[beth bailey]

Hi everyone,

I was diagnosed with Trigeminal Neralgia in November and had MVD in February of this year. After a 6 hours surgery, 2 days in ICU and 2 days in regular hospital room I was released. I am 3 months into my recovery and still have small attacks, my face is numb just below my nose all the way down including half my tongue and lips. I still take 600 mg of the meds everyday and am a little scared to stop or decrease for fear the massive pain will return. My face itches all the time and my skin on the right side is so dry and more recently my incision is very sore. I had a CF leak about 2 weeks after my surgery and had to have a spinal tap and I am afraid the new pain in my incision is not normal. My doc says all of this in normal any thoughts?

[Darlene]

Happy to see you have come to be with us. Just let us know if we can be of any help. There are great and caring friends here to assist you. Our shoulders are here for support in many ways. Seems you have been through some ruff times. Please keep us up to date.

Check into the following forum for some assistance:

http://neurotalk.psychcentral.com/forum26.html

Again welcome, looking forward to seeing you around. My thoughts and prayers are with you.

Darlene

[Abbie]

Hello Beth
and
WELCOME to Neurotalk!

I see that Darlene has given the TN forum link to you....

Please feel free to pull up a chair, kick off your shoes and stay a while.
You are also more than welcome to roam around all of the forums and join in where ever you would like.

If you have any questions please don't hesitate to ask....someone will always be around shortly to help in any way that we can.

I hope to see you around the boards.

Abbie