I've recently started up jogging/walking again, but I'm getting some very annoying side effects. After about 10 minutes, my cheeks and lips start getting very sore. There is no shooting pain or anything, but they just ache. Then last night, for the first time ever, my jaw starting aching in the same way. A few years ago when I was about 40 lbs less, my lips would get a bit tingly from jogging, but that was it.

I run outside in the evening, and while it was a tad chilly here in So. Cal last night, this tends to happen no matter what the weather is like. Has anyone else run into this before? Any suggestions as to how to stop this from happening? At this point, I think I'm going to give up on the jogging as I can't keep doing this to my face.

FYI, jaw pain can actually be referred chest pain. Since it happens 10 minutes into your workout, you should ask your doctor about that, because that's a typical pattern for angina.

could you be clinching and not realize it? I have a tendency to do that

Truth be told, I don't really know what angina is, so I had to look it up - sounds like chest/heart pain?

About 6-7 months ago, I became good friends with my doctors, as I had to go through several tests for severe heart pain. It started about a year ago with a sluggish heart beat, which then turned into sharp shooting pains all day long, which then morphed into a pain that felt like someone was squeezing my heart 24/7. Was quite scary, but all they could find out was that I have a heart murmur, arrhythmia, and my mitral valve is a tad wonky. I kept getting told that I was perfectly fine, and I was too young to have heart troubles which is not what a person wants to hear when it feels like their heart is about to crap out any second. The cardiologist's final opinion is that all was well, and to followup in a year.

Long story short, that's very interesting that your first thought could be angina. I don't tend to go to the doctor often, but I will definitely bring this up on my next check-up.


And Willow: I don't *believe* I'm clenching, but I've never paid too much attention to it. I tend to run with my mouth slightly open, and I haven't mastered my breathing yet, so maybe that also has something to do with it.