# Real Time Audio Chat 2-4 PM Friday August 19

**URL:** <https://forum.livingwithfacialpain.org/t/real-time-audio-chat-2-4-pm-friday-august-19/12715>\
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**Created:** [August 15, 2016, 5:22pm UTC](https://forum.livingwithfacialpain.org/t/real-time-audio-chat-2-4-pm-friday-august-19/12715 "2016-08-15T17:22:47Z")\
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**Post date:** [August 15, 2016, 5:22pm UTC](https://forum.livingwithfacialpain.org/t/real-time-audio-chat-2-4-pm-friday-august-19/12715/1 "2016-08-15T17:22:47Z")

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Dear friends,

On Friday August 19th, at 2-4 PM Eastern Daylight Time I will  
moderate a free real-time audio chat for patients and family members who  
deal with or support others who have chronic neurological face pain or  
related medical issues (Typical or Atypical Trigeminal Neuralgia,  
Anesthesia Dolorosa, TMJ Disorder, Eagle Syndrome, Facial neuropathic  
pain, traumatic facial injury, other face pain of undetermined origins).  
I will address any question in this general domain, including causes of  
face pain, co-morbidities, diagnosis, treatment, impact on family and  
social relationships, etc. The experience of other participants is also  
invited.

The venue for this interaction will be [http://www.livesupportgroup.com/](http://www.livesupportgroup.com/)  
To participate, you will need to go to the site and register an email  
address by Wednesday evening August 17th. You will receive advance  
invitations to participate in this session and others held regularly on  
many chronic pain issues. You may opt out at any time. Your identity  
will be protected and your address data will never be shared with third  
parties. Advance registration allows discussion oversight to ensure that  
no individual dominates the exchange and all participants are greeted  
with respect and support.

I am the spouse of a chronic face pain patient. I come to this session  
with a 20-year history of personal study and thousands of patient  
interactions in multiple online forums including the US TN Association,  
Living With TN (in the Ben’s Friends group), [About.com](http://About.com),  
WebMD, and others. Although I am not a medical professional, I wrote  
and coordinated validation of the most recent TN Fact Sheet at US NINDS,  
and edited most of the Wikipedia article on Atypical TN. I have also  
written widely as a patient advocate and critic of mainstream  
psychiatry, on issues attending the misapplication of so-called  
psychosomatic medicine to chronic pain patients.

All are welcome.

Regards, Red Lawhern