Hi everyone,
My sister 39 old asked me to share her story here in this forum maybe someone can recommend her to do surgery or not, Sorry for bad grammar i translated it with Google translator.
Will update this post with more information about the surgery she made in details.
She wrote :
The first feeling of improvement was immediately after waking up from the operation.
I felt a great change in my heart, and the heartbeat was almost hidden and I did not feel it, an improvement rate of 100%, although I was sleeping on one pillow, and I felt a strange relief in the body, although the bout of eye pain and headache were strong after waking up From the process, thank God.
I had a very turbulent heartbeat, it increased very much as soon as I put my head on the pillow, I felt my heart throbbing strongly, and as soon as I sat it calmed down immediately, and also if I moved my head in certain directions during sleep sometimes it would twitch and sometimes in a certain position it would stop twitching).
After a while, I noticed a clear change while walking. I no longer felt a rapid heartbeat or I was out of breath from walking, thank God.
After about a month and a half, I noticed that the heart disorder returned by about 30%, especially when sleeping, and astonishment while walking or making an effort.
- About a week after the operation, I noticed a change in the sensation in the ear from the inside (I have a lack of sensation in some areas on the same side, external to the skin and internal.
I tried to move the side to make sure, and I found that I began to feel and move my ear and felt it, and there was a sensation of something that was almost dead in my ear from the inside, as if life had come into it, and I noticed a clear change in it.
But the improvement did not last for long. After a period of time, I do not remember how long it was. I tried to notice the change where it reached, and I found that it reached a certain limit and stopped.
I had a feeling like being stabbed by a knife, under the eye, with tingling and heat during bouts of pain. The doctors did not know the reason for this pain, and they all said that it was not within their specialties. I was directed to more than one specialty to treat it, but I did not find an answer for the cause of the pain. Pain Almost disappeared after the operation.
- The improvement is present so far, thank God, the feeling of pain has returned, but not with the same intensity.
I had severe bouts of vomiting during bouts of pain. Vomiting lasts for a whole day, severe irritation in the stomach. Currently, this symptom has disappeared since the operation until now. I only get a slight feeling, but I do not vomit, thank God.
After weeks, I noticed that the numbness and tingling that was in the face, throat, and under the tongue had disappeared, and even the tingling in the head (I felt sudden tingling in the head from the inside and the left eye), especially the one on the left side. The front of the head in the brain felt tingling. In it .
I was feeling something stuck in the neck, a swelling in the neck from the inside (which appeared suddenly in recent years) on the left side, the swelling subsided a little, and swallowing became better without a lump.
After about two months, I noticed:
A radical change in my condition, thank God. The headache almost disappeared. I felt stronger and healthier in my body (I used to feel like failure from the slightest effort).
- I was very tired and affected (I suffer from bouts of pain) from the cold and exposure to cold breezes or air conditioning, even if it was a simple direct exposure. I felt tingles and pain in my face and head.
It has all diminished or almost disappeared, thank God.
- I lived almost two weeks without taking a sedative. I lived a very normal life, thank God.
But after about two and a half months, the symptoms usually gradually,
*- The disturbance in the heart returned by 30% when prostrating and sleeping on the left side.
*- Numbness returned (the left side) in the throat, lighter in strength than before, but in a wider range after the operation, half of the tongue and the base of the tongue, the roof of the throat and the beginning of the pharynx, the jaw bone, and certain areas of the face, the outer skin, with a lack of sensation.
*- Headache attacks and related symptoms such as eye pain, heart disorder with a flutter, failure and general weakness in the body, dizziness, symptoms increase when moving the head or bending and when eating.
- The effect returned from the cold and muscular effort.
- Severe sensitivity with toothache, medically, there is no problem with the left side.
*- Pain and numbness under the jaw and ear, ascending to the jaw joint until it reaches under the eye (like stabbing a knife, but lighter than before). With failure and numbness, and even my left hand fails.
There is a strong sound in my ear, buzzing and humming, as if a river flows through it on the right side.
*- Since the operation until now, sometimes I feel that the voice started to be very sharp and strong, and from the strength of the voice, I feel that the nerves of the whole body are affected, and this sometimes (I had it continuously during severe pain attacks), thank God, and now it comes to me even without a pain attack.
