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@Mr. Cartman for your reply, it makes me feel more at ease....Yes I have some facial nerve pain that comes and goes (Thankfully!! )and I believe it stems from my jaw joints. Sometimes changing position in my neck spikes my T..well alot actually. so I do believe there is
some neck involvement (SCM) with my T. I had mild whiplash from bike accident last summer which seem to worsen my tmj and perhaps brought about TN symptoms, a chiro agreed with me.... also with nerve pain onset, I had sensitive hearing which I now know to be H...however it did go away within a few days only to return with full on T in December. I say full on T as I have had very mild T for as long as I can remember and thought it was normal growing up..but I mean super mild..quiet room at night type...but it NEVER bothered me..
anyways I also had my right ear syringed last summer after water became trapped for 3 days from swimming and impacted wax.. .....and I took clonazepam for 3 months and then stopped c/t for a week in early december..though I did not feel any effects from that and I still dont feel dependent...so I have some possible reasons for my now T and H and I am just trying to figure them out so I know how to treat them. The plan is to treat my jaw and hopefully see some improvement.
This morning I woke to an inflammed right jaw joint and my T is louder...however I did also eat a crapload of junk food/ sodium last night too
anyway. .what I really want is for my H to go away..
it does also seem worse when my T spikes.
Thanks for your reply
I do believe that the mild whiplash could be the culprit of T and H, as that was exactly what happened to me as well.
Also theres is a guy in here (chronicburn) he also suspects that his T could have been set off by a motor cycle accident.
Ive tried to learn some things about hyperacusis, but it seems like there is a lot of vague information.
However, I did come across some information about hyperacusis that points out a direct connection between stapedius and its motoric function being one cause, which I have suspected for some time:
Paralysis of the stapedius, such as in injury to the facial nerve (CN VII) allows wider oscillation of the stapes, resulting in heightened reaction of the auditory ossicles to sound vibration. This condition, known as hyperacusis, causes normal sounds to be perceived as very loud.
In many cases I believe it could be entirly psychological related though, but at least it seems like there is another connection as well.
Yeah, I think that the SCM alone is capable of producing some nasty stuff. I also read that it is capable of affecting the muscles of mastication as well.
What I have noticed is that all the muscles on the the left side of my neck/shoulder area is less flexible and probably a bit shorter than on the right, and the clavicular head of my SCM is just not good compared to the right one.
Also, this is the muscle that got a serious over-stretch together with the sternal head of my SCM when all this happened. Its probably something that has been building up for a long time and the sudden neck movement brought it to a boiling point.
It seems like I too have some inflammation going on in the left jaw area as well.. Or at least it feels like it.
I have found that anti-inflammatoric gel actually works if I put it on my jaw joint area, and a bit below.
Also, I use it on my neck.. That seems to work as well
It could be that all this is actually caused by our neck.. Im reading and testing out a lot of stuff, and I will let you know if something works
What I have found to work though, is to gently stretch a few of the muscles in the neck/shoulder area left side, as they seem to be a bit shortened in my case, but Im very causious when I do this.
Those are: SCM, levator scapulae, trapezius, scalene and pectoralis, and probably a few more
But it came back fine, and they said that there was nothing wrong with my hair cells.
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