Hi,

I'm here to connect and share with other people affected by trigeminal neuropathy. I'm not actually the one suffering, it's my sister in law but she's not much into support from people she doesn't know so I was hoping to learn something here that I could in turn share with her as she's much more open to advice/encouragement from family rather than strangers.

Two years ago she went in to the dentist for a deep cleaning. They injected her with novocaine and gave her gas since she has such high anxiety about the dentist and the novocaine was because she was getting a deep clean.

The dentist damaged her nerve when giving her the injection and all of our lives have been changed since that day. It's been almost 2 1/2 years and she is still in debilitating pain all day every day. She's been through more meds and combination of meds then I can count, she's seen dentists, endodontists, maxilla facial specialists, neurologists, and has even taken a two week trip out of state to seek treatment at the Mayo clinic. The dentist that did this to her has not only taken her life but the lives of her children and the rest of our family and it's been a long, devestating two and a half years but we don't want to give up. We're hoping that maybe there's been some medical breakthrough we haven't heard about or tried yet.

Again, I'm just here for support, advice, encouragement and to hear your stories. While I'm not the one who is personally dealing with extreme pain each and every day it certainly has affected mine, my husbands, and the rest of our family's life. We look to the future with hope in our hearts. Peace and Love!!