A while back, whilst working in Oregon, my husband, in agonizing pain, took himself to the emergency room at the local hospital. He had just suffered a severe burn, about 5 x3 inches, on his stomac… Source: 3 Things YOU Need To Know About Trigeminal Neuralgia – Daily Records
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Go a Few Rounds With Your Brain’s Nerves: Welcome to TN Type2 Hell!
Okay. Update. This post is largely in response to a request from a reader. As many of you might remember, I have Trigeminal Neuralgia. For those of you unfamiliar with it, it's a neuropathic disease which affects the trigeminal nerve, the largest nerve in the brain, causing unbelievable head and facial pain. Most scientists, doctors, …
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Minor Surgery on Monday
I'm having a minor neurological surgical procedure Monday morning to hopefully relieve some Trigeminal Neuralgia-related head and facial pain I've been having. This will be at least my eighth such procedure since summer 2011. Some have worked and some haven't. I had three last year and none of them worked at all, but one I …
Vanderbilt Neurology Headache Clinic Visit Outcome
As I may have mentioned, I have spent several months trying to get into Vandy's Headache Clinic before finally finding out I was accepted and getting an appointment. It was for this past Thursday. I was both excited and nervous. Some background. In September 2010, I started getting horrific headaches that I thought were severe …
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Correlation?
So if you've been reading me for any time at all, you're familiar with the fact that I have and battle severe head pain. I have trigeminal neuralgia and have somehow also been diagnosed with cluster headache, both of which are supposed to be among the most painful conditions there are in the world. My …