I seem to have figured out that my TN is triggered by postural things e.g. sitting on my ultra soft and comfy armchairs. My dentist agrees. He says poor posture causes many facial pain syndromes, in his opinion. I had started doing this phenomenal exercise programme called T-Tapp just a few weeks before I got TN for the first time. Without going into detail here I was wondering if anyone here also T-Tapps?
can you explain more about it?
Hi Melissa, it’s called after its creator, a phenomenal lady called Teresa Tapp. She has designed a series of movements that activate the muscles in such a way that they are very, very quick to tone up and trim those muscles. It also works on the lymphatic system etc. so it’s really healthy. It only takes 15 minutes each day to see a difference in a week, and FEEL the difference. I love it.
Melissa A. Williams said:
can you explain more about it?
Just wondering how you are for sleeping? You mention soft cushions fir sitting. My tn is horrible at night, some nights are almost sleepless. The mornings are always bad! But i am wondering now maybe the pillows? I dont know, i guess i am grasping for anything to stop this!
Although many patients report that their TN can be aggravated by tension in the neck, and some patients report pain relief from cervical chiropractic, there really aren’t any muscles that directly impact or pull upon the nerve and surrounding structures, unless the full neck and skull are wrenched (as in whiplash injury). So I strongly doubt that sitting in a soft chair, or poor posture has anything to do with your pain, Anne. That said, if T-Tapp exercises contribute to your general feeling of well-being, and do not trigger more pain, then by all means explore that avenue. A program of non-impact mildly aerobic exercise can be very constructive in all forms of pain control, by increasing blood levels of dopamine.
I wondered about pillows too because I had a very sore neck for about a year prior to getting TN and my physiotherapist said that getting the pillows exactly right (I.e. Shoulder width so that the neck is straight when you lie on your side) is vital to a healthy neck. Now that my TN seems to be in a sort of remission, it’s very mild at worst and not there some days, I think pillows don’t cause it for me. But I wouldn’t rule out any cause for any individual. Whatever works for you. xxx
Mamma said:
Just wondering how you are for sleeping? You mention soft cushions fir sitting. My tn is horrible at night, some nights are almost sleepless. The mornings are always bad! But i am wondering now maybe the pillows? I dont know, i guess i am grasping for anything to stop this!
I have given up sitting on my ultra comfy sofa and I’m in remission. I did test my theory by sitting there again for one night and next day the intensity had increased! Coincidence maybe but it works for me. A slack blood vessel can’t be restored to it’s younger status by posture but I would imagine that slouching can cause things to move even microscopically and that’s all it takes for that vessel to touch the nerve. As for T-Tapp, much as I love it it was also something new in my life just before my TN presented. So it too is implicated and it too is strongly connected with posture. So I’m reluctantly doing without it at the moment. I may have found out just this week why the myelin sheath wore off the nerve. It’s complicated so I’m posting it separately.
Richard A. “Red” Lawhern said:
Although many patients report that their TN can be aggravated by tension in the neck, and some patients report pain relief from cervical chiropractic, there really aren’t any muscles that directly impact or pull upon the nerve and surrounding structures, unless the full neck and skull are wrenched (as in whiplash injury). So I strongly doubt that sitting in a soft chair, or poor posture has anything to do with your pain, Anne. That said, if T-Tapp exercises contribute to your general feeling of well-being, and do not trigger more pain, then by all means explore that avenue. A program of non-impact mildly aerobic exercise can be very constructive in all forms of pain control, by increasing blood levels of dopamine.