Is Trigeminal Neuralgia TMS / Mindbody Pain?

In the world of chronic pain, many say that those with Trigeminal Neuralgia have it the worst. I'm not here to debate how severe it can be. I'm sure it is horrific. My goal in this video is to share my experience with chronic pain, mindbody disorders, neural circuit pain and apply it to what I know about this condition labeled as Trigeminal Neuralgia.

This is my take. I'm not a doctor, but I believe I understand pain very well and can explain why there are not tons of success stories in this Trigeminal Neuralgia world as it relates to applying a mindbody / TMS approach.

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[rhondagallone]

sending prayers to all who suffer from this xo

[tatianacupello]

Mine is labeled as glossopharyngeal neuralgia, a TN sibling. Also known as the suicidal disease. It is a heavy label and the fact that there is very few success story in TMS community scares me sometimes. I am trying to forget this label. Mine started after surgery and I know the body heals but the perceived danger remains. I have learned that the brain interprets facial body part as very important and that is why the sensation can be overwhelming, especially if it is non stop. Thanks God we have your videos to support us and make this journey lighter.

[traceymoore]

I only found this video a week ago and since then I've been bombarding myself with your videos, I was in total dispare and in so much pain and already I'm so much better . I left the TN groups, they are so unhelpful, every word they use is negative,
I sent off for Dr Sarnos book and have just started it this morning
I believe I can do this, with the help of you and your channel xx

[mindsetwithmarian]

You are right.. I used to be a tn patient.. i successfully ignored it years ago, I literally decided I wanted to live my life. And believe me I have been having extreme pain and often thought I’d rather die than that pain. I had been suffering from very early age… 15.. Spirituality has helped me. Believing is seeing. Not the other way around. People who have limiting subconscious beliefs around what causes the pain, a good way is change your beliefs with night time targeted affirmations (playing at night very low volume while sleeping so they can get into the subconscious mind)

[othervideos]

On page 88 of the Mindbody Prescription, John Sarno stated the following: "A number of years ago I had an episode of dental nerve pain that could not be explained. After suffering it for a few months, I was looking at anatomical drawings of the nervous system with patients one day when I came upon a particularly vivid depiction of the nerve supply to the teeth, branches of the fifth nerve, and immediately wondered if the dental pain might be TMS of the trigeminal nerve. I concluded that it was - and the pain was gone in less than forty-eight hours. This is an example of the therapeutic power of awareness as will be described in Part III of this book." I know Sarno did not suffer from full-blown TN, but he did experience some trigeminal nerve pain issues related to his teeth and solved them himself using his own approach. I figured it would be useful here to point that out.

[rjeareby]

Mine came on after Botox for migraines. I believe a nerve was damaged then but not now! I also was hit in the head with a window & had a huge structural issue that wasn’t fixed until 2 years later. It was a very, very dark time in my life. I did a tapping recently that was letting go of the diagnosis. You are right as society makes us believe it’s a death sentence! Suicide disease! I belong to no more TN groups! They are too depressing! But letting go of this diagnosis is a piece of my puzzle that was never dealt with. My ATN didn’t go away after my huge C1/C2 craniotomy surgery but it has lessened up at times. It went full blast with the death of my dogs, both my parents, adult children issues, & chronic health issues with my dog now. I so know it’s TMS even having 4 levels of fusion in my neck & little motion. Everything heals! Doubt is deadly! We must take our power back and say NO to all this other BS! Time, repetition, belief, & letting go of all the fear and doubt will get me to where I need to be again! Thanks Dan!!! I will be pain free! Little by little I’m making progress and learning a lot about myself!

[lindaelarde]

I saw a video of Dr Schubiner doing a session with a young woman who has this condition. She was having pain and he worked with her and her pain dissipated in the session. She was overwhelmed with emotion. He prepared her that more work would need to be done and that the pain would return. But she now saw that she could actually calm down the reactivity and get relief.. it was powerful to watch.

[MrEndoscope]

Dan I had severe boughts of this type of pain for years off and and on it only comes during stressful times…when it does I tell my brain to stop this it’s not helping me and it vanishes completely…I wish this approach would work with rest of my issues ..

[sparkely]

Just got this diagnosis 😢 crying my face off! My tn is wild, I pull teeth out because the pain is so bad. I’m 35 I’m out of teeth just about 😭😭😭😭😭

I appreciate this video Dan thank you so much I will watch over and over and over and over!!! Xo

[diannej]

This is so great, thank you Dan. I heard you briefly mention TN in a more recent video and it gave me an aha moment. I realised my dear friend’s husband had been diagnosed with this and has undergone 2 operations. She said they haven’t been a success. So I looked for more in-depth discussion about it and this video came up. I have reached out to her just now to see if she would be open to a different approach and way of seeing it. She simply said ‘maybe’. I think that’s all I can do for now. But if she would like to know more, I’ll let her know about this video and your content.
Thank you for all you do for this community, Dan.
Kind regards from Dianne in Melbourne 💐

[linda.bee.]

I have no doubt that TN is caused by the brain. I have seen improvement in mine since I started doing DNRS. It's not gone yet but it's definitely gotten way better. Still working on the cold / wind exposure and other triggers that set it off. But the general pain I get is down. I think you are spot on with the coming and going of symptoms, as that is a great indicator to me that it's brain related.

I have chronic pain in so many parts of my body that the only logical explanation to me is that it's caused by the brain. It just doesn't make sense that I would be truly physically damaged in so many parts of my body (face, knees, shoulders, wrists, tendons, back etc.). The simplest explanation is that it's caused by the brain.

[BernadetteDevlin-lw]

I believe every word this man speaks about

[ladelostruquillos]

Definitely it is TMS, i had it, it started after a discussion with my ex boss, very significative because never had it before. I was very frustrated with that woman and i wanted to tell her many ugly things, but i never expressed what i felt to her, and the real thing is that i hated her so much. She still treats her employees like robots and tramples them because the only thing she matters is 💸. the worst person i ever met.

[userillusion]

Nicole Sachs had a fantastic TN success story in her book ‘The meaning of truth’

[darsluck]

I feel my own difference when I use mind control. I have been using the mind control Siri I have been using the mind control theory for two years now and I see improvements but mostly I see improvements because I left Florida, the tropics where the Heat and the sun were killing me

[LS-fpgv]

The pain is maddening, colours your view on everyday life. A good cry makes it worse.

[dinasvoice]

Vielen Dank. Ich werde auf jeden Fall ein Video mit dir machen - wenn ich es geschafft habe 🙌

[darsluck]

I've been talking to my brain very, very hard and consistently... please make something work. I can take this much longer. It is torture!!!

[worldwithouttime]

I was cured by Sarno 30 years ago and I've been a Mind Body guy ever since. So I don't take issue with your conclusion, but as a scientist, I can tell you the main reason it is difficult to get structuralists or anyone else to accept a 'TMS' diagnosis--it is the lack of scientific study and explanation of tms-aos-psychogenic disorders. I pushed back against Sarno even 30 yrs ago, and he had no response back then (fortunately, I was able to accept that my pain was psychogenic). Some progress has been made by folks like Schubiner etc and related concepts like centralized sensitization, but it is not enough IMO. Until we get a better understanding of how 'TMS' works in the context of specific conditions (why the trigeminal, for example?) it will be a huge struggle to get many people to accept a psychogenic explanation.

[gottiesgorrillas]

..Just came across this video. Are there other neurologic symptoms (like dystonia) that seem to be "owned" by neurologists, that are really explained by MBS? Very frustrating. Thanks for the videos; I just joined the groups.