I've had TMJ since I was about 13 (almost 20 now). I've been getting treatment from a specialist, and my condition has improved greatly from those suicidally painfull earaches I had when I was 13 - sometimes I even have days were I don't have any symptoms at all! Yay. However, a lot of my success has also come from homeopathy. By reading materia medicas, messing around with the rememdy finder on abchomeopathy.com and just different remedies, I was able to find one that worked: Oleum Animale. I works very well for me. Besides helping my TMJ, it also improved my dandruff and acne problems, as well as another one. Since I was little I was always very shy and "in my own little world", as well as being one of the weird kids. However, since I started taking the remedy I started becoming a lot more socialable and I've actually started to have empathy for others, something I NEVER EVER had before...I was hard at first dealing with all these new feelings, which were very strong compared to the ones I've had all my life! As my sister said, "you're becoming normal."

I started taking Oleum Animale for about this past year. I've used 6X, 12X, and 30C. 30C seems to be the longest lasting, of course. However, something interesting happens if I take more than one or two pillules of 30C - I get depressed! I get very apathetic towards friendships with something like "They really don't like me, they just put up with me to be nice" running through my head all the time. You have to understand I never had, or really wanted friends for most of my life, I never had a single one in elementary or high school, dealing with friends is something completely new to me! I've been taking it off and on in these various potencies for about the past year.

These are the other remedies I tried, along with my reaction to them:

Causticum (6X) - Gave me a valium-like high for about 5 minutes. Then I wet the bed that night

Verbascum Thaps (6X) - Didn't do much. Just gave me a indiscriminate, very slight tooth and face ache.

Phytolacca Dec. (6X) - Ugh. Horrible sore throught, fever. Imagine having the world cold/flu of your life while getting shocked.

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Well, hopefully that was plenty of background. Oleum Animale work(ed?) well, but it seems to have done all it can do to help my condition. My response from it has plateued. Keep in mind I've only used 6X, 12X, and 30C. Do I need to go to a different potency, if so, which one? If not that, which remedy do I need to go to?