Trigeminal Update March 9

There’s not much to report but so many of you have expressed concern for me I wanted to give you a new update. My last update is pretty much the same as now. No pain in my lower right jaw or cheek. There is some additional numbness in my right eyebrow, right side of my nose and my right upper lip area.

Some of the outcomes they discussed in my preprocedure meeting:

Not eliminating the pain.

Biting the inside of my cheek or tongue.

Drooping face, cheek or mouth.

Drooling from the corner of my mouth.

Additional numbness in areas not specifically targeted.

Of these warnings the only one I have to deal with is some additional numbness that wasn’t specifically a targeted area. It’s been 3 weeks since the procedure and I can report the pain is still gone. The extra numbness I have is a nuisance. All in all so far this is been a great trade-off. Numbness traded for pain. If it stays this way “I’ll take it” it won’t be till the end of the month that I meet again with the neurosurgeon. My one question I will have will be “how often does the pain return after an immediate success like I have experienced?”

Not sure when I can declare this procedure a full success but for now it’s good.