u/WillowV15

My mom was diagnosed with TN. She’s been dealing with pain since February of this year. Thought it was tooth pain so they did root canal. It wasn’t. Finally I took her to a clinic for uninsured people and the neurosurgeon did the scan and came back that she had TN. She’s been on carbamazepine, it worked great for the first 2 weeks but now the pains are back and they are worse. Trying to take her back again Monday to see if the doctor can see her but since it’s a free clinic is really a 50/50 chance they can see her.

Last time she went in the neurosurgeon told her she was most likely going to need surgery since the medicine wasn’t working.

Her whole life has been flipped upside down. She’s severely depressed. She can’t eat, she can’t talk, she can’t enjoy life. Yesterday she was got into a car accident and I think it had to do with her severe malnutrition due to the pain and her being in pain. She broke her nose, so that added to her nerve pain is just defeating.

I’m trying to motivate her as much as I can. I can’t imagine what she must be going through. I feel defeated and hopeless. I don’t know how to get her to keep fighting. I try to cook and do things with her and for her but I know that nothing can take the pain away right now.

Is there anything that helped you guys out even for a second??? Anything that can bring light back into her day. Any home remedies that relieved the pain for a couple of seconds?? Is there anything I can do???

My baby boy is 9 months, almost 10 months and his sleep has gone completely out the window. It’s incredibly hard to put him down to sleep, it’s taking 30 min to an hour when it used to take maybe 3 min. His naps are bad but even after a little he manages to go to bed, his bedtime is just awful. Before this I didn’t even need to rock him he would just fall asleep, now I’m rocking but as soon as I put him down he screams. He never used to do that before. He stops as soon as he gets picked up and will fall asleep on me but if I put him in his bed he will wake up and scream. Once he’s down for the night he sleeps through the night. The issue is getting him down to sleep.

Nothing had change. His routine is the same. Even when he is teething he has never acted like this. He just finished teething from his two top teeth and even then it was a lot easier to get him to sleep. Is this normal????