My flu is better and my son has recovered from his temporary alshiemers. He gave me the strawberry twizzlers i had asked for yesterday. I can not chew them. My jaw hurts. Very sore and weak feeling. Like how my knees feel when the swelling goes down they still ache if i walk on them. I have had a swollen face for a few weeks now. Oh well i can not chase men all of the time. It is my fav hobby. The back of my mouth the jaw. It was inflammed upper and lower inside of my mouth really badly for a few days but cleared up on it's own. I can breath fine and have no headache. Not all but alot i guess of the swelling has gone down in my face. Sons girl commented on how much better it looked last night. And now i can not even eat my licorice. RA in the jaw stinks.
They're sure it's not TMJ? Have you checked out the symptoms for that yet?
Really i do not know for sure what it is. I was just tired of it. Whatever it is. I want my face back. VENT!!! VENT!!!! This being patient thing is ARGGG some days. So boo hoo for me. I will live through it. Just saying i do not just always have a rose colored glasses approach to this. Some days it makes me mad. I think thats alright to get mad some days. I am pretty much over my temper tantrum of the day. Sort of. I feel better than i felt a week ago. I should be patient i am getting better. I just do not like what i see when i look in the mirror. I do not know that person. I did want to say thank you to everyone that replied. I want to make it clear i am angry about the illness not anyone else. Oh i have been dealing with the hairloss scince i took the Arava. So the Mtx does not have alot to do to me if it chooses to. I have a bit of a belly coming on from the depomedrol shot. My face is swollen from either the pred or the jaw problem not sure and i have skin issues. My vanity is hurting big time. I will just have to learn to deal with it. I have been taking biotin and now folic acid. Surely my face will look better someday. But i clearly love all of you on the board unconditionally. Just want to make that clear. And you help and opinions are always so welcome.I have had alot of jaw issues. I thought it was TMJ so I got a mouthguard. My regular dentist ended up sending me to a specialist. After x-rays, he noted quite a bit of jaw deterioration. He says it is most definitely RA. So, I have a different type of mouth guard. He said that there is not much else to do. In the past, he says that they would have gone in and cleaned up the joint. Now he says they are leaning away from that since it appears to have not made a difference on patients. I do get cortisone shots there every 6 months.Milly, my face swells and jaw kills, gums swell and throb when I've got a really bad sinus infection coming.Where do you get the cortisone shot? I mean in your jaw or your behind? Doc said he would put cortisone shot in my knees if i want. I would let them put the shot in my jaw if that would make me beautiful again. Did your face swell?The jaw issue seemed to sneak up on me slowly over time. I didn't realize it was swollen until the the oral surgeon (named Dr. Kevorkian-scary huh?) had me bring an old picture into my appointment. He took one at the office. It wasn't so much swollen-it was like the shape of my face had changed.