| Neuralgia notes |
[Nov. 21st, 2008|11:22 am] |
Morning news -- i celebrate Bush's extension of the Monterey Bay Marine Sanctuary to include the Davidson Sea Mount.
2002 : http://www.sanctuarysimon.org/monterey/sections/seamounts/project_info.php?projectID=100114&sec=sm
2006 : http://oceanexplorer.noaa.gov/explorations/06davidson/welcome.html
I spent a long time on a comment about immigration issues.
Car rental rates are weirdly variable. But, we have car and one night's hotel for our family visit.
Phone calls and spousal conversations later: now have some sketchy plans for next week.
I had another morning where i mulled over the trigeminal neuralgia possibility. I still don't see any other likely diagnosis although there's some possibility that TMJ (which i do have) could cause facial pain. None of the facial pain descriptions for TMJ match my experience.
I know i've had this pain occurring off and on for at least three years, but possibly back to 2002. I remember driving back from Mt Shasta thinking i'd gotten some chemical reaction from the pillow case or something. That had to be 2002, then there was one fall when we were still with Kaiser where i thought drinking pear cider was triggering the pain -- 2005? I suppose the fact that i found it very hard to work Wednesday afternoon is part of why i care now.
Atypical Trigaminal Neuralgia (ATN), or Type 2 Trigeminal Neural
Most of what i've read about the issue makes it seem like treatments that might be used are far more problematic than the immediate sensation. If the pain gets much worse or more frequent, that might change. So, this morning, after someone casually said, "Oh you should get that looked into," i struggled with *WHY*. Does the list of annoying conditions i have really need ONE MORE?
Christine suggested a staged process with writing my doctor by email, and asking her for next steps. Why, i continued to ask. Christine's point is that a diagnosis, even if it's not one i act upon, acts as a "vote." I become one more in the statistics of this supposedly rare condition and perhaps that will help in epidemiology and research.
Another possibility is we have good health care now. If i have the diagnosis now, if the pain gets more frequent and more intense later i won't have to go through the frustrations of getting it diagnosed again.
I wonder about preexisting condition clauses.
UPDATE:
[Mar. 20th, 2003|06:34 am]
Last night I went to be early, although it seemed so late to me. Some canker-like sore at the far back of my jaw had been inflamed all day, leading my whole right side of my face to feel inflamed, swollen, and sore. I took the antihistamine and a Naproxen Sodium -- we don't seem to have any real aspirin in the house. The sensitivity is much reduced this morning.
[Apr. 4th, 2005|08:03 am]
Haven't recorded anything in a bit. Friday, dermatologist, no news, really (except i forgot to complain about a number of things that will have not made a difference). I did mention the searing heat pain i have been feeling, and the doctor mentioned the trigeminal nerve and that i should take ibuprofen or aleve. OK, i said. Now, reading about Atypical Facial Pain (ATFP), i get a little anxious. She's the dermatologist. I got the sense of, "Oh, that's just some inflammation of your cranial nerves. Nothing to do with your skin."
[Jul. 11th, 2006|06:35 am]
I did cycle to work, but i was not particularly present. I made observations, but i was in a rush in the morning and in a mood on the ride home. I think I'm suffering some form of immune system flare. The tightness and discomfort in my throat, the feeling of a chemical burn on the left side of my face, a bunch of bumps on the top of my left ankle, different bumps on my neck -- a list of whiny irritations that do come to some non-negligable sum.
[May. 24th, 2007|07:16 am]
Health: yesterday morning 9 ish, my bottom right lip start swelling, took claritin hives med 9:30 ish, and the swelling was gone by 11. * This past weekend i had a great deal of sinus pain, and it's like the pain crept down the side of my face to my wind pipe. It's around the deep jugular and spinal accessory lymph nodes, but is just pain, no swelling. This vaguely reminds me of a "sore throat" i had in the 90's which was eventually written off to TMJ.
[Oct. 23rd, 2007|11:10 pm]
Health noete -- the burning sensation i had onthe left side of my face Sunday, migrated back to my scalp yesterday and made brushing my hair painful. It's now fading. So bloody odd.
[Nov. 20th, 2008|07:31 am]
Health:
Tuesday: air looked ugly, noticed breathlessness when doing singing exercise driving to work, otherwise average day
Wednesday: spare the air day, throat progressively sore, gums hurt, scalp hurt/rash continued, sinuses hurt -- feels like some flare? Some body ache that can't be blamed on Sunday's gardening.
This morning: from top of chest up, i feel inflamed/irritated. I *know* i took the antihistamine last night. The inflamed feeling doesn't correlate with Christine's external observation of my forehead temperature. Right now it's mostly the left side in pain. Throat sore, sinuses painful. My gums don't hurt at least -- yesterday my back teeth felt like they must be rotten. Mostly though, my face just under my skin feels like it's burnt, like a sun burn. |
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