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Ariel

My story is too long for this site, however here it is, short and to the point. I have had 18 TMJ surgeries. I had the Vitek implanted and yes it did damage. I have had rib grafts and the story goes on and on. I have had doctors tell me there is not such thing as TMJ and one even said I was faking the pain for attention and another said I was doing it for drugs.

My last surgery was in August of 2002. I had the Christensen total joints implanted bilaterally. In June of 2005 I was attending an Indian Fever basketball game (WNBA) when my jaw popped as I closed my mouth. The pain shot through me so severely that I had to go to the first aid station at the Conseco Fieldhouse. I ended up in the ER at a local hospital and the doctors claimed they had never seen a joint replacement of the jaw. They called upon a local oral surgeon to help me. Since the basketball game this problem has occurred five more times. Please think before having any surgery on your TMJ. The ringing is so bad today that the phone rang and I thought it was the ringing in my ears. Now I’m back in pain and facing my TMJ alone for the first time in my life as my husband of 29 ½ years passed away March 2005 while battling cancer.

God bless you and may he give you pain free days. My faith and my love for the Lord keeps me going and as bad as things get I still see light at the end of the tunnel.

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