Well I am sorry to hear that and hope you get better. I can sympathise, what with the trapped nerve in my neck which has plagued me since mid-Dec and left me with my left arm essentially useless, feeling like every muscle was being simultaneously punched, my shoulder and neck aching, and I'd banged my funny bone. Getting better now though.

My wife had trigeminal neuralgia for ages (imagine the worst constant tooth-ache but in your head), nick-named the suicide disease (and it was she who'd been worried about palsy). For once she wasn't pining for the pureness of the 50s (her favourite decade) when a modern MRI scan revealed a blood vessel strangling the nerve in her brain and modern surgery was able to excise it, and now she's been cured 8 years or so.

So I hope you get over it soonest, mate.

>Diagnosed officially today with RHS. Some say it stands for Ramsay Hunt Syndrome, but I'm going with Really Hurts. Sh*t! Instead of being 1 of 4,000 with Bell's Palsy, I'm 1 of 20,000. Pretty special, huh? I'm not quite as light-hearted about this one. Full recovery is only 60% and can take years instead of weeks or months. Now I'm in the big leagues. I was wondering why the pain and symptoms I was having seemed more acute than what those whining candyass BP one's were on about! <s> Ah, well, I still have a pretty good attitude about it. Good thing, as it looks like RH and I are going to be pretty close for awhile. Not looking for sympathy - well, perhaps a little - but anyone have any stories about this new one?
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