, in CVS where anyone can walk in w/ COVID. I think this is getting ridiculous with the PCPs that won't see you if you are sick - the symptoms of COVID are the symptoms of a bunch of illnesses - and COVID is here to stay, it is not going away we have to live with it and we can't go to Urgent Care, the ER, Minute Clinic etc every time we are sick. There is no continuity of care - and I am willing to bet the PCP does not even know she had Mono since that was diagnosed in an ER visit. So frustrated. I was looking into changing doctors b/c of this - but I think they all are like this around here. So basically, around here, you can only go to the PCP for well visits -