Your almost describing TMJ. There is a spot between nose and ear that gets crazy tight for me. First time I Painfully massaged it out I had a 75% decrease in migraines.
> to the point that I can wake up and know if I'm going to get a migraine or not.
That sounds strikingly familiar. Is it my eyes? My sinuses? Allergies? My pillow? For 15 years and countless doctors nobody could figure it out. Then I went to the dentist and had my bite corrected and have not had a migraine since. I believe my bad bite was causing me to clench my jaw in my sleep.
I have occipital neuralgia (damage to nerves in the back of the head), and the nerves of the head/neck are common triggers of migraines. Fortunately I don't have headaches or migraines, just pain, but people who have both are profoundly miserable I can assure you as I'm in a lot of the Facebook groups. They are essentially disabled, and mostly bedridden with no end to their condition in site (most are young and it's not something you die from). Furthermore, there isn't a lot of sympathy from the outside world as most people don't really believe chronic pain or chronic headache is even possible. It would be nice if there was a test to show pain or confirm a headache to substantiate these horrible conditions.
The paper seems to deal with the pathways by which teeth sense cold, and by which cold is sensed as pain. However, the BBC article seems to introduce another element by using the term 'brain jolt' - which probably refers to the intense 'cold headaches' one can experience from eating too much cold food or drink too quickly. However, I don't see that this is referred to anywhere within the paper (please correct me if I'm wrong) - so this aspect of the BBC's article is extrapolating too far, and should probably be amended.
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