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I woke up early this morning to find my mouth guard on top of the blankets in front of me. My entire body was a huge tight knot. Luckily, it was still early enough to try loosen my muscles. I took muscle relaxants, regular paid meds, and the small amount of pain meds that I had. Then lay back down to let them take effect. I had to get up and stretch my TIGHT muscles as much as I could before laying back down. I felt a lot better than I had 2 hours before. I'm still hurtin, but not nearly as much. I don't know how my mouth guard came out. but the weird part was I still had the cough drop I had in my mouth all nite. I guess it was a nightmare, It had all the signs: woke up in pain, bed thrashed, and mouth guard out, and massive pain. At least I don't remember the nitemare. That's the good part.
All from grinding my teeth from nightmares.
Fortunately, over years therapy brought out the underlying causes of those nightmares, and I found peace to the point that I don't even have to wear a mouth guard now. I do wake up a couple of times a night, but usually get back to sleep. And I don't just have nightmares now. I have good dreams again sometimes, and when I wake up I always write those down right away.
Hoping for better restful sleep for you.