About ten days ago I bent over to kiss my daughter’s head at the exact moment she jumped for joy. I essentially got a sucker punch to the chin. After about thirty seconds of shock (and some tears), we both went on with our day.
About four days later my right-side jaw joint got sore. This morning I woke up and it was really sore. It’s painful to chew hard foods and takes a couple seconds of trying to close my teeth all the way.
Sounds like this delayed onset of “jaw whiplash” is a known thing. So at least I’m not alone.
If it doesn’t improve in a few days I’ll see my doctor. Right now, I just want sympathy and similar stories. Have at it.
I have a case going against the railroad for what happened to me. I’m waiting to hear when the trial dates will be for next year.
I was riding my bike at a decent speed and I crossed the train track as usual, all crevices in the track are going perpendicular to my riding path as usual.
Except two of the metal plates had slid apart from each other creating a crevice in between them that was PARALLEL with my riding path. My front tire fell into it and I was violently thrown over my handlebars and into the concrete. The impact was my upper arch which was fractured and I lost my two front teeth (all I want for Christmas is my two front teeth) and a bottom tooth and it also totaled my bike.
So a construction company along with the railroad were found as responsible for not maintaining the track and there were no warning signs or construction signs.
I was looking ahead when it happened and there was traffic behind me and I never in a million years thought there would be a crevice parallel with my riding path that could make that happen. Even right after the accident I didn’t know how it happened. I had to go back and see that the crevice was there.
I don’t have a similar story but I have sympathy! I have TMJD and if I do something silly like eat popcorn or talk too much I get sort of the same thing as “jaw whiplash.” No fun.
You probably bruised your TM joint. My advice would be to keep chewing and talking to a minimum, take 2 ibuprofen or naproxen a day, and put ice on the jaw once or twice a day. Rest is best!