Facial numbness following an accident

[Suzen]

I recently fell down and hit my face.  Since that time I've had numbness in the right side of my nose and down through my right cheek, lip and front tooth.  Do I have nerve damage and will it go away on it's own?   Suzen

[xrav82]

... I meant shot with a cortisone drug (but which works very long ..few weeks)

[xrav82]

Weehaaa!  after 3 years of contanst mild compression due to overlooked minor ZMC fracture which caused mild numbness which was so annoying... I got shot near the infraorbital canal with cortisone and started laser stymulation teraphy..and I have 100% of feeling after 2 weeks...no numbness...I have a lot of pain probably due to compression or regenerating process...but the most important is I do not have now negative symptoms (permament damage) only positive which may fade out over the time or after decompression surgery.... 3 years of nerve compression and still alive..I'm a robo cop :) i'm so happy ....i'm so happy despite of pain and little deformation (little flattened side of face) For those with chronic problem (> 1 year) try these 2 medical procedures... cortisone shot near infraorbial foramen and laser teraphy - this was my idea, noone doctor was able to help me

[Manicmocker]

Had a guy jump the gun on a conversation assumed the worse and punch me 3 times in the left side of the face 'Three Piece' they called it... anyhow I noticed nerve shutdown right away but I was able to stay standing with a smile on my face so I figured not too much damage was done so no fractures, had small cut to the eye and puffing below my eye near my nose and a fat lip AKA typical boxer injury, have not been to the doctor as this happened yesterday and office is closed but seems no need to rush the ER for mine but I feel numbness in my 4 left top teeth and a constant tingling and partial numbness in the tip of my thumb even, I feel the constant annoying need to pop the bone below my eye and my nose but when I apply pressure to do so my left cheek, arm, thumb tingle and my teeth hurt immensely I assume just pinched the nerve due to tingling all the way to my thumb and I read that the cheekbone will eventually cross the nerve again putting it all back to order but I will see the doc to be sure when I can and keep updated but mainly putting my part here to display if anyone has tingling also in their arm and are slightly concerned that they don't flip out

[xrav82]

As I see noone of You have overlooked facial bone fracture

[xrav82]

I'm still depressed, that my neurologist didn't send me to maxillo-facial surgeon and didn't perform CT  this reduced my chances for full nerve recovery

I have about 90% of normal feeling on all the area... it's very annoying :(

[xrav82]

look on CT how looks your infraorbital canal