Originally Posted by BaadDawg
Forgot about your Trigeminal Neuralgia. My mother developed that about 10 years into her re-lapse with MS (the relapse lasted 20 years with no remission until she passed away).
They say it is the worst of the worst as far as human pain. Wouldn't doubt that for one second. A feather could touch her face in a certain spot and she would scream like someone was sticking hot knives into her. And she was a real trooper, took most everything without flinching, but not that. At least you got rid of it.
Well, not completely gone. I've been having twinges of pain, and I had a full-blown relapse in June of this last year. As bad as before. Strangely cured by taking two Atavans to calm me prior to a MRI. Poof, it, unexplainably went away! But it recently is returning. The answer probably lies in that the TN nerve near my brain was likely permanently damaged, and the surgery can not repair that, although it cam move the offending blood vessels out of the way, and they do insert a teflon pad to prevent further irritation to the TN nerve.
Today - this am, I am fine!