Welcome to the Group. Lots of good info and lots on nice people.

I have alot of face pain but no numbness.

I would check any meds your on to see if this could be a side effect or an allergic reaction to something. I would check with your doctor and maybe get a referal to a neurologist to have it checked out.

Don't put everything down to fibro. We can still get other health problems and they may have better treatments.

Welcome to the Group again

Hugs & Prayers,
Mary

When that area flares up on me, I take a rice bag and heat in the microwave it helps to wrap it around my neck.

I also raise my shoulders, push them back then drop them, Helps relax the muscles in the upper area.

Just try to remain calm the pain will pass and move somewhere else sometime. I even been to the dentist a few times thinking something was wrong with my teeth but there wasnt, Just myofascial pain which is part of fibro

Hot baths help me.

Welcome! I have never experienced numbness in my face but the shoulder, neck pain and head pain are my worse pains. I have also been down the road of a trip to ER thinking I was having a heart attack. I do have panic attacks but I believe some of the pain I have in my chest is from FM. I have learned to somewhat deal with panic attacks with breathing exercises and of course the realization that it is a panic attack and not a heart attack. They are very uncomfortable. There is so much you can do that does not include prescriptions, please read as much as you can about FM and what others are doing to live a better life. Hugs, Celia

When I first got sick at the end of 1993, I went outside in the December weather to bring in some logs for the wood stove. It was then that I noticed that I couldn't feel the cold air on the left side of my face, including my eye. My lips mouth and tongue on the left side were also numb. Over the course of the next two weeks, I began to have my hands start to sting and then my feet two days afterward. I continued this way, feeling fine for two weeks and suddenly got a very strong and sickening dizzy spell. Nothing happened after that for about a week when I began to get a bad cold. Antibiotics seemed to have no effect and the cold ballooned in to something so monstrous that I was hospitalized. It was then that the excruciating pain wracked my whole body and I found myself with a severe case of Epstein-Barr Virus. I became totally disabled in agony day after day, flat on my back unable to tolerate even a pillow behind my head. I lay this way - completely flat for six months. I remember the day when I was finally able to sit up for one hour. These physical milestones were very slow in coming and relapses were frequent. I was in a wheelchair for two years. My child was two when I got sick. I lost a very lucrative Executive Sales Career making $80,000 the last year I worked. That was a bundle 17 years ago and it's a bundle today!

So numbness in the face is a common occurance in Fibromyalgia. My druggist told me that there is a form of Epstein-Barr Virus in Africa that actually causes one side of the patient's face to rot away, leaving their teeth exposed on one side in a nightmarish way.

Epstein-Barr Virus nearly killed me. But the severe Fibro that followed was as bad.

I know that is far too much information, but interesting nonetheless.

I always recommend that newbies subscribe to a non-profit organization called Fibromyalgia Network. It is supported by fibromyalgics and their families only. They produce a wonderful quarterly magazine that cites all the latest scientific studies and breakthroughs from around the world. No advertising so the Drug Companies and the AMA can't get their hands on it and skew the information their way. It only costs $28 a year and is well worth the price. You can also order what they call a "Research Back Pak" which contains the research from the past 6 back-issues for an additional $17. Then you'll be up to date on the disease.

You can request a list of fibro doctors in your area, too. You can reach them at 800-853-2929. Very accommodating people.

This is the best way to educate yourself on the disease besides being on Daily Strength. One other very important point I would like to make is that it is up to us as fibromyagics to learn everything we can and then educate our doctors, because they know next to nothing about the disease. I xerox copies of the articles in Fibromyalgia Network that apply to me and take them to my doctor's appointments. Knowledge is power and it is no more evident than when you use it in the doctor's office this way. I find that doctors are either too busy or too lazy to research the disease on their own, but only too eager to take it from my hand. So it is our responsibility to educate our own doctors. A sad state of affairs to say the least, but terribly necessary if we are to receive adequate treatment of our disease.

I wish you the best and will be happy to help you any way I can, so feel welcome to contact me if I can be of further service.

Mizroze

Welcome to the group! I have never had facial numbness though. take care

Welcome to the group and you're certainly not alone. When I first manifested with fibro symptoms it was the worst in my shoulder neck area too. I also had pretty bad TMJ. I didn't have numbness in the face but my whole jaw area was really tight and painfull.

Hot baths can be great. Put some epsom salts in there too. Epsom salts are rich in magnesium which is very beneficial for the muscles. I take a magnesium potassium supplement too. I get some relief by massaging the jaw area in circular motions.

If you need help with sleep (like most of us do) you might want to try the supplement 5-HTP. It helps the body produce serotonin in which most of us are deficient. Don't take this with an SSRI (antidepressant) as those block the brain's reuptake of serotonin.

You'll find lots of info and support here. Hugs

Welcome and hugs & prayers that you feel better soon!

Welcome to the group, i have never had numbness either i hope you get it all worked out.

Hello and welcome,

The jaw pain and numbness may be TMJ. A lot of us with FM have it.