I went to an event a week ago and that evening I was quickly and violently brought back into a Trigeminal Neuralgia episode. The muscles on the right side of my face quivvered, the nerves throughout that side of my face sent debilitating shock waves. I realized it was because I did my best to smile and converse with people for several hours. I drugged myself Lorazepam, Lyrica, and Oxycodone. Things finally calmed down.
Since then my facial muscles are in a Bells Palsy mode, my eye on that side feels dry and sticky, and my face has continuing nerve pain when it's touched. I believe that pain is called allydonia.
This got me thinking about my atypical facial pain diagnosis and looking up information on Bells Palsy.
I believe now that I have Bells Palsy with Trigeminal Neuralgia initiated by facial trauma that happened in two phases. First, when I initially had a root canal and the tooth root was broken delivering the bleach solution into my facial tissue causing extensive facial swelling and pain. Second, when that tooth had the second root canal and my mouth was opened too wide for a prolonged period of time damaging the Trigeminal nerve and facial muscles. Had I known that would happen, I would have had the tooth pulled instead of trying to keep it. I wish I could go back in time and change that decision. I eventually had that tooth pulled to see if it would help but the damage had already been done.
I guess I need to go back to one of my chiropractors that worked on my face to get it to calm down. Once it's calmed down I may try some facial retraining exercises given to Bells Palsy patients to see if I can try to strengthen my facial muscles slowly so I'm not slammed with another episode from trying to smile and enjoy some company.
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