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Originally Posted by TraceyW
hi all, hope everyone is as well as can be...
i have started to notice a bit of a tingling/numb sensation in the side of my face (next to my mouth on my tos side). It comes in waves when im having a bad pain day but this has just been developing slowly over the last couple of months, with me thinking that im imagining it!
anyone else have this - nto siure if facial symtoms are related to tos...
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Tracy there could be two possibilities I am thinking of...On is the upper cervical nerves, go into the face. They could be acting up..this could be something positional. Did you start a new position to read, sit, sleep, are you hunching over a lap top, looking upward at a monitor?
The other thing is a virus as Bells Palsey. My husband had it from stress right before we got married. Like the tingling before a cold sore would come out.
But, I really think, it is something compressing the upper cervical roots. How is your range of motion in the neck, more side, to side then up and down? Is it tighter on the side you have tingling.
Also how old are you, do you have wisdom teeth.
If you press the area behind the jaw toward the ear is it tender? Then keep following back toward the skull and to the spine...is this nerve path sore?
I would try, check with doc first, per my doc, uses 4 Advil 4X's a day for three days. Mainly I use Advil or Toradol to calm down the knife in my upper wing, just thought that the same could work for the upper nerves inflamation too.
have you have a MRI to look for new damage?
Just some thoughts,
Dianne
PS Martha, I have the diminished hearing on my worse affected side. I also have background noise like wind or whoosh more noticable when it is quiet or trying to sleep.