Hi
I have had horrible inflammation the TMJ. The first time it happened, it lasted for months and was very severe. I couldn't open my mouth more than one finger width for more than a year. My rheumy said it was not my AS. (I had an oral surgeon telling me that I needed surgery. ) My rheumy sent me to Boston to see Dr. Anderson, a nationally noted Rheumy for a second opinion and he said that AS could definitely do that to my jaw and that is what I was dealing with.
I use heat and ice, heat temporarily reduces pain, ice reduces the inflammation, in the mean time, hang in there.
MM
MelodyMaker
