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

[Jenny Wren]

My brother-in-law fell on the ice back in February, broke the maxillary bone, and orbital, had to have reconstructive surgery, he has damage to his trigeminal nerve, lip numbness, painful teeth, and achey around his entire eye.  Get to a doc and have a brain MRI done, this can be serious if not treated.  The ER actually wanted to life flight my brother-in-law to Pittsburgh, they told him there that if you have a fracture in your face and just a little sliver of bone can go to your brain.  PLEASE go get checked out.  Take care

[joker56]

a year ago, i was headbutted on the left-side of the face. since then, pain and numbness has stayed on the left cheek, also around my left eye, the left side of my nose and down to my upper-lip, gum and front teeth. i'm very worried that this could be permanant. is there any ways or methods that i can use to completly cure this problem?

[vega1318]

A friend of mine had a bad facial injury and had the same kind of sensory disturbance as you describe.   After about 1 month, her feeling came back.   Depending on what happenned to your nerve (whether it was temporarily compressed or completely crushed), the feeling may or may not come back.   After a period of time, you may find that you develop different sensation, such as tingling, in that area -- that is a good sign, don't be alarmed it means the nerves are growing back slowly but it actually takes a few months for that to happen.  

I don't think there's any cure - some have suggested Coenzyme Q10 but it unlikely works.  

[erics75218]

do any of you all have any updatedes to this...I see lots of posts regarding this situation, but no resolution posts.  That tells me that the numbness has gone away, but it'd be comforting to know if this is the case.

[Tennisfan]

i agree! i'm "suffering" from the same issue. It's been three weeks now and i'm gonna see a neurologist at the end of the wek finally! lol

[erics75218]

Tennis fan, has it gotten ANY better.  I noticed today, that I can feel around the crease on my nose by my nostril in the area of my face that is numb, and that made me feel good.  I licked my finger and could feel the wetness..sick...but I was happy.  I think that means at least SOME of the nerve is still connected...YES!!! So I hope that, combined with the tingles and occasional pain in my numb teeth mean that the sensory nerve is INDEED connected and in a FEW SHORT DECADES I will regain feeling!!  It's only been 6 days...I recommend keeping a log of the numbness so you can tell for real what is going on.  

I go to a neurologist on Monday.  Today my ENT said that was a waste of time.  This nerve, runs underneath the eyeball, meaning they can't "tease" it into sending signals because they can't get anything under the eye to touch the nerve to test it.  He said if it's severed he feeling is gone forever and if it's just stretched, or torn a bit, it will grow back over time and he said 4 months'ish.  He told me, when I said that I could feel cold in that little area, oh well you will probably get it back.  

I will let you know what the doctor tells me on Monday.  Lets keep this thread alive, because there is a lack of information concerning this other than I notice a bunch of people have this problem following facial trauma.  And like I said, no posts that say "I GOT MY FEELING BACK" or "IT'S GETTING WAY BETTER NOW"..so either people are blowing themselves away or it IS in fact getting better! hahah

[erics75218]

OK update.  It's only brain and spinal nerve cells that can't repoduce/heal...not "superficial" nerves, so I don't know what that ENT was talkin' about.

The neurologist seemed very unconcerned with my ability to get feeling back.  He took a pin, and stuck my face and what do you know I could feel pain in the numb areas of my cheek, he said the nerve is just damaged and it's going to take longer than 2 weeks.

All that being said, the numb areas are different now 2 weeks out.  I can feel temperature in some areas where I couldn't...and I have regained almost all the feeling in an area by the crease of my left nostril all the way through, like a little river to my cheek.  This "river" seperates 2 areas of numbness on my lip, and on my cheek.

Anyways..................