*- I am currently sleeping on 3 pillows or semi-sitting (after the operation I was able to sleep on only one pillow, thank God),
- And when I try to sleep on one pillow, a headache begins and a strong pressure in the head, as if the blood in the whole body is in my head, and when the level of the head is raised, the symptoms immediately subside, thank God.
*- Chronic and strange pain in the neck from the back, and because of that I have insomnia and I do not sleep continuously. My sleep is intermittent, and there is no comfortable sleeping position."
Thanks for reading and i will add or update more info as i said later on.
PS: she did her first surgery and the doctor internally removed 2cm of styloid out of 4cm he did remove the left tonsil to acomplish this.
I am trying to add images but seems like i can’t
. With every bout of pain with failure and dizziness.
I went to an ear, nose and throat doctor, and he asked for a picture of the sinuses, and the result was normal, thank God. He directed me to a neurosurgeon, and after the examination, he asked for a resonance image on the head, and it was fine, and he asked for a neck x-ray, and he did not find anything. He requested an analysis for vitamin B12, and its percentage was It is very weak, so he gave me treatment and it increased to the normal level.
He gave me painkillers again, but they never worked for me. The pain continues and does not respond to painkillers. The pain attacks increased, as well as the symptoms: severe coldness in the body with perspiration and failure, dizziness, headache all over the head with tingling inside the head, I feel that my eyes will come out of their place, the veins of my head will explode. From the pressure, severe irritation in the stomach, and the food does not settle in the stomach, even saliva is excreted in cases of severe headaches, and I rest after each vomiting process. I feel calm in the body, thank God.
- I visited many doctors, including doctors - internal nerves, ear, nose and throat, heart, eyes, bones, neurosurgery, internal medicine, psychiatry, rheumatism, general surgery,
I took many medications and the diagnosis was as follows:
Complicated migraine (because the symptoms are atypical), unusual.
Fifth nerve pain.
Sinus sensitivity.
Chronic muscle tension in the neck and face of unknown cause. - Temporomandibular joint disorder.
In 2015, I went to a dentist, and he discovered that I had an atrophied wisdom tooth under the gum and pressing on the nerve (left side). Staying up or getting up early, because the headache increases, I felt some change.
I moved between clinics to find the cause of this headache, but to no avail. Even painkillers and hypnotics do not work during pain attacks.
- I have to sleep semi-sitting, because the headache and dizziness increase when my head goes down.
- Some things that help relieve pain somewhat.
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I relax when I put a hot water bag on the face and neck.
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When drinking hot liquids, when they pass through the throat, I feel relief, so more of them.
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I relax when I eat salty food.
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When I vomit, I feel relaxed and the body calms down .
- Pain attacks increase when
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Exposure to cold, whether the face or even touching something cold with my hand, especially the left hand. I feel direct signs of pain in the left eye with tingling in the head.
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When replacing muscle effort, even if it is simple.
Work that requires focus.
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Bathing .
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Feeling hungry from the stimuli of pain. I feel strong pain signals coming from the stomach to the head. Severe tingling in the head (from a medical point of view, the cause is unknown).
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Sometimes, if I eat after being very hungry, I feel a sore throat and find it difficult to swallow the food, because the process of eating and swallowing causes pain and irritates the stomach.
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During severe bouts of pain, I feel agitation inside the body, as if a turbulent sea is inside me. I do not know the reason for this feeling. I feel that I am going to die.
But after every vomiting (vomiting) I feel a kind of relief immediately. Vomiting may reach more than 4 times a day in cases of severe pain. -
In the year 2018 I moved to dental clinics, because I had pain and sensitivity in the teeth with chronic periodontal pockets on the left side, and swelling in the cheek, there was no response to the treatments, the periodontal pockets were returning and the tooth sensitivity was chronic,
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In 2019, I visited a number of oral and maxillofacial surgeons, and the diagnosis was different:
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Chronic muscle tightening in the face and neck (of unknown cause).
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Temporomandibular joint disorder.
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Eagle syndrome.
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Jaw mismatch (bad occlusion).
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Erosion in the jaw joint.
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Some of them advised me to visit a psychiatrist.
