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Yea, not enough long term studies. I read it hasn’t been so successful for sciatica.
Gabapentin helps sciatica for me. I can’t take it too often because it affects my short term memory and can’t focus good. I’ll get together some natural remedies that help me. If you don’t have a pain management doctor I highly recommend one. Not for the RX, unless that’s something you need. Lidocaine injections & patches help me a lot. Epidural helps, don’t get cortisone more than 4 times a year.
Family member has trigeminal neuralgia. They hit toxic on carbamazepine and have to scale back, leaving them in excruciating pain. I believe the neurologist wants to try this new Rx. I have researched supplements and other therapies, etc. but as they say you can lead a horse to water but can’t make them drink. Pharma has provided the only relief they’ve known and they are scared to take natural things due to potential interactions with the other Rxs. 🤦♀️ Hard to watch, so I support by encouragement and research and prayer. Thank you, moody, for sharing what has worked in your case.
I haven’t heard of this, I thought regular nerve pain was bad. I can’t imagine going through this pain in your face. I’ll try to search things like: what causes it, natural remedies (herbs & essential oils), how does diet affect it, etc. I found this link: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/18050077/
neuralgia: Neuralgia is a type of pain caused by a nerve that’s irritated or damaged. Causes include shingles and underlying medical conditions such as multiple sclerosis. Treatment will vary depending on the cause. https://www.healthline.com/health/neuralgia#causes
I searched Neuralgia because “algia” sounds like it could be similar to fibromyalgia. I was diagnosed with that about thirty years ago & over the years have been diagnosed with more chronic pain conditions. Basically Fibromyalgia is a trash can disease, they don’t know what causes x,y & x symptoms so they group the many pain symptoms under one name.
Neur– is a combining form used like a prefix that literally means “nerve.” The form is also used figuratively to mean “nerves” or “nervous system.” It is often used in medical terms, especially in anatomy.
I’ll list search engines that might be more helpful than Google and other ones that have aggressive algorithms. I haven’t used all these search engines yet, just found these recently.
I’ve been eating carnivore over a year, but haven’t seen pain improvement simply because I sabotage myself and get off of the plan. I’ve studied carnivore diet benefits over a year. Many people that truly change their diet with out cheating have experienced healing from chronic pain. I’m not pushing this on anyone. Just mentioning because it might help your friend if this is a result of diet. Mainly seed oils and plants with high oxalates cause inflammation and disease. If I was affected I’d do research on this and what possible causes this condition.
It sounds like trigeminal neuralgia is caused by nerve damage. I have Peripheral neuropathy, Gabapentin helps a lot. With both of these conditions being in nerve pain family, St John’s Wort might help your friend. When I stay on St John’s wort regularly my nerve pain is non existent. The problem with this herb is it interacts with about 300 prescriptions. I got back on estrogen last year and stopped for several months. I always stop herbs if I have a surgery scheduled or anything that requires medication. Basically St John’s wort is an anti viral. If it stops my nerve pain and an itching condition that’s like hives (dermographism), it’s possible I’ve got some type of virus or some food is causing these two conditions.
This isn’t easy to research because they are suppressing information on natural healing and promoting big pharma on most search engines. I usually find helpful information on YouTube. Even though it’s owned by google it doesn’t seem to suppress natural medicine. Just consider the source, is it a house wife dabbing in herbs or a certified herbalist or aromatherapist?
Search trigeminal neuralgia shingles I searched trigeminal neuralgia hashtag on instagram and found a couple post talking about shingles virus can cause this and other conditions. It’s mentioned on several posts shingles can be dormant in your body which causes multiple chronic conditions. I haven’t researched and won’t link post that don’t have a source. I do firmly believe chronic pain is caused by environmental and food toxins.
If this were me I’d start out by going to a pain management doctor (if not already). Ask about alternative treatments that could go along with medication.
If I find anything I’ll reply here. Might be end of week before I can research. I’m praying your friend gets much needed pain relief.
Search Engines (I saw these posted on facebook and haven’t checked all of them out. I found the first link posted on one of these sites.
www.refseek.com - Academic Resource Search. More than a billion sources: encyclopedia, monographies, magazines.
www.worldcat.org - a search for the contents of 20 thousand worldwide libraries. Find out where lies the nearest rare book you need.
https://link.springer.com - access to more than 10 million scientific documents: books, articles, research protocols.
www.bioline.org.br is a library of scientific bioscience journals published in developing countries. http://repec.org - volunteers from 102 countries have collected almost 4 million publications on economics and related science.
www.science.gov is an American state search engine on 2200+ scientific sites. More than 200 million articles are indexed.
www.base-search.net is one of the most powerful researches on academic studies texts. More than 100 million scientific documents. 70% of them are free!
Oh my goodness, thank you! I’ve run into the idea that the herpes simplex virus may be in the nerve. St. John’s Wort - are you able to take that with your gabapentin? I’ll have to look up interactions. It’s my mother, and I so would love her to try something more natural if she can get a reprieve and get off the other meds, but I do understand it has to be done safely. I also think she should be tested for vitamin levels, I suspect that is a factor too. Think she was diagnosed with fibromyalgia a decade or so ago, too, and has had migraines forever. It’s surely related and progressing, in my mind. God bless you, Fren, and good luck with your issues, too.