Zoe Ball's TMJ condition and symptoms you should never ignore as star opens up about 'awful' pain

BBC broadcaster Zoe Ball has opened up astir her conflict with a comparatively chartless unwellness that causes the prima to endure from atrocious headaches. Here's everything you request to cognize connected TMJ

Much-loved Radio 2 presenter Zoe Ball recently announced her departure from her long-running meal amusement - and present she has fto fans successful connected her conflict distant from the airwaves.

The mum-of-two said she wanted to absorption connected her household aft six years, with the broadcaster taking a interruption this summertime aft her mum Julie Peckham died of pancreatic cancer. Now, Zoe has opened up astir a achy health information she suffers from called temporomandibular associated disorder, known arsenic TMJ oregon TMD.

According to the NHS, which calls the information TMD, this affects 'the question of the jaw. It's not usually superior and mostly gets amended connected its own'. But the prima shared connected Instagram the conflict she was having with the condition, saying: "I person TMJ and aftermath astir days with atrocious headaches from hostility and jaw clenching.

"So grateful to Helen @sculptresslondon for her magic. This is my look aft I've seen her, cheque retired my look earlier - yikes - representation 2." Zoe revealed much details of the attraction she was undergoing to assistance and asked her followers for their signs and symptoms.

She said: "Also having microsuction connected the aged ears astatine the play (in the bully aged days receptor syringing was escaped connected the NHS, present they won't bash - truthful £60 to person wax removed). This tin besides beryllium communal with those who person TMJ. Just funny to cognize if others person these conditions."

Common TMJ/TMD symptoms to ticker retired for

According to the NHS website, determination are 5 communal symptoms to look retired for erstwhile it comes to the condition. They are:

• pain astir your jaw, receptor and temple
• clicking, popping oregon grinding noises erstwhile you determination your jaw
• a headache astir your temples
• difficulty opening your rima fully
• your jaw locking erstwhile you unfastened your mouth

Pain from TMJ tin worsen erstwhile you consciousness stressed oregon are chewing food. It tin besides origin insomnia.

How to easiness them

When it comes to helping TMJ, eating brushed food, taking paracetamol oregon ibuprofen and massaging your achy jaw muscles tin each beryllium of use. The authoritative proposal besides includes utilizing an crystal battalion oregon vigor battalion wrapped successful a beverage towel and applied to the jaw, oregon trying to find a mode to relax.

Things to beryllium avoided see biting nutrient with your beforehand teeth, chewing gum oregon pen tops and yawning widely. Biting your nails and clenching your teeth tin besides beryllium atrocious quality for TMJ.

When to question urgent aesculapian help

While TMJ usually gets amended without treatment, if immoderate of the pursuing symptoms hap the NHS proposal is to telephone 111 oregon marque an urgent GP appointment:

• if you're incapable to devour oregon drink
• if you person clicking, popping oregon grinding noises erstwhile you determination your jaw
• if you person trouble opening your rima afloat oregon your jaw is locking
• if you person symptom astir your jaw, receptor oregon astatine the broadside of your head
• if you person frequent, terrible headaches
• if you person symptom oregon tenderness astatine the broadside of your caput oregon connected the scalp
• if you person imaginativeness problems, specified arsenic treble imaginativeness oregon nonaccomplishment of imaginativeness successful 1 oregon some eyes