PHN alternative therapies herbs supplements...anything

I really hopes that this helps anyone who has these issues of severe pain , numbness, tingling etc. Some days are worse then others. I have this intermittent pain all throughout the day and all the research, doctors , specialist, dentists, chiropractors and alternative healing I have come to a couple of things that help.

It's very rare to have the pain like I do all the time. Pain like this lasting over a year is unheard of. I have been to the very best doctors in NYC. For a while we just thought it was trigeminal neuralgia which is all called by another name affecting the 5th cranial nerve nick named the suicide disease. I could go into a long complaint about all the things I tried and all the money I spent but I feel that would be just be a waste. You need to calm that nerve down and a Benozdiazpine is the best way to get relief. Which is Activan, Valium, , Zanax ( to strong) or Klonopin. I take klonopin because it lasts the longest and it doesn't kick your butt like zanax or Activan. Like I said I tried everything and I was got lucky because I went to a dentist seeking relief from this mysterious PHN (I never got a rash & barely had chicken pox when I was a kid) This dentist just wanting to take advantage of my insurance told me my wisdom teeth were impacted and and I was grinding my teeth from TMJ so to slow the grinding down he gave me a mouth guard and prescription for zanax. Before he pulled my teeth I noticed the tingling, numbness and burning sensation went away but did not connect it to the zanax right away. Long story short he pulled my teeth and the problem was not solved so I went to the neurologist and explained the situation and we realized it was the zanax. I did not want to take zanax because it was way to powerful. I decided on Klonopin and it has been my saving grace. You have to be very careful with Klonpin because it is a schedule 1 classified narcotic. Many people abuse it and it is habit forming. Doctors where giving me hydro codone and it wouldn't phase these sharp shooting pains around my eye , forehand , sometimes above the lip and would go bi-lateral when it got really bad. I was lucky to stumble upon it. Like I said I tried everything, amitriptiline, gabapentin, lyrica, you name it I tried it but it is the Klonopin that get me normal. Just be wise with it and explain the situation to a good doctor because people that do all that doctor shopping and garbage like that ruin it for people like us that have real symptons. 4 years ago Klonopin was a schedule 3, Gabapentin wasn't even scheduled but people find ways to abuse it and now even that is a scheduled drug. Plus without insurance those prescriptions can be extremely expensive.

   Hope that helped

I've been injecting with pet vitamins for over three years now. Injections are typically 125mg of B1 and 1mg of B12 intramuscularly, and would have around 100 injection a year. I also take a multi b and vitamin d. I had v1 shingles, made worse by being on dimethyl fumarate and starting antivirals late. No eye damage thankfully. Sensation has returned to the skin (eye, forehead, scalp), but I still get itchy and the underlying bone still feels weird, especially under my eyebrow. Healing is very slow, but at least I am healing and not a prescription drug addict as can so easily happen with this horrible affliction.