Unfortunately I don’t know the exact steroid sorry 
He did say he was moving a little farther down then the last time and using something stronger…
Hmm ok, well keep us posted on how it progresses!
Hmmm so its been 3 days and I’m not really noticing any changes …the discharge paper they give you says the steroids take effect 3 to 5 days after. My question is since steroids into the nerve are not having an effect on me does that necessarily mean its not coming from the trigeminal nerve? Or are these shots so 50/50 anyways that it doesn’t prove anything?
If nerve blocks fail to work, it might indicate that your pain is centrally mediated (generated mostly in your brain) rather than being a dysfunction in your peripheral nerves. Look up the mechanism for phantom limb pain - before, it was thought that the pain was generated by peripheral neuromas, but it is now thought to be generated in the brain itself.
Toothache if that were the case what would treatment be? Same meds we are already taking im I’m sure. They can’t operate your brain if nothing is seen…what do you think?
Also I know you don’t know my whole background but my pain did not Start until the very day I had a permant retainer taken out. Its common sense no coincidence nerve damage occurred. How? I don’t know but it did…I don’t believe taking a retainer out would cause damage in the brain…I’m not exactly sure what your explaining though.
I know your just trying to help but it doesn’t help when you have daily pain and already have a million thoughts running threw your head to insuiate that someone has brain damage when they 99% don’t. Way to send someone’s anxiety haywire. Have a good weekend
Hi Jennifer,
I'm sorry if you misunderstood my explanation - centrally mediated pain is not "brain damage." People who have phantom limb pain also don't have any head trauma.
What happens is that something triggers the area in your brain that processes pain in your trigeminal nerve to continually send pain signals. This is NOT your fault or anything that you can consciously control. If the problem is only with your peripheral nerves, then nerve blocks, nerve sectioning, gamma knife, rhizotomy, etc. should control the pain. If the pain is actually a problem in your brain's pain processing system, then altering the peripheral nerves makes little difference, and in some cases, can increase your pain. This is something to be discussed with your doctor and not something that I can accurately diagnose over the internet.
The first thing to try in these cases is medications. If that doesn't help, then some neurosurgeons can perform motor cortex stimulation surgery which has a 70% success rate.
I hope this helps.