Many treatments have been used to treat the problem of the jaws, including:
- 7 occlusal splints, including the lower jaw and the upper jaw, and one that includes the jaws.
Botox injections into facial muscles, to treat neuralgia in the face.
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Physiotherapy sessions .
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In 2020, I washed the jaw joint under local anesthesia (left side).
Less than a month later, and during the bouts of pain, I took an analgesic, and it was the first time that I felt that there was something touching the pain and calming it down. I felt a response to the analgesic, and the symptoms relieved me well. They did not disappear completely, but there was a clear improvement in the symptoms.
And since 2020 to today, I take painkillers almost daily.
Mobic 7,5mg-
DImra -
coltramyl
co- codamol 8mg
Gabapentin 200mg
Topamax 50 mg
Neurorubine Forte
Vitamins B1, B6 , B12
Paracod
Pentapragle 20mg
Dexamiltion 4mg
Arityplaline 25mg
Becogye -s-
Neproten 25mg
Tri - B
Mascadol Tab
Amytril 25mg
Baclofen 10mg
Indometacin 50mg
Lamactil 50mg
Divido cop 75mg
Amitiriptaline 25mg
Nootropyl
Stugeran 25mg
Librax 5mg
Tegretol 400mg
Tophranil 25mg
Lyrica 75mg
Coltranyl Injection
Doliprane pro 325mg
- i started taking medication that requires no prescription
-saridon 50mg
-reality extra Tab + GEL
-Naproxen 500mg.
- At the beginning of the year 2022, I visited a maxillofacial surgeon, and he noticed during a panorama image that extended in the auricle, and confirmed during palpation of the tonsil fossa that I had Eagle syndrome, and that the length of the auricle might be compressing some nerves and vessels.
He coordinated with an ear, nose and throat surgeon to perform an operation to shorten the styloid,
The operation was on 5-2022
The surgery was oral, the doctor removed the tonsils, then shortened the bone on the side
left,
The bone was about 4 cm long, about 2 cm was removed, and the bone was pressing on the auditory nerve and the ear nipple from the inside.
The operation was only on the left side, because the pain was severe on the left side.
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There is pain on the right side, but not the same as the left side, hearing impairment with strong buzzing in the ear (there is a hole in the right eardrum), swelling in the cheek, sometimes a pulsating headache behind the head and on the side of the right eye,
Sudden weakness of vision (both eyes) occurred after using the mouth splints. I noticed blurry vision. It increases when bending down. The blurriness increases a lot, but when sitting, it gradually decreases. Vision improves, but the blurry does not disappear (medically, there is no defect in the eye, thank God). -
On the day of the operation, I was discharged from the hospital on the first day. Immediately after the operation, I was very tired, because the feeling of hunger and cold intensified the pain, and the operating room was cold.
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I was asked to drink more fluids, and the more I drank, the pain in my face and eyes increased. The more the pain subsided, as soon as I drank the juice, the pain increased.
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The first thing I noticed after waking up from the surgery was that the heart rate calmed down a lot, and I no longer felt any tension in the heart. There was great calm in the chest. I was breathing with great relief, thank God.
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I felt strange relief despite the headache and eye pain,
The first days of the surgery were tiring. I slept semi-sitting and the pain in my throat was severe. I had more episodes of sleep apnea, but thank God, after a few days, when I took painkillers, I got relief.
The heartbeat is almost stable, but sometimes I feel a burning sensation in the heart.
A week after the operation, I noticed a change in sensation on the left side (I have a lack of sensation on the left side, in the face and neck from the front and back) I noticed, I felt that the sensation began to return inside the ear,
- After exactly two months, I was seeing a clear change in my condition, I felt that the headache had subsided and the pain signs in my head had also decreased.
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I no longer took painkillers, and I was afraid and waiting for headache attacks. I was making an effort and was exposed to cold current. I did many things that I used to get tired of, but I got a drastic improvement. Natural and I was very happy with the development that took place.
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I used to always cover my head with a hat, it kept me day and night, and I couldn’t do without it because I felt a headache immediately when I took it off, but I managed to live without it for hours.
