Too Painful to Chew
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  • It hurts when I try to chew

  • Painful and unable to chew

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Content updated on Jan 4, 2023

About the symptom

Pain hinders ability to chew

When to see a doctor

Seek professional care if you experience any of the following symptoms

  • Abnormal sensation (tingling, prickling)

  • Palpitation

  • Numbness of the body

  • Dizziness

  • Fever

  • Numbness / sensory disorder

  • Muscle weakness in the limbs

  • Headache

Possible causes

  • Spinal canal stenosis . spondylolisthesis

    Narrowing of the canal surrounding the spinal cord. It can be caused by normal wear and tear of the spine or by a previous injury to the region.

  • Chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy

    Chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy (CIDP) or chronic relapsing polyneuropathy happens when the immune system attacks the myelin sheaths (protective fatty coverings) around the nerves. The exact triggers are unclear but could be systemic conditions like liver disease, diabetes, infections, cancer, immune system disorders, etc.

  • Familial amyloid polyneuropathy

    Familial amyloid polyneuropathy (FAPs) are life-threatening, multisystem, inherited disorders where amyloid (an abnormal protein that can be deposited in any tissue) accumulates in nerve fibers and around nerves.

  • Inclusion body myositis

  • Autoimmune necrotizing myopathy (statin-related autoimmune myopathy)

  • Spinal cord infarction

  • Eosinophilic polyangiogenic granulomatosis EGPA

  • Adrenal cancer

Related serious diseases

  • Mumps

    A highly contagious infection caused by the mumps virus.

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  • Do you have difficulty chewing due to pain?

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Reviewed By:

Yoshinori Abe, MD

Yoshinori Abe, MD (Internal medicine)

Dr. Abe graduated from The University of Tokyo School of Medicine in 2015. He completed his residency at the Tokyo Metropolitan Health and Longevity Medical Center. He co-founded Ubie, Inc. in May 2017, where he currently serves as CEO & product owner at Ubie. Since December 2019, he has been a member of the Special Committee for Activation of Research in Emergency AI of the Japanese Association for Acute Medicine. | | Dr. Abe has been elected in the 2020 Forbes 30 Under 30 Asia Healthcare & Science category.

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