Welcome to the Board (gosh, I haven't typed those words in a long time!)
Sounds like you may have done a lot of reading around the forum in the past couple of years. Listen, I know it can feel impossible thinking about "forever" in terms of pain like this. Here's my suggestion: Don't. Instead, do all you can to focus on the present - and what is good in the present - when that overwhelming feeling comes. Nothing but this very moment is guaranteed in life. So you don't need to be afraid of one version of how things may turn out, because, who knows what will really happen? 6 years ago, I felt the same way you do. Scared and it all seemed impossible. But you'll see. As long as you keep on sticking it out, you'll keep growing. Life will keep happening. Other dreams and new dreams will still come true. You can and you will get through this, one day at a time. I promise.

Pim gave you some good advice about the NerveFix (Hi, Pim! Good to see you again!) I also want to suggest, if you haven't done a search of the forum yet, to do so for homeopathic remedies. I just lost my job today and can't afford health insurance, so you and me, hon, are both on this no-medication adventure together (I just get to start out by going through a few weeks of withdrawal, though. Yay!) I can tell you already, though, that everything you can do to relax your body will pay in dividends. So take really good care of the muscles in your shoulders, the back of your head, your neck and your jaw; check out the homeopathic, nonprescription remedies here on the Board; and post again with your progress. I'll let you know how it goes for me, too.

Sending you big hugs and wishes for better days ahead,
KarenR

I am now keen on case for nervefix and am going to order online to see if they help. I actually went and got hypnotherapy a few weeks ago too, waste of money, made no difference.
It is so good to talk to someone who understands the pain of this. I do sometimes wish i could just allow my husband feel what it's like for few hours so he can understand.
The professor also told me last feb that he has a team working on a type of muscle graft to help me but he is not sure ehwn it would be ready. anyone heard of this???

My email address is tinaspence751@gmail.com if anyone would like to make direct contact x

Let us know if the NerveFix helps you. It is homeopathic, which I will admit I don't know what that means. I've always said that if I was told snorting dried up cat sh** would fix my pain, I'd be fighting the dogs for the litter box crunchies!!!

I am sorry for your job loss and all that comes with it, regardless of why it happened. Life can sure throw you a curve ball when you least need it.

will do. sorry for the extra stress that it brings to you. Seems like when it rains it pours.

I am glad to see so many people to talk to.
My professor has not tried me on ANYTHING, nothing. He keeps telling me that he is going to send me to a pain clinic but it hasnt happened, so i have been just having to bear it

I dont want to upset prof cos he is leading my legal medical reports as i wanna persue this legally. He is giving me super reports and is 100% behind me on my legal battle.

This injury has cost me 1000's and i actually dont think any amount of money will ever compensate. Has anyone recieved compensation here???

I am so lucky to have such supportive family who allow me rant and cry when it gets too much for me to bear

x

However, I found out that I can make a new complaint because according to the law, if the medical operation is minor but causes a serious and permanent injury, the person can get compensation despite of being just part of the statistics.

I lose $1000 a year for the medication and I spent about $3000 to get treatment after the injury. Also, I lost $15 000 because I could not work at all / full-time after the operation. I try to get my money back, but many people get just their medication paid by the insurance. I am a terminator by nature, so I am willing to fight with the insurance system.

I think I have something to offer you and anyone who suffers burning pain in their tongue from a lingual nerve injury. Get some very hot (the hottest you can find) chili (cayenne) peppers, preferably ground. Rub this into your tongue where the burning is... it will burn for 10 - 20 minutes or so. Don't worry... it doesn't do any damage to your tongue BUT the capsaicin in the pepper blocks "substance P" which has an analgesic effect on the pain. This is about the only thing I've found to give me some immediate relief. Initially, do this 4 - 6 times a day for a few weeks, then cut down to only when needed. It helps but no, it isn't a cure. I have suffered with a dysesthesia (burning pain, stiffness, raw feelings, etc.) for over 38 months due to an injection. I'm about to try using a laser on my lingual nerve. I've had about 60 - 70% improvement over the last three years, but it seems to have hit a plateau. I've got to keep trying to regenerate my nerve. Surgery isn't an option in injectional injuries.

Bob, wud u believe my mom had said it to me about rubbing theses peppers on my tongue, she is very into herbal medicine, yet I brushed her off, I will def try this, thanks.

I think our medical system works differently, I am now suing the dentist that did this to me, not only for costs, such as the cost of operation etc but for compensation for the life long injury, I have been told that this is a long battle, and proving medical negligence is huge, but I was never told of any possible things that could go wrong and I never signed a consent form to have the tooth taken out, so in my case my solicitor is fighting on them points, also on the obligation on the dentist's behalf to provide me with proper aftercare, as he told me to just go home when I went back to see him, yet I drove myself into emergency room and was admitted into hospital for 9 days with serious infection too.

Tina

This is my first post.I was struck by the discussion of cayenne pepper. I have a friend who is a doctor and I think does some work on pain relief - she mentioned about cayenne pepper coming out as possible pain relief for nerve damage but I didn't take it seriously - I am now tempted as the two medications I have tried don't seem to have helped as the side effects are also difficult to deal with.

Extremely hot cayenne pepper is helpful, no doubt about it. The hotter it is the more effective it becomes. Rub it on the tongue where it burns. The pepper will also burn but that wears off after a while and then you have some relief. I did this 4 - 5 times a day initially, now I do this only once or twice a week. I highly recommend you try homeopathy as well. This too seems to be helping me.

Bob