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Hunger used to be one of the triggers of pain, but this has changed a lot, and I can bear hunger for hours and not get tired if I eat after severe hunger, thank God.
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The muscle tension relieved me, I felt a relief in my neck, I had used many treatments, creams, physical therapy sessions and medicines, but the result is very, very different after the surgery, thank God.
- There was a clear and radical change in my condition.
- After 3 months, I noticed a change in my condition, I was living normally, and there was nothing strange that I did. I noticed that I had numbness in half of my face and throat, increasing day by day, on the left side.
Severe dryness in the throat where the operation was performed. I feel something in the throat.
The pain began to return gradually (eye and neck pain).
- The heartbeat is also not what it used to be, and I feel that it has returned by 30%, with pain in the heart and heartburn.
(I noticed that the heart beats as soon as I lie on the bed and when I sit it disappears, and when I wrap the neck in certain positions, it decreases or disappears and returns) - Tingling in the throat when talking or turning to the left side, I feel that the bone itself is touching my throat from the inside.
symptoms and bouts of pain began to return,
Even with the return of symptoms, I feel an improvement in my condition and a continuous change compared to my condition before treatments and operations, an improvement of 70%, thank God.
I was almost bedridden and could not exert muscular or even mental effort, but now I have improved a lot, so I want to perform another surgery to remove the bone from the base The skull because I feel that there is still pressure on the nerves and veins.
At present, the numbness in the face has subsided and sometimes increases when I exert effort, and I feel pain under the left eye that resembles a stabbing knife, extending to the jaw joint, and the pain extends to the top of the head, from the side of the eye to the middle of the head, but it is less intense than before.
- Heartbeat There is a disturbance of 30%, and it increases when sleeping and neck movement in a certain way.
Pain under the ear, jaw and in the neck from the front and back, and weak sensation around the joint of the jaw, ear and neck from behind.
I used to feel a great urge to vomit (vomiting) during pain attacks, now this symptom has disappeared since the operation, a slight feeling sometimes during pain attacks, thank God.
Current symptoms:
- Tingling, numbness, and burning in the left side of the face, the base of the tongue, and the neck, and sometimes sudden tingling inside the head and in the eye.
- sometimes headache with dizziness,
- Spasm under the tongue and jaw muscles.
Pain in the back of the neck when sleeping, and sometimes I can’t find a comfortable sleeping position. I sleep semi-sitting with a blanket supporting the neck, because I feel relaxed and the headaches lessen, and the heartbeat improves.
Thickness of saliva.
Muscle tension in the neck. - I do not know if the doctor smoothed the bone after shortening it or not, because I feel a tingling in the throat when speaking and turning.
The operation was on 5-5-2022.
I had the operation for about nine months.
As for the medicines mentioned by the supervisor, I used them in the past, but the side effects were tiring and I could not continue taking them. Gabapentin caused involuntary spasms during sleep. The dose was 800mg.
- Amitriptyline I tried taking it in different doses 10mg, 25mg, when I was following up with maxillofacial surgery doctors, but it caused me side effects that I could not continue, it caused me to feel sleepy all day, and I could no longer concentrate. His symptoms, even though he took it a lot and it didn’t cause them.
- Lyrica I also took it, but for a very short time, because of its symptoms, it caused me double vision and imbalance, so I could not continue.
And this is what annoyed the doctors when I told them that I could not take the treatment because of its side effects because I had tried a lot, so that one of the doctors when I showed him my case and attached to him the list of medicines that I took, he said to me, all the medicines known among us as neurologists you have taken, I have no choice for you but Amitriptyline while staying away from anything that causes pain.
As for the headache, it is present, but not on a daily basis, when pain attacks when exerting exertion or exposure to cold, as well as dizziness, tingling, numbness, irregular heartbeat, and shortness of breath.
As for the Plavix treatment, I did not take it before, but as for blood thinners, I took some kind of it in the past, but before all the surgeries.
As for the right side, its length is shorter than the right side. I do not know how long it is. There is pain, but it is not the same as on the left side. The left side is more painful.
There is a hole in the right eardrum, and I always hear a wheezing and whistling sound with hearing impairment, and sometimes a pulsating headache behind the head and the side of the eye with blurry vision.
Thanks for your responses.
