What is wrong with Docs?

What’s wrong with doctors? As soon as you mention tinnitus, they immediately put you on the “it’s stress” track. They don’t really listen to me. They take X-rays of my jaw, which causes me chronic pain, and then tell me everything looks fine. I wake up in the morning with numb teeth, my head and jaw muscles aching from clenching during the night. I don’t clench because I’m tense—it just happens.

In the end, the doctor starts arguing with me about where exactly it hurts—on the right or the left—even though that’s not important at all. Then, in the middle of our conversation, he gets a call and disappears.

Eventually, he comes back with a condescending conclusion, claiming that I’m the one causing the ringing in my ears because of my psyche, because I’m supposedly tense on the inside.

Why are doctors like this? I’m not stressed—I was just excited about the appointment because I thought I’d finally found someone who could help relieve my jaw pain.

And then this: the only thing they found on the images were tendons around the jaw area that are calcifying. But apparently, that’s “not a big deal.” What a joke.