Other TMJ Symptoms

All the muscles in your body are connected. If one gets tense, all the muscles around it become tense too. For example, you've probably felt your shoulders and neck get stiffer when your TMJ grows worse. But there are other muscles in the body that are not as obvious. You may not have noticed all the small muscles in your head that can be affected. Your throat muscles, eye muscles, tongue,and forehead muscles. There are muscles all over the place and these muscles all get stiff too.

As this tension builds up little by little, you'll begin to feel the secondary symptoms of TMJ including the following;

• Voice fluctuations


• Difficulty swallowing


• Bloodshot eyes


• Tongue pain


• Balance problems, "vertigo", dizziness, or disequilibrium


• The feeling of a foreign object in the throat


• Clogged, stuffy, "itchy" ears, feeling of fullness


• Watery eyes