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Originally Posted by JoannaP79
For now the big issue for me is facial pain. This tops the nerve pain anywhere and has left me housebound and wanting to sleep for the most part. Not only is it awful burning on my skin I feel deeper nerve pain within my sinus canals which feels absolutely hideous. I really worry the deeper nerve pain in sinuses is the start of trigeminal neuralgia
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Hello Joanna,
As a survivor of Trigeminal Neuralgia, it doesn't sound like TN to me but I'm not an expert or a doctor. My TN consisted of random severe electrical shocks in my right cheek, right pallette and right side of my lips. Once you experience it, you'll never forget it. As the TN Wiki says, "Worst pain known to man". There are
2 types of TN,
Typical and Atypical. Mine was Typical and I suppose you might have Atypical but from I've read most people with
Atypical have burning sensations in their gums and pain like a severe toothache. Most people have TN on one side of the face or the other but there are a very small amount of people that have it on both sides of the face.
You can read more here....
Facial Pain, Trigeminal Neuralgia
Here is a link to the Wiki page.
Trigeminal neuralgia - Wikipedia
Thank god there was surgery called
MVD (Microvascular decompression) available for me but as far as I know it only helps people with Typical TN. Literally saved my life.
Not sure if this helps.....