Facial Numbness - Multiple Sclerosis Message Board

lestoby · 03-27-2006, 07:48 PM

What does facial numbness feel like? If you have this symptom, can you please describe.

I have always had a heavy pain feeling in my eyebrows where it feels like they are enlarged and falling down and I have to constantly keep lifting them back up (hard to describe).

And now, I have been having an intermittent throbbing / pulsating (like a wave or thump) feeling between my cheek and jaw - right about the level of my back molar on my lower jaw. It was hurting a few days ago, and now it is just a "sensation". Initially, I thought I was coming down with a possible earache (like the ear / sinus was draining into this point), but I have no other symptoms, nor does it feel like a toothache.

Thanks for any help you can provide

rhondabuzz · 03-27-2006, 08:07 PM

Hi Lestoby

I've had some facial numbness and to me it feels like a heaviness and kinda like how u'r face feels after it's mostly back alive after a dentist appointment. It started out with a slight tingling in my cheekbone area...from there on out it's been numb off and on.

About the ear thing...i too have a weird thing in my ear(s). Mostly in my left ear. It feels like my ear is "draining" at times..and sometimes like how they feel when they get stopped up when u have a cold...but it only lasts a min or less. The draining feeling is the same way...only a min or less...but often enuf that it's annoying.

Hope this helps even tho it's not really what u were lookin for! Good luck and i'll keep u in my prayers.

rhondabuzz

1Thes518 · 03-28-2006, 04:26 PM

Hi, I have not been diagnosed with anything yet, but do have facial tingling. The best way I can describe it is that it feels like soda bubbles! The right side of my face, from under eyes, down to jaw feels like a gentle "bubbling" tingle. In addition, I have a harsher sensation, that feels like a hair in my face, and it runs down from my eye, next to my nose. It feels like someone is dragging a string down my face. Hope this helps.

1Thess518

lilc · 03-28-2006, 04:31 PM

Oh my. I've never replied on a thread about facial numbness, but the last hour of my work day today I kept trying to get the hair off my face beside my nose. After about 15 minutes of trying I realized it was a little touch of numbness.
I remembered that I've had the "problem" before, just didn't realize what it was. I wouldn't call it "facial numbness", just a small, slightly numb spot.

Life4Fun · 03-29-2006, 06:33 PM

Lesto and Rhonda,

It's so funny you should mention this ear sensation. I have been having that a lot in the past year or so. To me it feels like when you (ok, sorry but this is gross) sniffle in really hard and your ear feels like it's stopped up like when you are on an airplane or going up or down a mountain. Sometimes I have to blow my nose or just swallow or yawn to make it go away. It's like equalizing pressure when you are SCUBA diving. I thought this was just a weird thing like I had a cold or even when I didn't have a cold, but seeing a few people post about something similar tells me that it must be the MS. On ocassion, I notice that one of my ears will just feel like it's got pressure and some slight ringing, but it goes away quickly. Have any of you read about an MS patient having hearing loss? I have not, but now I am going to worry about it.

Now WHAT in the world could cause this to happen to us?

And about the eyelid thing. Maybe I have watched too many reality TV shows about plastic surgery, but I have been thinking that I am just getting old and my eyelids need a lift (not that I would EVER have the nerve to go under the knife for it). I will sometimes just take my index finger and lift my lid at the brow just the smallest amount and it feels like I can see better and like my eyelids are so much lighter. I have been wishing for special invisible tape that could do the trick! haha

But maybe there is nothing related to sagging eyelids at all and it's just another thing to have to deal with for me.

Frannie