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Pain starts inside top lip

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Grex
Grex

This new bout, after a year of remission, seemed to started after the dentist filled a tooth. The pain starts from just inside the right top lip, but not from the teeth, and the pain jumps up the face to the head If I touch the lip , talk or grin. If I squeeze the lip hard the pain seems to diminish for a while. Tegretol, Lyrica, and now Neurotin, doesn't seem to work. The neurologist doesn't believe in balloon or glycerol injection and  reckons it might be a tumour and I'm having a MRI on Friday.

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  • tanee2
    tanee2 Grex

    Posted

    I heavily recommend Lamotrogine it has changed my life.I couldnt live a normal life, i was crying all the time (i am not a cryer) just in so much pain. I could kiss, eat, talk or do any normal acvtivities. Nothing was working and i had all but given up .. 

    Once you pass the insomnia and dizziness, it is well worth it!

    • tanee2
      tanee2

      Posted

      I heavily recommend Lamotrogine it has changed my life.I couldnt' live a normal life, i was crying all the time (i am not a cryer) just in so much pain. I couldn't kiss, eat, talk or do any normal acvtivities. Nothing was working and i had all but given up .. 

      Once you pass the insomnia and dizziness, it is well worth it!

    • angiegirl
      angiegirl tanee2

      Posted

      I'm on Lamotrogine as well and I take it with Tegratol and gabapentine

      you do get side effects to start with but stick with it and you will find that it's well worth it. 

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