Hello,
I've been treated a young man, early 30's, who has had a surgery on his jaw for sleep apnea. His surgeon was the doctor who developed this type of surgery for severe apnea and as far as he knows, he's the ONLY one, in the thousands of people who've had this done, who is NOT healing. They've tried everything and tested everything and can't explain why.
For the past two years he has had severe numbness, burning, electrical pain in his entire upper and lower jaw all the way around his mouth. The pattern follows the trigeminal nerve pathway.
I tried several approaches before I found a global pattern from Dr. Richard Tan's method that has worked very well. He is also getting regular Lomi-Lomi massages
He is coming three x week and gets two massages a week.
This has been the first time in two years that he has gotten any relief and has sensation completely in his upper jaw. The lower jaw and around the mouth are still not responding.
He has been on so many pain meds and is now on a continual pain patch which he tried going without last week with very bad results.
In the last two or three weeks he has developed a sensation of coldness in his hands and feet, but they are very warm to the touch. He says he has to take a long hot shower to get warm and he 'feels' cold all the time.
His pulses are regular and strong and his tongue is purple, but not pale, with only slight hint of scallops. Very light coat but not thick.
He also gets severe nausea after every treatment. He tolerates this because the treatments help the pain so much.
I have tried every protocol for nausea and herbs with no results. In fact the more needles I try to add, the worse it gets.
For the pain, I'm trying moxa and warming herbs, but nothing touches it.
My concern is drug reactions. He sees his surgeon on the 7th of June. At this time he will go 5 days without treatment because he has to travel to see the doctor.
We will see how he does without continual acupuncture.
I have advised him to tell his doctor of the cold sensation as I'm concerned that he is developing an auto-immune response to the meds.
Does anyone see how the treatments could be causing this cold sensation?
I don't see it.
Thanks,
KC
