facial nerve pain?

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munro

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anyone familiar with facial nerve pain? i've been having intermittent fine nerve pain in my face - diagonally down my right cheek, nothing to do with my teeth. is this part of my als? its quite painful. my dr. is looking into it.

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Trigeminal neuralgia can cause extremely painful facial pain--usually just on one side. It's when the trigeminal nerve gets irritated--either by loss of the myelin sheath or rubbing against something.

Pain meds don't work for it. Drugs like Tegretol can help--of course I'm basing this on my own case. Mine, when it was bad, was excruciating. NO warning--just stabbing pain down my face.

I believe mine was caused by a bad tooth extraction--but that's my theory--not fact. It seems to be relatively common in MS.
 
I agree. I suffer from trigeminal neuralgia and also took Tegretol to relieve the pain. Thankfully, I rarely have symptoms anymore.

You may need a pain clinic, if it gets worse.
 
Are you spamming? What org to you work for? That is the 2nd post that is a repeat, verbatim. How that didn't go to the mod, I don't know.
 
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