Anyone else feel like biting things when they have a cold?

In My Humble Opinion
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Or is it just me?

Sort of a poll, I guess.

During every cold I have ever had, my teeth (especially my upper teeth) have a dull but persistent and irritating ache that is only relieved by biting down fairly hard on something, or chewing something tough. It returns as soon as the biting/chewing is done*. Because I’m usually in bed with nothing chewable in reach, I frequently bite down on my knuckles to relieve the feeling. I also find if I run my tongue across the tips of my teeth at this stage they ( my teeth) feel abnormally sharp to me, much more so than they do, say, right now, when I do the same thing.

My friends and family report no similar phenomonon, but do report that I’m strange all over.

Is this just me? The feeling feels like it 'goes ’ with the other aches and irritations of a cold, somehow. I imagine I’m not the only one. Anybody else get the same thing?

For that matter, does anybody else have a cold symptom unique to themselves?

*This is at least a source of amusement to me in an otherwise boring time - I look around the room and fantasize about biting the objects within. Blanket, book, clock, kitty, boyfriend…

I find if look directly at the cat and think very hard about biting her that she ups and leaves pretty quick. I must get a gleam in my eye.

No, I would never bite the cat.

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I get that feeling when I’m drunk but not when I have a cold.

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When my sinuses clog up my lips on my left side and my teeth on the same side start to hurt like hell. They get numb and I have to go for the Advil and the Menthol nose spray to get relief. I’ve bitten fingers, (my own) and my blankets to get relief but I have to wait for the other stuff to work. :wink:

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Aesiron - do you end up biting your drunken buddies? :smiley:

badkittypriestess - Huh. Weird that it’s only the left side. It’s only on the left even if not just your left side is blocked?
Well, view-response ratio being so poor I guess it’s not so many people who get this. I’ll have to go on quietly eating my house on my own, bit by bit, cold by cold.

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I don’t know what to tell ya’! Both nostrills can be pretty plugged up but when I go numb it’s only the left side! Very strange I know. :smiley:

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I don’t know what to tell ya’! Both nostrills can be pretty plugged up but when I go numb it’s only the left side! Very strange I know. :smiley:

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I have a biting reflex when my nose is stuffy, too. I usually use it as an opportunity to eat rather than chomp down on my blanket. I’ve always just thought that the act of chewing must manipulate/stimulate the sinuses so that I’m able to breathe better.

On a related note, many times eating salty potato chips will help alleviate a sore throat.

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My dentist exrayed may jaw a few decades back and found my sinuses extended into my jaw.

When I enquired about the health risks she told me “none but your teeth will hurt when you have a cold”.

Yea, when my nose is stuffed it feels good to chomp on a rag or something.

Dunno bout you but that answered it for me.

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On a few lucky occasions.

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I wonder if it also might be tied in to the fact that chewing gum helps when on an airplane flight? The chewing helps equalize the pressure in the ears. Chewing can also help encourage your ears to drain if your sinuses are so plugged up that your ears are also congested. Why not give in and chew a clean wash rag? :wink: I know I have done that when I was badly congested, and my ears just did NOT want to drain. That, and a heating pad applied behind each ear helped. Get well soon!