The last past two days have been so wracked with severe pain, I have been unable to concentrate or sleep. At one point, I couldn't even finish a sentence I was saying because talking just hurt my mouth that bad. I feel like my face is a rubber gum band, ready to snap at any moment. Now add tons of pain to it. Yesterday was the worst- I thought I was going to go delusional or mad from all the pain. At one point, I stood in the bathroom crying thinking "if this is my life..."
I took neurontin, vicodin yesterday. Neither one of those touched the pain. I resorted to putting ice on my face and gums and that barely touched the pain either. I put some biofreeze ( max freeze) underneath my lip and was finally able to fall asleep, not because the pain lessened, but because I think I just passed out from exhaustion around 3am.
I seen the oral surgeon yesterday. He says he does not believe that my nerve was cut, but was retracted on too far and that a "few" of them were bumped into. I also have occular nerve involvement and paralysis of the 7th nerve. The V2 and V3 of the trigeminal branch, mandibular, lingual and inferior nerves I just want to rip out and throw across the room. Im at a low point and just dont really know what to do for myself. The numbness is once again changing- going from that dead dead to waking up feeling is VERY painful. So when will the pain leave? Looks like in over a year ... so they say. Help to all of us because we are gonna need it.
This all has my mood way down. I can't take it anymore.