No tn pain for two days. This morning woke up at two a.m. with temple pain and pain in BOTH cheek bones. Could not breath our of left nostril.
I have never thought this could be sinus, as my sinuses were totally clear, and no pain on the other side. Even now, it does not feel like any sinus infection I have EVER had in my 54 years.
I do remember an odd bad bad nose bleed about six weeks ago that I forgot about. I wonder if this could have anything to do with it. I guess the MRI will tell. They did with and without contrast.
Being a past cancer patient(thyroid), I am worried about something growing in there. It does not often go to other places in your body, but I talk to many people on my TC form that do have mets.
Regardless, I feel all kinds of weird things going on in my face, and am starting to feel a little ill.
I was taking a sinus spray when my first doc thought it was sinus, but it made my whole sinus go "electric zap" and when the second doc told me TN, I stopped using it, as it seemed to make it worse. Any comments would be helpful. I don't know if I should ask the doc for antibiotics to prevent being really sick by Monday or not. ????
I used to have both sinus pain and TN pain all at once, I have horrible sinus's . You may have both going on too. I had an MVD and the TN is gone, but before surgery the nose sprays would make my TN worse, it depends on whats in them.
I was told originally that my pain was a sinus infection..NOT< until I finally had someone diagnose TN. You know the difference if you have had sinus pain before, the TN pain makes it look like a walk in the park.
If you are worried that you are getting worse, I would check with the doctor. Having a sinus infection with TN has to be awful
I had to stop and reply to this...they also thought I had sinus problems I had severe pain in both my temples and my cheekbones and one side of my nostril always feels like I can't breathe out of it sometimes....I was put on several antibiotics and had a mri showing no sinus infection I have trigeminal neuralgia type 2 :( Unfortunately I still feel a lot of these feelings on a day to day basis I am on nortriptyline 75 mg a day which help some but unfortunately my life will never be the same
I have TN pain along with Pain on the other side, more like Migraine.
Low grade now, but a pain every few minuets. Drives me nuts. The deep brain pain bothers me the most.
Feel like a cracked water melon behind my eyes. I feel like my trigm. nerves are stressed for some reason. Wish I knew why. MRI showed migraine patterns, but I know its TN as well.
I can only hope symptoms will continue to improve.
I got a nose bleed after I had an endodontist redo a root canal on an upper tooth. My ENT then thought maybe it could have put a hole in the floor of my sinus.... Still don't know if that is true or not. But turned out I had severe infection in there and had to be cleaned out with surgery. But I still think it bled because of what the endo did and so does my ENT. Not much help to ya but I vent about this whenver I get the chance!!!!! LOL I always have cheekbone pain tho and have and I don't have any infection anymore. So it's very hard to tell if I would have an infection, if I did.
OMG sounds awfulll...I hope so too Redbird.. :( redbird2448 said:
I have TN pain along with Pain on the other side, more like Migraine.
Low grade now, but a pain every few minuets. Drives me nuts. The deep brain pain bothers me the most.
Feel like a cracked water melon behind my eyes. I feel like my trigm. nerves are stressed for some reason. Wish I knew why. MRI showed migraine patterns, but I know its TN as well.
I can only hope symptoms will continue to improve.
I take Effexor for my burning type 2 pain. It works prettty good. I haven't tried nortriptyline. I wanted to, but when my GP put me on effexor for depression it started working on the pain too. So I got lucky. I hope you feel better sooon. Maybe they can add something to your nortryptyline to help. ???
jstagrl29 said:
I had to stop and reply to this...they also thought I had sinus problems I had severe pain in both my temples and my cheekbones and one side of my nostril always feels like I can't breathe out of it sometimes....I was put on several antibiotics and had a mri showing no sinus infection I have trigeminal neuralgia type 2 :( Unfortunately I still feel a lot of these feelings on a day to day basis I am on nortriptyline 75 mg a day which help some but unfortunately my life will never be the same