Was it obvious what had happened or did your mouth still look relatively normal?

Imagine someone had a stroke on one side of their face. Now imagine that the droopiness only starts at the top of one side of their mouth

Ouch! Sorry, OP! Hopefully you're better now.

How'd you get it back in place?

I read this and I imagined it was in the voice of someone with a dislocated jaw.

#38 I imagine like with most joints you just have to bear with the pain while it is put back into place. I know someone who dislocated their shoulder and even with pain killers it still hurt like hell to get their shoulder put back in.

That is exactly what has to be done. Unless you are at a hospital, where they would likely choose to either anesthesize you or drug you with the strongest pain medication they have at hand. It's preferable to do it under pain medication, even if insufficient to halt pain, to help relax the muscles so the patient doesn't resist the manipulation of the joint as much. Of course, in the case of pain medication, it only helps if they manage to get a line in you before the joint manipulates itself back into place and you don't wind up getting stuck with needles eight times as every nurse in the ER tries and fails to establish an IV.

I imagine you looked like Peter from the episode of Family Guy where your exact description matches what he looked like! Hope everything worked out!

Lol 47. Pain meds to locate a joint. You are funny. Ask an eds person what they do. NOTHING.

I am an EDS person, #53. So, first, you shouldn't go jumping over ledges without knowing what's on the other side. Second, if you actually paid attention to what I wrote, I told you what hospitals prefer to do, to lessen the risk of injuring a patient further and to provide some relief. Three, leaving pain untreated causes cortisol levels to rise which causes all kind of nasty issues that can easily make the issues associated with the condition worse. Four, if by nothing, you also mean not attempting to manipulate the joint back into place, that is risking permanent damage and causes unnecessary prolonging of pain. Five, even if the condition didn't cause dislocations that exacerbate pain, leaving pain untreated and expecting others with the condition to do the same because you do is just plain ridiculous. If you can't treat the cause of an illness, you treat the symptoms in the meantime to give the patient SOME quality of life. To prevent any presumptuous responses from you, the visit I alluded to in my previous post was because my shoulder was dislocated in such a way that blood flow was being restricted to the rest of my arm, and attempts by myself and my mother to manipulate the joint back in place failed. We went to the ER because, to reiterate, the blood flow in my arm was being restricted by the way it had dislocated, likely due to the fact a surgery had been done on the shoulder as a result of misdiagnosis. We expected to have a muscle relaxer given and an orthopedist to place the joint back in place. Instead they- the ER- spent an an hour and a half trying to set up an IV for morphine and taking X-Rays. So stop being so condescending, it really isn't flattering, especially when you do it based off incorrect assumptions and the belief that your method of coping with an illness is the superior method.

A fellow EDSer here, and I have to say that 53s comment was extremely ignorant. I have dislocated my jaw before and it was relatively painless and went back in with some manipulation within an hour, however for a normal person it is pretty much impossible without pain killers and professional help. I'm not sure what you were trying to accomplish with that comment? Trying to suggest that a normal person should "do nothing" is ridiculous.

You poor thing I would have cried from embarrassment

53 needs a visit to the ER for burn treatment

I dislocate my jaw about monthly....heat helps a lot, OP. And arnica gel. It's rough, and will probably dislocate more now that you've done it before.

Ouchies :(

Sounds like you've got your priorities in order....

That's kinda mean, you know that right?

His username is bad boyfriend. Says it all.

I know that phrase all too well!

Do you know their fb page? Its hilarious but in a bad way >

I do believe it is Temporal Mandibular Joint Disorder. Not syndrome. Either way, hope OP is doing well!

Mine is from Ehler's Danlos Syndrome. Different causes- same massive sucky result.