I bit my own finger!

Last night I was lounging on the couch. Since I have TMJD, sometimes the most comfortable way to lounge is with my finger in my mouth, the tip between my teeth. It helps relax my jaw muscles.

I drifted off to sleep, with my finger in my mouth, and I woke myself up by BITING my own finger VERY hard.

18 hours later there’s still a white spot on the nail bed and it hurts. It hurts when I type!

I think I’ve done this before, too. But not as hard. I always get the stupidest injuries :frowning:

MPSIMS for sure, but I am seriously trying to avoid work today.

I also bite in my sleep. I am quite regularly startled out of a sound sleep for no apparent reason that I can tell…only to have my tongue start throbbing and tasting blood a few seconds later. On a long car trip I bit the same side of my tongue 4 times before I just refused to fall back asleep.

I also have the TMJD–I wonder if sleep-biting is correlated?

Tmjd…?

When your jaw goes all wonky and makes it hard to use for things like talking, eating and s****** c*** :slight_smile:

I bit my finger a few years ago. I was eating some kind of food that comes in small units, like Cheetos or something, and went to pop one in my mouth while I was still chewing the previous one. (To say that I eat like a pig would be an insult to all the fine porcine inhabitants of the Earth.)

So I tried to pop it into my mouth, and somehow I got my index finger caught between my jaws as I was chewing. I wasn’t really chomping or anything involving unusual effort; just regular, laid-back chewing.

It turns out that “regular, laid-back chewing” involves a LOT more force than you would think. It was so extraordinarily painful that I felt certain I’d broken the bone in the tip of my finger. As it turned out, I didn’t break it (or do any other real damage to speak of), but DAMN, that was painful.

And now I am acutely aware that when I am eating, I’m exerting a surprising amount of force with my jaws. Live and learn.

I will sometimes do this when eating fries–and you’re entirely correct, it is surprisingly painful! Not to mention, it makes me feel incredibly stupid!

Soaping cats? :stuck_out_tongue:

I’ve bitten my finger once or twice while eating popcorn. Ouch. What I really hate is when I bite the inside of my cheek and it swells up just enough to insure that I’ll bite it a couple more times before I’m done eating.

Hmm, I’ve never bitten my tongue while sleeping LittleBird. That sounds horrible! Mostly because my finger is not supposed to be in my mouth when I’m sleeping so what I did was just stupid, but how does one keep one’s tongue safe from one’s teeth?! Owie!

I don’t know if biting/grinding/clenching/bruxism is a cause or a symptom of TMJD. I was never told that I grind my teeth before I was diagnosed (my teeth are clearly not ground down) and after that I had a night mouthguard. But I know for a fact that I clench/bite now when I sleep.

All you guys who bite your fingers while eating…you’re just goobers :smiley: