Hi:
This is my 1st post here in the Wellness: Wrecked & Bonkers Forum. I didn't know it was here! Wow I'm glad I do now. I cannot thank Lettucehead enough for letting me know this place exists!
As for TMD, I don't know but I do have pretty bad TMJ in both sides and w/Lupus (SLE), Sjogren's Disease, & Fibromyalgia - all of which are tied in some fashion or manner along with making inflammation elsewhere in my body much, much, much worse. In addition, I have
The only time I tend to notice any problems with TMJ that may be e-cig related is when I attempt to use a cartomizer that has too hard of a draw from being used too long at a time. My way of working around this by making it affordable is to
buy the bulk carto deal at
Crystal Clear Vaping The ones I get come with 15 cartos in 3 packs. I use
My Freedom Smoke e-liquids too. If a carto gets a tough draw, you can try
The Plunger Kit/
Ultimate Plunger Kit from
MFS to clean it out; it also allows for filling a carto as well.
Granted, The Plunger Kit/Ultimate Plunger Kit will only get you so many cleanings & refills a certain number of times before it's basically beyond cleaning & time to move on to a fresh carto but it makes them last a heck of a lot longer. I can make it through pretty much an entire month and sometimes even a month and a half, give or take a few days to a week depending upon the carto itself, my ensuring it doesn't dry out or burn it up by not keeping the carto plenty moist enough albeit, it's equally important not to overfill a carto too or you'll have a mouthful of e-liquid or a slight leak; hwr, since I began using the cartos from CCV, I haven't had much of a leaking problem but that is totally tied to the "making sure I don't overfill the carto" problem, which is actually easy to do if you can't see what you're doing and for me, that happens a lot b/c I can't see what I'm doing.
As if Lupus (SLE), Sjogren's Disease, & Fibromyalgia along with all the crap that bring about isn't bad enough, I also have a retinal eye disease in addition to optic nerve defects that are believed to be the result of a type of birth defect from my having been so premature (2+mos premature). Sjogren's Disease causes inflamed corneas and chronic/severe dry eyes. Either of these can cause corneal ulcers, which is what I am attempting to prevent if at all possible. Lupus (SLE), Sjogren's in general, & Fibromyalgia will cause damage to my vital organs after running their course on my joints, bones, connective-muscle-tissue, skin, nails, nerves in the body, (I've already had osteoarthritis found in few bones in my feet, which isn't great b/c I already have severe osteoporosis, then there's chronic insomnia I've had since childhood as far back as I can recall though Mother claims I've had insomnia since in vitro b/c according to her, from the moment she could first feel me kicking, I never stopped moving... I never slept well as an infant either. As an adult before the blindness, I worked 2, 3 & even 4 jobs at a time working both days & nights living on naps during my day job's lunch hour; the osteoporosis, other than being pretty much a genetic marker of sorts as it runs in my family tho' primarily Mother's side of the family, the fact I'm lactose intolerant doesn't help matters & it's only been in the last 5-6yrs that soy milk like Silk -Vanilla flavored & even Chocolate, began to have a tolerable taste; I have 2 daughters 10yrs apart in age and they were both hi-risk pregnancies. I couldn't and still can't take Caltrate Calcium tablets but I was chewing 2 Tums, 2x a day for years until Viactiv came out; they're soft & come in flavors that taste like candies so they're much more tolerable even though I have to chew more than the required amount to get the necessary calcium I need today even if it won't reverse the problems; the girls took a lot of the calcium in my body when I was pregnant despite the pre-natal vitamins, IV vitamin drip bags, & injections of Iron to reduce anemia, which are painful shots, esp when you get 2 at a time - 1 injection in each buttock.) But I digress. I'm trying to protect and save my corneas so I can donate them. If I can use them to see, the least I can do is whatever I can to save them so that when my time comes, I can donate my corneas and hopefully they will be healthy enough to transplant so that someone else will be able to see again or for the first time. Either way, I'm fighting for my corneas b/c the autoimmune diseases are going to destroy about everything else making it impossible for me to donate anything else so if my corneas are the only things I have with a decent shot, I plan to do whatever I can to keep them healthy enough to donate. There's no reason for another person to never see again or never have a chance to see for the first time considering how many people die each day with perfectly healthy retinas and corneas. My cousin's husband is alive today b/c someone was an organ donor. The kidney came at the best time b/c the dialysis had started failing to do any work when they finally got the call. The donor family refused to allow open contact but they were able to send a thank you letter and a picture of their family. We believe it came from someone who passed away during 9/11 b/c the kidney became available shortly after 9/11. If he hadn't received the kidney when he did, he would likely have died shortly after and long before another became available b/c he was heading downhill fast.
If it had not been for the person who donated their organs, my cousin would be a widow now and would have raised their 4 children, which includes a set of identical twin daughters in the middle with an older daughter and a younger son without her husband being there. He was born with a predisposition to a kidney disorder. It triggered after he was hurt really badly on an offshore rig. I can't imagine those children growing up without their dad. Her husband is a wonderful man. He is a house-husband and has loved every moment of it - even when he was at his sickest although he had to have a lot of help before the transplant and then he had to have nursing care for about a year or so afterward but the kidney is working well as of the news I hear from them when they get the chance whose husband has the donated kidney raised her little sister just as I did with my little brother though neither of them are children anymore. Both of our siblings are married with children of their own. Both of us and our spouses are our nieces & nephews grandparents in our case whereas in the case of my cousin, she only has 1 child, a little boy and he calls her older sister & older sister's husband his grandparents. We raised our siblings so it makes perfect sense. My brother was much younger so he's always called us Mom & Dad. Our girls' grandmother was Mother's oldest sister b/c she was my surrogate mom. She taught me how to be a parent and a good one! I'm just sad that she passed away 8yrs ago this past March. My MIL & I aren't super-super close but she has helped me a lot when dealing with losing the only Mom-figure I ever had. Mother and I always had this backwards thing where I was the parent & she was the child. I keep hoping it will change but never has & likely never will. We only hear from her a couple times a year. Our birth father has been kicked out of our lives for more than 2 decades & the kids think he's dead. We agreed it was best. Besides, he's an abusive alcoholic & neither of us, esp when it comes to our children, need that kind of trash in our lives. He'll be dead soon enough though. You can only fight cirrhosis of the liver in the advanced stages only so long, esp when still drinking heavily. But I digress...
I do hope the info on the Plunger Kit/Ultimate Kit & the carto deal helps. Just make sure to not draw hard on cartos or it can cause the soreness then the locking to come back. It's why I use the plunger kit. It helps clean the cartos to save money, lessen the pull on the draw, and it lets me change flavors without mixing those that don't mix well without losing a carto.
HTHs...
Can vaping cause swelling in your jaw if the draw is too tight? Vaping itself doesn't hurt.