Multiple Sclerosis (MS) Support Group

no but thankyou for finally showing me that i can use the damn initials instead of trying to pronunce the word or spell it...grin...
cripes with lesions on our brains you would think they would come up with simpler terms being as alot of us already have cognitive issues...sigh...

It took the intense pain of TN to get me to the doctor and I was diag w/ TN last summer--although I had facial pain on/off for many years. I also have shock-like headaches, which my neuro calls occipital neuralgia. The doc gave me a shot in the back of the head, which has done nothing for my headaches (mostly one sided like the face pain), but the shot did help with the painful stiff neck and shoulder that I had for months. Before diagnosis, I had several root canals and two sinus surgeries. As I did research on the inet about TN, I began to come across articles on MS and how in some patients may be a factor in TN. I saw that many MS symptoms mimicked what I had always thought as clumsiness. I would trip or veer into desks or cubicles at work. I began to drop things and had a hard time concentrating. I would blame my sore wrists/elbows on possible carpel tunnel but they would only be sore one day and then fine the next. Most disterbing was my short-term memory loss.
>> To answer your question... I get pain in my right eye and ear frequently. I have shock-like headaches throughout the right side of my brain lasting only a few seconds, but it is as if someone was turning up a dimmer-light switch to increase the pain; this happens frequently throughout each day. Ear pain (not every day) feels like stabbing shock to my ear. Thinking I had an ear infection, I would go to my GP and my ear would be fine. On many occasions, the tip of my tongue goes numb.
I had an MRI of my head and there are no lesions, so maybe I only have TN, I don't know; but I do gain much comfort from the people on this site as I hope that you will.