I thought I was having my first tension headache. I woke up one morning with this horrible pain in my jaw muscles. My face felt like it was screaming. Make a scrunched up face while simultaneously biting down as hard as you can. Imagine what your face would feel like after 8 hours of holding that position. That is literally how my face and head feel every day. EVERY DAY. It is making me irritable and quite unhappy.

Garrett Hoffmann is blogging his transition at transformgarret.blogspot.com. You can find his earlier posts here.

I generally get jaw pain when I am super stressed out or tense but lately I have felt neither of these things. Nothing is really wrong and I am not particularly stressed about anything. In fact, I’m more relaxed and happy than I have been in a long time. I thought it might be a result of me grinding my teeth at night. I purchased a mouth guard to see if that helped while sleeping but it made it worse in the morning. I tried massage and relaxing my face muscles. These sometimes help during the day but each morning I wake up with the same pain. I am beginning to wonder if this pain is a result of my jaw growing/changing because of the Testosterone. I feel like my bite is changing too. I used to have a slight overbite but my jaw feels more comfortable now if I rest my bottom teeth just on the inside of my top teeth. This is so strange. I’m wondering if any other guys have experienced this…or if I should maybe go to a doctor to get this checked out.

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