After coming home from a dentist appointment, researched trigeminal neuralgia. I'd gone in for a check-up and cleaning (thinking I'd need further work which I don't) and to ask him about sporadic jaw pain that has going on for about a month or two. He asked a lot of questions and then did what I call the roundabout x-ray.

He saw no pathology in the jawbones or other structures, and said he thought it was trigeminal neuralgia. I'd forgotten to ask the neuro last Monday about this, but it does fit with Sjogren's.

Anybody else here have it and to what degree?

Thanks,

Sheltiemom

I'm sorry. I have bouts of trigeminal neuralgia; the worst is brought on by dental procedures. It's loads of "fun" to sit and feel the pain move from the jaw that's been assaulted to the other jaw and then to the area around the eye and ear, until the whole side of my head is involved. I have found the most effective treatments to be acupuncture and craniosacral work. Pain meds just make me feel dopey while only taking the edge off the pain.

Athena

I have trigeminal neuralgia(TN), occipital neuralgia, and some form of neuropathy. While looking for a link between them, I came across Sjogren's and the description I read indicates that multiple nerve problems are associated with it. I would definately call your neurologist and run it by him where the dentist has ruled out any other cause. Luckily, you didn't end up in the hands of a hack dentist who did needless dental procedures on you. I've spent a lot of money and undergone a lot of them when the culprit was most likely the early stages of TN. On the flip side, I'm sorry that you're experiencing the pain of TN. Like other neuropathic pain conditions, it responds best to anticonvulsant and antidepressant medications. There is a separate forum on this board that you might want to check out. EE