# Why do we get TN symptoms?

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**Created:** [August 31, 2010, 6:24pm UTC](https://forum.livingwithfacialpain.org/t/why-do-we-get-tn-symptoms/9406 "2010-08-31T18:24:35Z")\
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**Author:** ![Erin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/67e7ee/32.png) [@Erin](https://forum.livingwithfacialpain.org/u/Erin)\
**Post date:** [August 31, 2010, 6:24pm UTC](https://forum.livingwithfacialpain.org/t/why-do-we-get-tn-symptoms/9406/1 "2010-08-31T18:24:35Z")

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The articles that explain TN on this and other sites offer great info.... explains the symtoms of TN...what we are all going thru and how each of us differs but also how we are all united by TN.  
  
I get all this - BUT, my biggest question is why is the blood vessel now touching the nerve and why does it sometimes just go into remission? (can you tell my meds are wearing off...my brain in thinking)   
  
Could the blood vessel be swelling due to a restriction in another part of the blood vessel? By plaque or other. If some plaque were to loosen and move the blood would flow again...remission?   
  
I don't know....but we are all suffering and doctors only seem to want to treat the symptoms and not the causes....pain off the chart.....or......side effects that just suck immensely.....or.....very scary surgery! ugh!   
  
There must be a cause or a number of causes. Had anyone had their juguar tested for blockages....similarly to what is being done for MS sufferers? It took forever for this to be considered for MS. Maybe it can help many other ailments too.  
  
Thanks for giving me the forum to express my thoughts on TN. Please feel free to pook holes in all I have said. (be gentle...drugs make me somewhat sensitive.) I am just tossing my current thoughts out there for others to think about too.   
  
Hoping you are all having a pain free (and double vision free) day!!! :)

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**Author:** ![vesper\_v](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/e19b73/32.png) [@vesper\_v](https://forum.livingwithfacialpain.org/u/vesper_v)\
**Post date:** [September 24, 2010, 1:45am UTC](https://forum.livingwithfacialpain.org/t/why-do-we-get-tn-symptoms/9406/2 "2010-09-24T01:45:56Z")

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the theory behind so-called remissions in TN is the nerve repairs its myelin sheath within an amount of time and has a new layer of protection against the blood vessel. however, the blood vessel is always beating against the nerve, so it is a mater of time before the myelin is worn away again, and the attacks resume.

remissions vary in people due to different reasons; some people have thick myelin, some people have thin. attacks worsen over time because myelin usually does not rebuild itself as strongly with each successful breakdown of matter.

i have often wondered why TN patients are not given certain meds MS patients take, which work to repair the myelin on nerves. seems to me it would help to stretch remissions out over time.

doctors don’t even agree that compressions are the real cause of TN. but that’s a discussion for another time.

vesper