Saturday, February 27, 2010

Injury Profile

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Here's mine

Male

40 years old

Injury: Lingual nerve injury due to injection injury July 2009

Symptoms: Numbness, burning, tingling, stinging, over sensitive, achy, strange tastes that include sour and metallic.

Treatment/Meds. tried: Gabapentin, Lyrica, Topamax, soft laser, acupuncture, pepper candies, beer, wine., A load of supplements that you can read about in the treatment thread.

Best treatment or coping strategies: Get lots of sleep, makes sure you getting proper nutrition even when food tastes like broken glass. exercise. Vitamins. I think soft laser helped too.

How I am today: No more numbness, mild but constant burn that can ramp up from time to time. Still positive that I can make a good recovery.

Lingual Nerve Injury Forum

Where to start.
I was injured about 7 months ago. I am so much better than I was and I've learned a lot about how to cope with this injury and have received a lot of help in the healing process from others who have gone through this injury prior to myself.

My other blog is a little on the personal side. It has been therapeutic for me to record and share my feelings and progress as I moved through the stages of recovery. If you have followed it you can see the highs and lows that I've experienced from the start.

Over the last couple of months I have been asked to start my own site. I like the free flowing nature of the the blog format. You may remain anonymous or you may identify yourself. You can post if you wish or lurk, either is fine for this site as it hopefully will become a data base for the newly injured to find help.

Make as many entries as you wish come back as often as you need to but I must remind you that part of the healing process will require to to eventually move on. So if I give you a gentle nudge to move on it's only because I care.

I have several threads in mind but feel free to add on.