clutchdust
Millionaire Playboy
I haven't really mentioned this before, because who cares, right? But I've had a mysterious, sometimes debilitating, condition on the right side of my head. I've had some truly bazaar symptoms like my hair hurts, shaving hurts my teeth, my lower lip is numb, my ear drum feels like it's being stabbed with a pin, metallic taste and the right side of my tongue is numb. Plus I've had a headache, the same headache, since March of last year.
I'm a VA guy since this all started while I was self employed. And most of you who are VA can vouch for this, but the service is really pretty good, but don't be in a rush.
So after several visits with my primary, the ENT and a osteo specialist. Over the last few months we've been chiseling away at this by process of elimination and have more or less concluded it is some kind of neuralgia. So today I finally saw a neurologist. Fortunately it doesn't look like it's trigeminal neuragia, one of the most painful conditions known to man. What we now suspect is glossopharyngeal(?) neuralgia. Not as bad as TN, but it's no party. So she has bumped me up on the one drug that has diminished the effects. I have to get an (another) MRI next month to rule out a couple other possibilities, like cancer or an aneurysm. The bad part is that the diagnosis is a process of elimination because the cause is seldom large enough to show up on imaging or blood tests. If this proves to be the case I may be on anti seizure medicine....well....?
I'm a VA guy since this all started while I was self employed. And most of you who are VA can vouch for this, but the service is really pretty good, but don't be in a rush.
So after several visits with my primary, the ENT and a osteo specialist. Over the last few months we've been chiseling away at this by process of elimination and have more or less concluded it is some kind of neuralgia. So today I finally saw a neurologist. Fortunately it doesn't look like it's trigeminal neuragia, one of the most painful conditions known to man. What we now suspect is glossopharyngeal(?) neuralgia. Not as bad as TN, but it's no party. So she has bumped me up on the one drug that has diminished the effects. I have to get an (another) MRI next month to rule out a couple other possibilities, like cancer or an aneurysm. The bad part is that the diagnosis is a process of elimination because the cause is seldom large enough to show up on imaging or blood tests. If this proves to be the case I may be on anti seizure medicine....well....?
