Hi everybod. I hope you are all well and painfree!
I would like to share my strangest and most confusing symptom with you and wonder if any of you has experienced something similar.
My TN started in my eyes and was for a long time believed to be some kind of allergy. One of the reasons why was that mascara seemed to make it much worse. I finaly stopped wearing any and the pain spread to other areas of my face and I was diagnosed with TN. I tried several kinds of mascara (even hypoallergenic) but my eyes always started to flare up. Finally I came across a mascara I could wear without any problems. I have been using this mascara for more then a year now. I started thinking that my eyes just happen to hurt because of the TN indifferent ot the mascaraI was wearing (as this was also before I started any medication) and tried another one yesterday. My eyes are now killing me and the pain is definately TN pain. It is also not just on and around my eyes but also on my cheekbones and eybrows where the mascara definately did not touch my skin, Could the allergy cause a flare up? Does anybody else have something similar?
Well. Not sure if this is helpful but I now wear barely any make up as applying and definitely removing causes lots of pain. This aspect of our condition is infuriating. If it isnt bad enough to feel this bad I have to walk around ugly too! Lots of love Deanna x
I have been fortunate that I have not had pain in my eye. It’s does hit my cheekbone and temple when it’s really bad though. However I have noticed just recently that when I have makeup on sometimes it irritates me so much that I have to just wash it off. Once I get my eye area clean it feels so much better. It’s not my eye that feels it, it seems to bother my face. I hadn’t really thought about it till reading this post but maybe it’s just having something heavy on your eye instead of an allergy. I know makeup doesn’t seem like it would weigh anything but I get so sensitive sometimes that even a piece of hair bothers me. But it would make perfect sense that an allergic reaction would cause inflammation and I believe inflammation could definitely be a trigger…seems like there’s always so much to consider here. Good luck, I hope you find something that works. I know that when I’m able to wear makeup and look “normal” I feel more normal. But I’m definitely wearing less, maybe once a week if I’m up to it. Anyways just some thoughts
Good grief - how can you even apply make-up when your TN is flaring? I cannot even blink my eye, much less wash my face or consider applying make up! Just leave off the mascara, then see what happens. However, I will have to admit that the problem with my eyelid just arose on this most recent flare up! What an unpredictable demon afflicts us all . . .
