Help! Facial Tension from chin injury?

Hi, I hope someone can help me. When i was 14 i grazed off half my chin (on the right side of my face) in a bmx accident. The doctor my mum took me to ended up giving me stitches, even though he expressed concern he didnt want me to have any side effects. So at first he didn't want to do stitches but for some reason he did. So i must have lost about 6cm sqared of skin/flesh, as the doctor had to pull the graze together to stitch it. I have since learned you are not supposed to stitch a graze, especially as i wasn't losing much blood. Now im 27 and have had this problem which has been driving me crazy. It feels like one side of my face is being pulled down, the same side as which i lost half my chin. It feels like the right side of my mouth is being distorted and is tense, and i used to get wierd twitches on the right side of my nose. I feel like I have not been able to relax for at least 7 years and have experienced bad eyesight and facial tension which began around the same time as I suffered the injury. My eyes do not relax and I always have strange tension in my right eye. I also suffer from dermatitis which mostly effects the right side of the face. I discovered there could be a connection last year when i realised when i push up on my chin and that side of the face, my whole world relaxes and i feel like a weight has been taken off not just my face but it feels like my stomach relaxes too and i can breath better, as well as my eyestrain dissapearing. It also feels li...
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