I have had tmj for about 40 + years. It is usually caused from clenching and grinding your teeth. You might want to get a mouth guard to sleep with. I have been going to the same chiropractic clinic for approximately 30 years now. They use accupressure on the seized up muscles and once the muscle releases they slide my jaw back into position. This lasts for a couple of years if I am not going through a lot of stress. I feel that my chiropractor keeps me walking!

Dentist wants you to wear mouthguard. I tried that and sometime during nite it comes off and i throw it HA!

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It was an oral surgeon who did them. Yes, most definitely jaw would go out of alignment when sleeping, or awake. Using a mouth guard helps to slow process down, but I left it way too long.

Hope you get all the help you need and pray it works to prevent you having surgery.

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I had TMJ in both joints. Got to the point I couldn't open my mouth. Dentist sent me to dental surgeon and ended up having surgery in the hospital with both joints being fixed. That was a good 20 years ago. Past couple of years I have a bit of discomfort but nothing to complain of.

Above suggestions are all great ones and I pray that you find something that helps to make you more comfortable. Surgery as last resort as it is fairly painful and uncomfortable. At least for myself as both were done at same time.

I know someone who has tmj and takes celebrex and uses cannabis.