Dental pain

[romit3]

Sometimes all of my teeth hurt at once, both upper and lower. Is this to do with PD? It's only happened half a dozen times in the past few years, and usually only lasts a minute or two, but it's very painful.

[Beckey]

Wild guess, but it sure sounds like trigeminal post-herpetic neuralgia. I developed this after I started taking chemo meds for chronic leukemia (gleevec). It can be just terribly painful. Turned out there was nothing wrong with any of my teeth, it's in the nerves and a frequent reaction to chemo (but also due to other things). Have you suffered any outbreaks in your mouth and/or throat? After it subsides, you get the big zap. I switched from gleevec to nilotinib, but once that instruction has been etched into your nerve path, you're pretty much stuck with it. When I feel it coming on, I take a prescription Rx called valcyclovir. It works like a charm!

[Beckey in reply to Beckey]

So I am a cheerleader for drugs, though I used to be a pharmaceutical naysayer. I am in complete remission for leukemia due to nilotinib and get quick relief from trigeminal neuralgia thanks to valcyclovir!

[romit3 in reply to Beckey]

Thanks Becky. It could be some kind of TN (not post-herpetic, although I did have shingles once many years ago), but I don't think it's the meds, as the first occurrence was before I was diagnosed with PD (in 2012). I'm only on Selegiline/Mirapexin.

[Kaykaykay123]

Yes I have the same but thought its because I clench my teeth.

[Astra7]

Occasionally my teeth feel like they are all being pulled out by s magnetic force. It is uncomfortable and passes. I think it's to do with lack of oxygen to the jaw muscles due to PD.

[Beckey]

Shows what I know!

[Astra7 in reply to Beckey]

I don't really know anything. I just make up all these theories!! They are probably all wrong!