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Sometimes i feel irritation on my skin on my side of my face..it's really sensitive to the touch. I also get a headache on one side of my head and it spreads to the side of my face. It's annoying and painful

October 7, 2014
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A MyMSTeam Member

Yeah, increased sensation sucks. I don't touch the area that is driving me bananas; I rub my arm to distract me instead :]

October 8, 2014
A MyMSTeam Member

I have gotten the sensitive skin feeling on my right side. I didn't associate it with MS. I went to my primary and he sent me to a pain Dr because he said it might be from a nerve problem. The pain Dr found that a disc was pressing on a nerve. So I had to go to rehab to do neck exercises. Now I wonder?

October 12, 2014
A MyMSTeam Member

I'm don't know your name-but I also have the same thing you do. Yes it is painful,if your is like mine it is called trigerminal neuralgia which the 5th cranial nerve is effected. Mine used to come an go but is there more days. I take colnzapam usually 1/2 a mg or 1 mg if it is really bad. I have also use warm and cool packs on the side of my face and back of my head and take a nap which helps me.

October 10, 2014
A MyMSTeam Member

that sounds like trigeminal
neuritis

October 9, 2014
A MyMSTeam Member

My apologies. I was trying to answer the person that was a teenager and I must have not chosen the link to her question.

October 9, 2014

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