Six years ago, as a very last option, the neurology team at Mayo clinic severed my trigeminal nerve. The electric shocks that ran through my face stopped only to be replaced by Anesthesia Delorosa, a different kind of pain. A.D. is not a scary pain as T.N. but it has pain in it's own right. There is no surgery or medication to correct it and so you are left with trying to decide which meds at least take the edge off. When things get rough, I reach for an ice pack to get it settled down. I have fallen asleep many times with the icepack on my face.
The last two evenings have been unsettling for me as I began having some of those lightening like pains. I keep thinking that the trigeminal nerve has repaired itself and is coming to reek havoc in my life. Has anyone ever heard of anything like this? I am sitting on needles and pins as
I think back how devestating those pains were. Can this be happening again, but how? Thank you for any help you might have for me, Doodle bug7