The journey I have gone down the last couple months has been life changing. A couple months ago I stated having pain above my upper molars on the left side. At first it was consistent so I went to the dentist. They took X-rays which did not show sighs of an abscessed tooth. I then went to the doctor who said I had a sinus infection. By this point the pain was coming and going. It was shooting within my nerves on my left side. I wnt back to the doctor who stated I had TN. I was put on anti-seziure medication. It helped for a week and had to be increases. The side effects were awful so they switched my medication. Again, it helped for awhile but the pain came back. However, this time it was not quite the same. I still had shooting pain but it was on both sides at times and I had consistent pain in my upper molars. I went for an MRI. The MRI was normal. At my last appointment I told my doctor I was going back to the dentist to have my tooth rechecked. They took new x-rays and my tooth was severely abscessed. I had a root canal on Thursday with a specialist who said he is pretty sure that was what was causing all my other nerve pain.
I’m keeping my fingers crossed that this is truly the cause and not a trigger.
Please keep us posted on this. My TN, I was sure at first, was related to a tooth, but every visit to have it looked at for a root canal resulted in the doctor telling me I did not need it. Recently, I have had a lot of swelling with my TN and now when I press on the swollen area of my face, it shoots pain to a tooth (but the tooth and gum look and feel normal.) Did you have anything ie. swelling around that tooth or was it looking and feeling somewhat normal? The doctors are asking me if I have a sinus infection this go around. I don't and if I do, I think "why don't they give me some sinus medication to see if it clears it up?"My MRI is also normal. Curious to see how you feel after this....
I just finished posting in Stef’s topic about atypical TN. I was explaining that amdentist found an inflamed nerve in one of my molars and did a root canal and the pain went from excruciating and lasting for hours at a time to “flurries”. I too was hoping that the pain
would go away completely because the tooth nerve was setting off the trigeminal nerve and not the other way around. Sadly it wasn’t so but hey, I can live with the odd shock that doesn’t last more than a second or two. Keep us posted. I’m very interested. My first dentist took out the filli g and looked into the tooth but didn’t see the inflamed nerve. A second dentist looked in to the same tooth and found it so get a second opinion. Best of luck.
Tania said:
TammyJean,
Please keep us posted on this. My TN, I was sure at first, was related to a tooth, but every visit to have it looked at for a root canal resulted in the doctor telling me I did not need it. Recently, I have had a lot of swelling with my TN and now when I press on the swollen area of my face, it shoots pain to a tooth (but the tooth and gum look and feel normal.) Did you have anything ie. swelling around that tooth or was it looking and feeling somewhat normal? The doctors are asking me if I have a sinus infection this go around. I don’t and if I do, I think "why don’t they give me some sinus medication to see if it clears it up?"My MRI is also normal. Curious to see how you feel after this…