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Old 12-08-2009, 02:49 PM #1
ALIFE ALIFE is offline
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Default Trigeminal or Occipital neuralgia?

I need your advice, I'm going to try to explain the best i could.

Everything begin in June 2009. I went to see the dentist. I broke the last molar on the left bottom side in the summer of 2008. I had many visit to the dentist to fix it. During one of the visit, the dentist syringe needle touch something on the left bottom side and a sharp pain radiate from the left side jaw to the ear and up. My eyes were crying by them self and I had the reflex to rush my hand to my left side of the face. It last for a good 2 minutes than slowly the pain regressed. The dentist said he was sorry and it isn't something that happens often.

After I left the dentist I had that huge head ache, I had to go home and rest. Then I begin to have the tongue burning. Every time the tongue was touching the teeth or when I was talking, I had that burning stabbing pain. It last for 7 days then go away completely. Then couple days later I was driving and I turn left and everything begins to be blurry. I begin to be dizzy with vertigo. When I arrived at work, I was seating at my desk and the ceiling lights and computer make me feeling like everything was spinning around me. I add to go to the hospital and I wasn’t able to walk easily. It last for 2 weeks than it when away.

During the next 3 weeks I had big migraine and with the migraine I had the light sensibility, dizziness, vertigo, wasn’t able to walk without falling, ringing ears and that sharp pain on the left side of my face. Every time I eat, the first bite trigger a sharp pain on the left side that begin in the jaw then goes up to the side of my face.

They send me to have a CAT scan and MRI. They didn’t see any tumor. I went to see a Neurologist and after few minute to look at the MRI he said that it should be some Big Migraine and send me back home with some Strong dose of Steroid that should stop it. I took it for 10 days and nothing happen. Then I saw an Ear specialist and he didn’t find anything.

Since then here are my symptoms. I have that pain right on the top of bolt eyes every time I move them left, right, up and down. If someone opens a light without letting me know, I get that sharp pain like a knife into my eyes. Neon lights like those in an office or hospital hurt too. I have to close all blinds in the house because light is hurting my eyes. Computer and television are hard to watch. I can’t look left and right more than 3 to 4 times before I get dizzy and vertigo to a point that I won’t be able to walk without falling. I can’t drive because all the cars passing beside me make me dizzy and spinning. If my wife is playing Guitar Hero I can’t watch. It’s like a hyper sensibility to movement. Sometimes my eyes are watering after reading on internet or going outside.

2 to 3 times a week, I get those huge head ache that nothing I’m taking is taking the edge off. They are in the frontal lobe part right on top of my eyes. I try some Imitrex and many others but noting is working.
I have that sharp paint on the side of the face that goes up every time I eat. It last for 10-20 sec than goes away. The first bite trigger a sharp pain on the left side that begins in the jaw then goes up to the side of my face. Some days it’s happening more often than others. Cold and hot trigger pain. When talking I can feel pain in the jaw.

I have that ringing in bolt ears. I get really irritated. Ex: if I’m watching TV and some is talking close to me or doing some sound or movement, it’s irritate me. It’s like I can’t concentrate to do one thing. Like if I’m hyper sensible to sounds and movements.

I’m a finance clerk and since July 2009 I’m not able to work or do anything. If I try to input some data in the computer and I have to look at the sheet beside the computer, the back and forth trigger a huge vertigo and dizziness to a point that I can’t do it. If I get up and try to walk after it’s like to be on a boat in a big storm. I can’t control my movement. It’s hard to explain. I try to work an hour 3 days a week and after that hour it trigger huge head ache, dizziness and vertigo and the next day it’s not better. I did it for 2 weeks to see if there will be improvement but I fall couple time and the last time I black out. The doctor stops me and since then I’m at home doing nothing and I can’t stand that.

Every time I walk more than 30 minutes I get the same symptoms. I have two dogs and if I look at them when they are running the same symptoms are coming back.

My doctor doesn’t know what to do now. They have tried many things. I will be beginning Tegretol this week. I can’t change doctor because I’m in the Military. Need your help guys…. I don’t know what to think. Is it Trigeminal or Occipital Neuralgia or Something else? Can someone point me in the right direction? Thanks
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