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(Message started by: floridian on Oct 18^th, 2006, 9:43am)

Title: Metal in Mouth Causes Trigeminal Neuralgia
Post by floridian on Oct 18^th, 2006, 9:43am

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CHICAGO – The teenager said the stabbing pains in her face felt like electrical shocks that lasted 10 to 30 seconds and struck 20 to 30 times a day.

Her doctors diagnosed trigeminal neuralgia, a nerve disorder sometimes called "suicide disease" because of the excruciating and dispiriting pain it causes.

Doctors tried painkillers, then stronger medication, but in the end, a cure proved more simple: The young woman removed the metal stud from her pierced tongue.

Two days later her pain vanished.

http://www.spokesmanreview.com/nation_world/story.asp?ID=155070

More evidence that any injury or disturbance around the mouth, jaw, or sinuses can set up a neural circuit that leads to problems.

Title: Re: Metal in Mouth Causes Trigeminal Neuralgia
Post by Melissa on Oct 18^th, 2006, 9:45am

What about metal fillings? I wonder if that has any correlation. :-/

Title: Re: Metal in Mouth Causes Trigeminal Neuralgia
Post by floridian on Oct 18^th, 2006, 9:54am

Maybe fillings are occasionally a contributor - not worth taking them out for that possibility. Just don't chew on foil! And make sure that you have a good dentist, so that when your fillings act like a radio reciever, it is tuned to a station that you like.

I don't have many fillings, just a deviated septum, chronic sinus problems, and TMJ.

Title: Re: Metal in Mouth Causes Trigeminal Neuralgia
Post by seasonalboomer on Oct 18^th, 2006, 10:05am

"Doctors tried painkillers, then stronger medication, but in the end, a cure proved more simple: The young woman removed the metal stud from her pierced tongue"

This also amazingly cured the nagging lisp that she had developed around the same time of the installation of the metal stud in her tongue...........

:-/

scott

Title: Re: Metal in Mouth Causes Trigeminal Neuralgia
Post by LeeS on Oct 18^th, 2006, 10:10am

Quote:

Two days later her pain vanished.

Maybe she had been misdiagnosed and has just gone into remission :-/

I wonder what would happen if she put the stud back in ::)

-Lee

Title: Re: Metal in Mouth Causes Trigeminal Neuralgia
Post by nani on Oct 18^th, 2006, 10:13am

Here's what confuses me...
even if the stud is out, the hole is still there. Wouldn't that be what irritated the nerve?
~nani who is NOT a fan of piercing any mucous membranes

Title: Re: Metal in Mouth Causes Trigeminal Neuralgia
Post by Paul98 on Oct 18^th, 2006, 10:34am

I never could figure out why people wanted to get oral/facial hardware. Some things just weren't supposed to be pierced!

-P.

Title: Re: Metal in Mouth Causes Trigeminal Neuralgia
Post by Peppermint on Oct 18^th, 2006, 10:52am

on 10/18/06 at 10:13:43, nani wrote:

Here's what confuses me...
even if the stud is out, the hole is still there. Wouldn't that be what irritated the nerve?
~nani who is NOT a fan of piercing any mucous membranes

I would think its the constant friction of the stud itself in upper and lower part of the mouth. There are connections to cranial nerves in those regions.

http://info.med.yale.edu/caim/cnerves/resources/title/title_art.jpg

more detailed:
http://www.michigan-headache-tmj-doctor.com/images/cranial2.jpg

Title: Re: Metal in Mouth Causes Trigeminal Neuralgia
Post by LeLimey on Oct 18^th, 2006, 1:11pm

on 10/18/06 at 10:34:53, Paul98 wrote:

I never could figure out why people wanted to get oral/facial hardware. Some things just weren't supposed to be pierced!

-P.

elaborate ;;D

Title: Re: Metal in Mouth Causes Trigeminal Neuralgia
Post by LeeS on Oct 18^th, 2006, 1:17pm

on 10/18/06 at 10:52:57, Peppermint wrote:

I would think its the constant friction of the stud itself in upper and lower part of the mouth.

Ooooh - my kinda gal ;) ;;D

-Lee

Title: Re: Metal in Mouth Causes Trigeminal Neuralgia
Post by Tiannia on Oct 18^th, 2006, 2:20pm

on 10/18/06 at 13:11:42, LeLimey wrote:

elaborate ;;D

My husband like my tongue pierced. ;;D

Title: Re: Metal in Mouth Causes Trigeminal Neuralgia
Post by seasonalboomer on Oct 18^th, 2006, 2:33pm

on 10/18/06 at 14:20:53, Tiannia wrote:

My husband like my tongue pierced. ;;D

actually meaning:
mah huthbund lahk mah tun pierthed

Title: Re: Metal in Mouth Causes Trigeminal Neuralgia
Post by Tiannia on Oct 18^th, 2006, 3:17pm

on 10/18/06 at 14:33:49, seasonalboomer wrote:

actually meaning:
mah huthbund lahk mah tun pierthed

No I was one of the lucky ones that my tongue did not swell. I had to have teh shop order a shorter rod for the stud because they where all too long. So I never lisped. The only way people knew my tongue was pierced was if they where sitting and I was standing and talking to them, they would see a little bit of metal.

But I changed jobs and the mormons that I went to work for where too conservative for that, and I had to take it out.