When for over 20 doctors over seas and in california,did MRI 2 times,it came up normal, many doctors told me is from anxiety, which is not sense. Gave me anxiety medications for more then 3 years,nothing changed.it hits me 24/7
After educating my self i found out it is most probobly the TN nerve. I went to the doctor frostrated telling him that i cant take it any more and i am sure its the TN.
He got convinced after i insisted on the symtoms and i showed him the articals that ineducated my self from.
I started taking the TN medication .i am better 70% in 3 weeks, i will have a meeting with Dr christofer in haug hospita next week.
I will discuss with him making the gama knife operation. I think it gives 100% relife in one week.
I think any facial sensations related to the TN with no doubts.
TINGLING/CRAWLING ON FOREHEAD / OVER THE FACE ARE THE EXAMPLES OF THIRD EYE OPENING IF THOSE SENSATIONS DO NOT CAUSE ANY PAIN TO YOU, ONE HAS TO IGNORE THE SAME, JUST ALLOW THEM TO PASS,
The name of cream from dr. Is Permethin. Rub from top of head to soles leave on all nite, wash off after 12 hrs. Should kill all Demodex mites and crawling feeling
Neuro lyme disease find a lime literate doctor can be fatal untreated
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****If you are currently taking any BENZODIAZEPINE medication for ANY REASON, PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE READ.////
I just want to preface this comment by clarifying I am not a doctor, and what I want to discuss is my own personal experience. Everyone is different. Each human body has its own unique physiology, and reacts to every chemical in a different way from one complete organism to the next. However, as humans we do share many (and more often that not all) the same organs, nerve clusters, nerves, bones, eyes, etc. However, we are humans because, well, we obviously are similar enough that things generally affect all of us in ways that are congruous and the make the rule, not the exception. So just keep this in mind... because while one thing may be amazing and work so well that you are convinced you solved a terrible problem and life is much better, down the road you may come to the realization that it was actually a short joyride towards a hellish and utter destruction of your life, and that for many people is something that is impossible to come back from. However, sometimes things actually DO work forever for people at the same dose, but in my experience, and the experience of many doctos who I trust with my life, and in the experience of countless friends and family, this is, was, or will not be the case.
***Here is my experience with the drug family known as benzodiazepines (I will often be referring to them as benzos for short and many people familiar with these drugs, including most doctors, do).
In the Spring of 2008 I developed what at the time I could only describe as extreme depression. After seeing my pediatric psychiatrist (who I had been seeing since I was 14 and diagnosed with ADHD) and a myriad of other doctors, I was quickly diagnosed with a myriad of mental disorders, behavioral disorders, functional disorders, anxiety disorders...I think you get the point. I quickly funneled all these "diagnosis" with my one pediatric psychiatrist who, at the time, I literally trusted with my life and the well-being of that life. Soon things were broken down to major depression disorder, general anxiety disorder, obsessive compulsive disorder, social anxiety disorder with comorbidity agoraphobia, insomnia, anxiety panic attacks, panic disorder...I think you see where this is going again. I start with ADHD, which was later (not much later) dismissed and said to have been "misdiagnosed with ADHD" for a primary General Anxiety Disorder and Major Depressive Disorder. After a being prescribe a plethora of medications over the next few months, I had just turned 21 that may and it was the beginning of the Summer, still struggling with all these apparent disorders. I was going to China that following fall, and I wanted to enjoy my summer before I went, and I was in a constant state of drug trial an error, which just exacerbated my symptoms...until I was prescribe the benzo Klonopin (clonazepam). Within an hour of my first dose (which at the time was 0.125 mg once a day at bedtime) I felt everything and anything that had even the slight bit of weight just lift off of me, as I sunk in the most pleasant way into my bed and eventually off to the best night of sleep I had ever had. That summer was amazing, and I was so happy and convinced that I had found that "magic pill" that every doctor will tell you doesn't exist (and trust me when I say this, it doesn't). I go to live in Shanghai with excitement and no fear, I come back at Christmas time and feel amazing. At that point I had escalated my dose to .25 mg of Klonopin, which is actually a very long period of time to go with such a small dose increase, as opposed to other who commonly escalate does and frequency much quicker.
Fast forward to 2011. I had come out of undergrad from a top school with a B.A. in Philosophy with a focus in Neuroscience and a second B.A. in Anthropology. I wasn't really sure what to do for work, and ended up in a Michelin Star restaurant and began my career from the bottom of the cooks to a fairly decent Chef. I studied in Califonia after two years of actually high end and brutally intense kitchen experience at the Culinary Institute of America at Greystone in Napa Valley. I then moved back to Boston where I had gone to school, and landed a job as a head Chef.
