update

See, the thing is, I’ve basically had a headache since July. First I saw my neurologist, who sent me to my regular doctor, who sent me to my dentist, who sent me to a specialist. The specialist finally sent me to the orthodontist I had in middle school.

See, the thing is, the orthodontist just told me that my options are: permanent orthodontics, jaw surgery, or to keep doing what I’ve been doing. The specialist created a mouthpiece that corrects my bite and I wear it every night, and during the day when I feel I need to. What I’m doing right now is treating the symptom – which, yay, that’s great when everything’s awesome. That doesn’t help my stress headaches, or my migraines – just the headaches that are from the TMJ.

I had braces in middle school and wore the rubberbands 23 hours a day. I had a permanent retainer on the lower jaw; it was removed so I could have an MRI for my migraines and never put back. Did that lead to this current problem? Who the fuck knows.

So, permanent orthodontics, jaw surgery, or just keep treating the symptom. Because my bite is pretty terrible, even if the teeth themselves seem to be fine. According the specialist, I’m an “interesting case” and difficult to treat because my tongue is kinda big and my teeth are kinda small. Gotta love being the interesting case, right?

I’m just so tired of my head hurting.