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This Weird Period Symptom Can Make Your Teeth Hurt. Here’s Why It Happens.

Hormonal shifts before menstruation can make gums swollen, tender, or prone to bleeding, causing mouth and tooth pain for some women.

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There are the usual awful signs your period is coming. Waking up with sore boobs. That first twinge of cramps. Feeling absolute rage at the slow walker in front of you. Then there’s the symptom hardly anyone talks about: your teeth hurt.

The mouth is not exempt from hormonal nonsense, unfortunately. A 2025 review in Cureus found that changes in estrogen and progesterone can affect the gums before menstruation. Some women end up with swelling, bleeding, or soreness around the teeth that goes away once the period starts.

Content creator @realhousewifeofwisconsin posted about debilitating mouth pain that always returned with her cycle. “It took me years to figure out why I wanted to rip my teeth out each month,” she........

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