At this point I was taking 6 mg of Klonopin a day, 2mg x3 a day. By the my 25th birthday, 5 years after starting a daily regiment of Klonopin I started to develop what is know as tolerance withdrawal (interdose withdrawal, daytime reemergence and rebound withdrawal). Essentially, all of the sudden I started experiencing withdrawal symptoms from a drug I was taking without decreasing the dose, with the symptoms that had disappeared when I started the klonopin coming back 100x worse, and an INSANE amount of new symptoms that mimicked other mental disorders like schizophrenia (I did not and never have had schizophrenia) but the withdrawal symptoms, event at a baseline dose, can appear as physical or much more detrimental, as psychological symptoms. Fast forward again.
Over the new few years, I struggled with dose changes, attempts and failure of complete benzo withdrawal and cessation, which usally led to an even higher baseline dose. Each time this was attempted, it became exponentially harder and the failure probability was incredibly higher. I found myself losing my mind, terrified, when my psychiatrist out of nowhere decided that she could no longer be my doctor, she could not prescribe me anything (this was on the day I asked her to fill my klonopin script, which (trust me ) I actually NEEDED) and completely cut ties. Over the next few days, I started to go into full blown benzodiazepine withdrawal syndrome, which I would go through many times after this, before I had terrible epileptic seizure and ended up in the hospital...when I woke up my E.R. doctor asked me with outrage, why hadn't I taken my benzos?? Didn't I know that by NOT taking them at this point I could have literally died if someone hadn't found me so quickly?
I am now currently at my parents house, and I am very very fortunate to be here. I have slowly been tapering off of Klonopin, and it is a horrible and brutal process that requires months and months of concentration and basically makes you unable to function. Please go to wikipedia and type in "Benzodiazepine Withdrawal Syndrome" and just look at the myriad of withdrawal symptoms. Please click on an link you find that you don't instantly recognize the meaning of. Please understand that that wikipedia article is very accurate, but only scratches the surface of what Benzodiazepine Withdrawal will be like. And you WILL go through it, eventually. Please start reading about the drugs in this category of medications. Understand that you are taking two highly addictive drugs, and that while Ambien is not a benzo, it acts similarly in the brain, and you will have to eventually withdrawal from that as well. Please do some research, and please understand that getting scared is a good thing. However, as much as you will want to, and you will, eventually you won't be able to go back, and you will have to detox Benzodiazepines should only be prescribed as an extremely short term solution to extreme disorders and conditions, which include massive seizure disorders where other medications haven't worked, or for extreme panic attacks that become life threatening. Benzos should NEVER be prescribe to ANYONE longer than one week. Benzo withdrawal is 1,000,000 x worse (physically and psychologically) than heroin withdrawal. Ask anyone who has gone through both. I have, and trust me, Benzo withdrawal makes heroin and opioid withdrawal seem like a vacation at disney world. Another note, like me, most people who start benzos never abuse them, and this situation still occurs. Before I was prescribed klonopin, I never had any interest in drugs, legal or illicit, and trust me the non-abuse of benzos still led me into the world of pretty much any drug you can name, including high dose heroin addiction.
Please do some research, if you haven't already, and if you haven't already gotten off this horrid class of meds. Read as many horror stories as you can, because they are all true. Get really scared, because you should be. And please understand I am not trying to be cruel, I am only trying to warn you and anyone who reads this. I am currently tapering and I am at 1.5 mg a day spaced out through the day. I cannot work, I lost an amazing girlfriend, and I am too terified to leave the house, let alone my bedroom. I am 28 and living with my parents, which I am so lucky to be able to do, but it is incredibly depressing. Again, this my story, but it is the rule, not the exception, trust me. Start researching and prepare yourself. Maybe you are the one person in the world won't go through this and benzos will be a great solution rather than a knife in your side for the rest of your life, and I honestly hope you are. However, please understand these are the absolute worst drugs that unnecessarily are used by the medical community to turn people into addicts, keep them stung as long as possible, and then ALSO get to reap the rewords of both spending the insanely long time tapering people off of benzos (YOU HAVE TO DO THIS SLOWLY, AND NOT AGAINST THE WILL OF ANYONE WHO IS PHYSICALLY DEPENDENT ON BENZODIAZEPINES, EVEN AT EXTREMELY LOW DOSES OVER ANY PERIOD OF TIME LOGNER THAN A MONTH OF USE. YOU CAN EASILY DIE, AS BENZO WITHDRAWAL IS THE ONYL DRUG OTHER THAN ALCOHOL THAT CAN ACTUALLY KILL YOU (and in some cases this also includes GHB), AND THIS IS A FACT, PLEASE READ UP ABOUT IT). I am in no way accusing anyone of doing anything wrong, except the doctors who prescribe them, who get incentives from the drug companies that produce benzos. You want to put a drug dealer in prison? Put the people who prescribe and produce Benzodiazepines in prison, and hold them accountable to millions of lives ruined or lost because of these drugs. I am currently tapering off of Klonopin and look forward every second to rid myself from it once and for all. Good Luck!
Hi Ailments, your post in particular really caught my attention.