Trigeminal Neuralgia

[OhPleaseJustQuit]

Is there anyone here with TN? I don't know how many members there are on this board, but TN affects one in 20,000, statistically. If there is a fellow TN sufferer out there, I'd like to know. I tried a couple of TN groups on Facebook and was really unsatisfied.

 

[InstantOn]

Is there anyone here with TN? I don't know how many members there are on this board, but TN affects one in 20,000, statistically. If there is a fellow TN sufferer out there, I'd like to know. I tried a couple of TN groups on Facebook and was really unsatisfied.

Years ago a co-worker had it bad. They finally did something to block the nerve. After that, she couldn't move part of her face, but the pain was gone.

 

[OhPleaseJustQuit]

Years ago a co-worker had it bad. They finally did something to block the nerve. After that, she couldn't move part of her face, but the pain was gone.

It really is a killer of a condition!

I have casually polled the FB groups and concluded that about 50% of sufferers get relief from medical treatment. I met someone in one of the FB groups who gave me good advice about dietary changes and a chiropractic specialty, and both approaches have almost alleviated the pain for the last three years. I occasionally slip with the dietary regimen because it's boring, but I'm still doing a lot of experimenting. I ate something wrong and have been flirting with a flare-up for about a week now.

Thanks for responding. Hope your co-worker continues to improve.

 

[Otis Mayfield]

Trigeminal neuralgia is sudden, severe facial pain. It's often described as a sharp shooting pain or like having an electric shock in the jaw, teeth or gums. It usually happens in short, unpredictable attacks that can last from a few seconds to about 2 minutes.


That sucks.

 

[OhPleaseJustQuit]

Trigeminal neuralgia is sudden, severe facial pain. It's often described as a sharp shooting pain or like having an electric shock in the jaw, teeth or gums. It usually happens in short, unpredictable attacks that can last from a few seconds to about 2 minutes.


That sucks.

Thanks.

One very imaginative sufferer described it as the sensation of chewing on an electric fence while getting hit in the face with a shovel. Never having had either of those experiences, I can't concur but my own imagination accepts that that's a fairly close description. Others describe it as the sensation of getting tased in the face.