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

Doddle I think that the nerves are always trying to regenerate and re grow
but I am not a doctor or anything. The nerves may not "re-grow" but the may be trying to and that may be what is causing the t.n. pain
I have no idea how or why just think that nerves even tho they may be severed or damaged... nerves are always trying to re generate .
I hope you are able to get rid of the new pain. a.d. is enough !!
Sending my prayers and healing thoughts to you .

PEACE
BMW

Thank you for the support, B.M.
I am totally devastated over this. I know my A.D. pain and I do my best to deal with it. I was blind sighted by this new (yet old) pain of the electric shock business. It brings with it the uncertain, horrible feelings that I was fighting before my last surgery to sever the T.N. nerve.
I ask myself and my husband "what am I going to do?" I can't live like this, scared to death to even talk, eat, move.
The memory of what it used to be like is flooding my mind.
I know it is very hard for others to understand about the shocks that occur in your tongue , jaw, and ear. It can
paralise you with fear. It's like I am being held captive on an island full of snakes.
The Dr. upped my neurontin but so far there is no med's
that will touch it. I'm a wreck...
All the best, Doodle bug7

Have you tried a benzo yet? Ativan, Xanax, Klonopin, Valium. Any of the first three at 1mg or Valium at 10mg. Should help a ton.

Thanks...no, I haven't tried those.
D bug7

Doodle Bug,
I am so sorry to hear that you are having your electric shock pains back. It's bad enough that you have to deal with the a.d. that you experience. You're right, it does make you feel like you're afraid to eat, talk, move, etc. That is how I felt last June when I was going through all of that. I felt like a prisoner just laying in my bed afraid to move. I hope someone can help you, and soon. It scares me to think that mine can come back any time it wants to also. Take care and keep us informed.
Laureen