Chiropractic Patient Testimonial: Diane Recovers from Trigeminal Neuralgia Pain
Trigeminal neuralgia (TN) is a chronic pain condition involving the trigeminal nerve, which transmits sensory feedback between your face and brain.
As a result, pain from the simplest actions such as brushing your teeth or putting washing your face isn’t uncommon.
Diane, one of our latest new patients at Revelation Health Centre, offered to share her experience at our clinic for everyone to hear.
Here is her patient testimonial complete with a timeline regarding her symptoms from TN:
Past History of Trigeminal Pain
April 2011
Start of facial/trigeminal (TN) pain, left and right side, both upper and lower jaw
January 2013
Started NUCCA (upper cervical chiropractic). After six treatments, my pain was gone.
April 2014
Another bout of TN – upper left jaw
September 2014
Put on tegretol – TN pain went away, but had extreme rib cage pain
June 2015
TN pain – left side and lower jaw. I started tegretol again. I developed an allergic reaction within 3 days.
September 2015
Stared NUCCA again. Helped some at first but by December I was in a lot of pain. I couldn’t eat, talk, drink, brush my teeth without triggering electric shocks.
I’ve seen my General Practitioner, Dentist, Neurologist and Neuro Surgeon. Results were a series of drugs that had umpteen side effects, totally ZONKED me and gave me no relief from pain.
June 2016
I had 8 NUCCA treatments. Helped a bit but then made me worse – left jaw swollen and in constant pain with electric shocks on the right.
July 4, 2016
After a couple of phone calls, I decided to give Dr. John Battershill a try. The first meeting was about ¾ hour long. I filled out numerous questionnaires and Dr. John did numerous tests to determine neurological function.
His diagnosis was that I had “lots” of mental and physical problems stemming from my brain; that I was a “complicated case, but he believed he could help.”
Results
Thus far, I’ve had 12 treatments and have done a home exercise program prescribed by Dr. John.
With just 4 treatments the pain subsided considerably. Today I have NO PAIN!
Other Noted Changes:
- Very few headaches
- Less dry eyes (my eyes are clearer)
- No more left nasal sore (It’s been there 15 years)
- No grinding of teeth.
- My head is in a much better position
- Ear lobes almost match (Right lobe was half inch higher)
- Eye lashes are appearing
- Much more neck and shoulder mobility
- I can actually pick up debris from the floor
- I don’t clench my fists when idle or sleeping.
- I’m not dropping things constantly. Putting caps on tubes and putting on jewellery has become easier.
- My hands are not swollen. I can almost close my arthritic finger.
- I can sit without constantly shifting my hip
- No sciatic pain which I have had since July 2011
- My BALANCE has improved immensely. I used to bump into walls, could not do heel/toe walking, needed stakes in my garden for support.
- My diarrhea, which I had since 2008 is much improved. At its worse, I urgently had to go up to 12 times/day. Today, 2-3 times with no urgency and no explosion.
- Almost off all medications
Going Forward
My whole physical and mental function is constantly evolving for the “better” me. I hope to make the positive changes permanent.
It is my goal to NEVER, NEVER, NEVER experience nerve pain again.
If I have to have maintenance care to achieve that, I can live with that. I wasn’t living before, just existing.
– Diane
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