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Pain In Carotid Artery Area, Burning And Numbness In Side Of Face. Sign Of Stroke?
I am experiencing burning/numb sensations, periodically, in the left side of my face and mostly around my mouth/ lips right now. Occasionally I will have warm-dripping sensation in my left arm/hand/face and pain in my carotid artery area. I fear a stroke but would the symptoms really carry on this long? i thought strokes would strike immediately or faster than this. I know of Ischemic attacks but last month I had this as well, and it went away for a while. I have nerve damage yet I cannot differentiate between a possible stroke, allergic reaction or nerve damage.
Fri, 28 Dec 2012
hello sir,
As you describe your pain is around mouth and lip. According to your symptom I dont think its stroke.But this symptom you describe are more consistent with trigeminal neuralgia i.e inflammation of trigemanal nerve .
Stroke generally present with loss of power though there may be certain uncommon presentation.
In your case this is more suggestive of trigeminal neuralgia.
As you describe your pain is around mouth and lip. According to your symptom I dont think its stroke.But this symptom you describe are more consistent with trigeminal neuralgia i.e inflammation of trigemanal nerve .
Stroke generally present with loss of power though there may be certain uncommon presentation.
In your case this is more suggestive of trigeminal neuralgia.
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