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My temple's are painful and tender when i touch them. what could be causing this?
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Muscle strain: Probably muscle strain related to your muscles of chewing and facial expression. If you were much older and this was associated with a tender pulsing artery one would consider temporal arteritis.
Answered 6/26/2014
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