Category Archives: Mom’s Pain Journey

• Mom’s Trigeminal Neuralgia

  Posted on January 7, 2016 by Larry Cleveland, RD, LD, LMT in Mom's Pain Journey

  If anyone is seeing this and doesn’t know what#trigeminalneuralgia is, it’s the worst pain known to man. 52% of patients with it take their lives in 2 years. Atypical Trigeminal Neuralgia is what my mom has. That means the blood vessel is not pressing on the cranial nerve that serves the face.  I moved her into […]

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• Mom’s Adventure with Trigeminal Neuritis (Neuralgia)

  Posted on February 23, 2014 by Larry Cleveland, RD, LD, LMT in Mom's Pain Journey

  2/23/14 My mother has trigeminal neuritis (neuralgia). It’s been described as the most painful condition known to man.  This is a sharp stabbing pain that comes in 10 second or more “strikes,” as she calls them.  This has been going on for about 15 years. She has tried everything and resorted to coping with it […]

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