I hope you all are doing well or as well as can be with TN!
I do have a question............. Has anyone ever been mis-diagonsed with TN when it was
actually a dental problem or TMJ??? OR has anyone suspected it was NOT TN??
Has anyone on this board had their wisdom teeth pulled which resulted in severe facial pain
for about a year and then went away??
This is all happening to me.. I do experience some pain every now and again in my ear or along the cheek bone. However, I grind my teeth like you wouldn't believe! My Orthodontist
was in shock when he saw the damage I had done from grinding my teeth (From all
the years of not knowing I was doing it). I only figured it out b/c my husband told me
, but also I woke up one morning when a chipped front tooth and you could tell too!!
It was something you could notice.
At any rate, I no longer take anything for the TN and have been fine for a long time.
I was just wondering if this has ever happened to anyone else????
I've heard of any number of cases like yours. There is an overlap in physical symptoms between TN, trigeminal neuropathy caused by dental work, TMJ, Complex Regional Pain Disorder, Eagle Syndrome, Cluster Headache, and a raft of other dental and neurological issues. This is one reason why diagnosis of TN is often based on a positive response to a short course of one of the anti-seizure drugs. Most of the other conditions don't improve from that sort of med.
One thing I think I can assert with reasonable authority is that pain deep in your ear is unlikely to be TMJ, even if you ALSO have a TMJ issue. I'd be intuitively concerned for what is called "geniculate neuralgia", a sort of specialized TN problem. For other input on the subject, I suggest you run a key word search in our search window at top right on our pages. You'll find a lot there on TMJ.
i couldn't understand something from your post : the doctor don't you you are grinding teeth- but is it the cause for pain ? you stopped the TN treatment - but do they offer other diagnosis ? are you pain free now ?
i could understand.
anyway -regarding you question : i've heard many stories of people removing tooth after tooth and still were left with the pain.
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i've heard SEVERAL REAL stories from people in my conutry - that doctors told them thier problem WASN'T dental.. and was even pshcyatric etc. and these patients after monthes of suffering removed the teeth - or done some other dental procedure and thier problem was SOLVED .they are CURED now. had they listened to thier doctors they would be still on the meds today.