I was semi recently diagnosed with TN. the only thing the doctors aren’t sure of is why my face swells and gets red (on the left side). They say it is possibly because I also have fibro and it is both conditions together that causes the swelling and redness.
HI Lisa
I just had the same concern and one of my fellow TN buddies said she gets the same thing during a flare up. My cheek on the TN side gets red and looks a bit puffy. At least to me it does hehehe, nobody else seems to think so. I also found my eye was sensitive when putting on make-up, I'll power through that one, the make-up stays :)
Hope you are having a good day :)
When my TN flares I get redness on my cheek. I thought it might be Rosacea, but the redness is directly related to the flare up. My eyes swell overnight, to the point where every morning I have to wait until it goes down to put on my eyeliner! Like you, foxboro, the makeup absolutely stays!
Lotion with cucumber helps because it helps with the puffiness on my cheek. So far I haven't found anything that helps the redness. I tried Lubriderm once and it only made it worse.
Wow you guys that is so wild. No I don’t feel so alone. A lot of people will be like oh I can’t tell it’s swollen and of course it is not as red because of the makeup. But I have taken a lot of pictures during flares off and on through the years just so I can prove a point to the doctors. Not that I am happy you guys have this problem but now I do not feel like the lone ranger lol.
I get this too. The whole side of my face will get red and puffy. Other people will even notice it. And when I have a flare up in my left eye the same thing--my eye gets puffy, red and even blurry. It's horrible. I have noticed in photos that my worst TN side (I am bilateral) looks a bit droopier then the other side. Seems there are lots of us out there that get this.
To make the doctors finally acknowledge I had something going on with one side of my face I started taking what I call "ugly selfies". I have a load of them. It was my way of proving to them that something was going on. It took me four years to get diagnosed and put on tegretol. The tegretol and gabapentin are no longer working and my break throughs are more and more. My PCP is scared to up those medicines and I am not so patiently awaiting an appointment on April 13th. I even went and made a time stamp collage to show doctors. So they can see it is getting worse. It is funny what people say they don't notice face to face with you but makeup off and a photograph - they are like - WOW!