Re: jaw pain while drinking

In article <1166418288.579485.82110@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
<adremeaux@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Jason Johnson wrote:
In article <1166412750.176190.248020@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
adremeaux@xxxxxxxxx wrote:

I have no idea if this is the right place to post this, but it's my
best guess. Let me know if I'd get better help elsewhere.

There's a weird thing that runs in my family where, when we drink any
kind of alcohol while eating, the intake of alcohol causes extreme,
sharp pain at the cusp of our jaw, on both sides. Any idea what this
is, or how to deal with it? It's actually kind of weird, because both
my father and (totally unrelated, obviously) mother suffered this, not
just one. I think I have it worse than both of them. I'd love to be
able to drink wine or beer with a meal or something, so it'd be awesome
to find a treatment.

Again, sorry if this is the wrong place for this.

-andy

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andy,
I am not a doctor but will take a guess. I took a class related to
genetics while I was a college student. We learned in that class that
various disorders
can be passed from one generation to the next generation. For example,
my next door neighbor has a small hump in her back.
She told me that several of her ancestors had the same hump. It's my guess
that the jaw defect is like the hump in my neighbor's back. In other words,
it's a gene related problem. You may want to ask your doctor whether or not
your jaw can be repaired. In order for it to be repaired, the doctor may have
to break your jaw and reset the bones. My nose was broken and that it how the
doctor repaired it. He broke it and placed a plastic cast on it. It caused me
lots of pain while it was healing.
Jason
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I'm sure it *is* genetic, but it doesn't seem like something that would
be helped by breaking... it seems more muscle related to me, or some
weird nerve thing, as the pain is a direct and symmetrical result of
alcohol after/during food intake.

Andy, please ignore Jason. He is not a doctor, and has no medical
training. He is, however, an idiot who adds nothing to discussions.
I don't know the answer to your problem either, but at least I won't
write a very long paragraph telling you that.

-- David Wright :: alphabeta at prodigy.net
These are my opinions only, but they're almost always correct.
"If George Bush were my dad, I'd be drunk in public so often that
James Baker would have me killed." -- Bill Maher on the Bush twins
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