Fire!

My face is on fire.

Started yesterday.  Nerve pain across my cheek and down under my chin into my lower teeth.

I made an appointment for the bad molar upper left to be hopefully pulled.  It's been bothering me actually since it was filled but I'd hoped it would get better.  I can't chew on it.  And yesterday suddenly the pain got a million times worse.

It first was in my cheek above that tooth but then has spread to bizarre extremes, and I hope I didn't suddenly develop trialgia neuralgia--inflammation of the facial nerves that is known to cause about the worst pain known.

It is usually caused by demilinization of the nerve, I read, generally due to a blood vessel's too close proximity to that nerve at some point.  But can be caused by other things too, including trauma or compression of the nerve somewhere or disease or tumor.

I reasoned it would be too much coincidence that I was having trouble with the tooth for several weeks, to not be related.  I thought the only other change I've had is lately I've been walking a lot after my car broke down.  But I also have tmj in my jaw on that side and probably have arthritis in it also.  My jaw sometimes locks on the other side.  I don't know how close the jaw joint itself is to the tangled nerve hub near that same point.  I suppose a lot of actual position may differ person to person.

I had terrible facial nerve problems after the beating that ruptured a neck disc backwards into my spinal cord, compressing it by half.  It had also ruptured to the left compressing nerves that fed muscles on the left side of my neck, which became rock hard.

They tightened over the nerves on my face causing me horrible pain, eye and lip twitiching, on one side, and would pull down one side of my nose.  The pain then extended to one side of the inside of my mouth, generally the roof of my mouth and sometimes one side of my tongue.

When I finally got that neck disc sucked out of my spinal cord, most of those issues vanished instantly, but not all and I still have dealt with the nerve telling my face muscle to pull down on one of my nose and chronic periodic cheek and mouth pain.  These symptoms generally occur if I use my left arm too much or tilt my head back when working.

Let's hope its the tooth.   The tooth in question had an internal resorption cavity that extended into one root and he said it really needed a root canal, to kill that nerve. 

UpDate:  Gone, baby, gone, it was the tooth and so long, bye bye to that horrible awful pain!   Tooth has been pulled.