So, there am I happily living my life, unaware that my current girlfriend will dropkick me to the curb in a mere four days.
Anyways, there I am (the woman thing isn’t relevent to this, I just like to bitch) when I feel this weird pain in either my right eye or the very tip of my right cheekbone.
“Well, that’s strange”, I think, “Maybe it’ll go away when I wear my glasses for a couple days. I do get headaches from that, even though this doesn’t seem quite right for that.” My inner monologues are short and to the point, as you may have noticed.
The pain comes and goes, but I couldn’t find a pattern. One thing I did notice was that one little spot seems to feel hot while the pain is happening. Some sympathetic pain or something.
Then this morning I’m doing some relatively heavy lifting when I realize that whenever I am lifting anything relatively heavy with my right arm, the pain comes back!
I know everything in our body is interconnected and all that, but man, that’s weird.
I wouldn’t describe it as a shooting pain. It’s really more of a “I have a needle jammed into my cheekbone and occasionally I do something to make it shift around” pain.
Anyone have any suggestions? Am I dying? Should I put all my money into heroin and hookers?
Well, I’ve had an appointment for next Monday for a couple weeks now for something totally unrelated.
However, it’s gotten worse over the last couple days. Now I don’t need to lift anything that heavy, and if I move EITHER arm into certain positions it happens.
This blows. Besides the hookers and heroin, any ideas to help with this?
The liberal application of copious amounts of alcohol to your ailimentary canal?
Sorry, don’t mean to make jokes about your agony and possible death. The fact that it’s getting worse IS peculiar indeed. Maybe you should call your doctor and see abotu having the appointment advanced. If it sounds bad to him, he might make an emergency opening for you.
This sounds very much unlike Bell’s Palsy. Very unlike.
Bell’s palsy doesn’t cause pain and is makes itself known by causing paralysis of the facial muscles (usually on one side). The only thing about Bell’s palsy that is even remotely connected to discomfort (aside from the psychological stress which can be considerable) is the fact that sounds may be painfully loud on the affected side.
And, if you had a slip of the tongue, and really meant to say that this could be trigeminal neuralgia (a disorder of the 5th, not 7th, cranial nerve), it doesn’t sound like that either.