[Tennisfan]

Hey wassup! Sorry i haven't responded in a while but been a lil' busy. Well last week I went to the hospital to see the neurologist and he said and did basically the same thing. He took a sharp object a gently put it to my face to see if i could feel it. I've regained some feeling in places that there wasn't before but an area under my eye right side of my nose to upper lip are still efected. I can feel very little feelin. He said some nerve in my cheek was broken or something and that it takes time to recover.He said every week a little bit heals which is why it takes so much time. The most important thing is that he said i should get full feelin in a month or two. I'm scheduled to follow up with him in about 8 weeks! Just hearin that has made my days go a lil bit easier even though there are days when i feel like it's driving me crazy!!! lol

[erics75218]

ok, it's now 2 days and 2 months past the day my facial damage occured.  And for about a week I've on occasion "forgot" that my lip is still a bit numb.  I have feeling in my entire face now, where there was none before.  I can still feel in some minor areas the furthest away from the injury "something"...but it's hard to describe.  It's not annoying and I expect it to continue to get better.

So all that being said..........I say 2 month recovery time on this bad boy!  GOOD NEWS!!!!!

[ATLien]

Hello everyone, this has been helpful.  I have numbness on left side of my nose, teeth and left side of my upper lip.  I went to my PCP and she prescribed Neurotin for 30 days.  Did anyone else get medication or just let it heal on it's own?  I do have some sensation and I'm getting a tingling sensations every week and some sharp shooting pains so I'm hopeful, but just curious if I should take the Neurotin or not.  The doctor took xrays and states there is no fracture of any kind.

[ravenrogers]

just had an atv accident feeling in my face sounds exact its been 1 week still no change hope it goes away soon

[deb1405]

My son was recently assulted, which resulted in a fracture to his cheekbone in two places just under his eye socket, there is also a piece of bone fragment sitting there (shown up on CT scan).. he has numbness in his left cheek and into his upper jaw. He is seeing a Facial surgeon on monday... does anyone have any ideas what we might expect him to do...  I am concerned about the bone fragment too.
My son is 21...

[Baskee]

My situation:
I was jumped by about 15 people last saturday night/sunday morning after trying to be a good samaritan and save a lady from being abused. I was kicked in the face numerous times and received a fractured nose, swollen shut black right eye and a few other bumps and cuts on my face. It is now thursday and the swelling has mostly subsided but I have numbness on the right side of my nose, my right upper lip and right front upper teeth. And if I try and blow my nose I get a shooting pain from my nose to my right front right tooth like its about to pop.

Thank you for this post, I have been looking everywhere and there have been no resolution posts until I found this thread. Kind of a bummer to know that it takes so long to repair, but I guess its better than never.

[nanasusie]

I fell 7 feet onto my face last September 20th.  I have had X-rays, a CT and an MRI.  They say there is nothing wrong with me, but I still have a numbness in my face from my nose up to the outside corner of my eye.  It feels like I have novicaned that part of my face.  I am not sure what to do now.  Since it has been 4 months and I haven't seen any improvement I am inclined to return to a doctor, but they don't seem to think there is anything wrong.

[sebulba1997]

i was bumped in the face and immediately felt numbness on my nose, cheekbone,gum and lip.
The sensation is frustrating. The most frightning aspect of this is that when I blew my nose my right eye area swelled up like a balloon.
I'm told this is a transient condition called Orbital Emphesyma.
I will not be blowing my nose for a while. The damage to my nerve is there but each day I feel the smallest improvement. It's been 3 days since the injury and I'm seeing a specialist tomorrow.
the xrays didn't show anything serious but there has to be a break of some kind in order to let air through to the orbital eye area.
I can cope with the numbnesss but I need to blow my nose!

[bruisedface]

I was assaulted and had basically the same sensations, numbness from top of right eye,  cheek, nose, teeth. Numbness and pain it was the oddest feeling its been 6 weeks and feel about halfway recovered hopefully not to much longer

[brokeneye]

this thread seems to have been started in may 2007.  there are alot of people here looking for answers or just wanting to post the predicament that they are in.  I'm in the same predicament.  I was assaulted as well on new years eve and had both eye sockets replaced.  The left side of my face is numb.  as others here have already described, the numbness starts from just under the eyelid all the way down to the the lip and also the tooth is numb.  I too have an occasional itch that cannot be scratched, some pulsing and I've also got hope that the feeling will return.  Its possible that it wont return but I'm hoping for the best as I'm sure most of us that have posted here feel for their own situation.  I'm applying cold compresses and have taken the over the counter arnika for the swelling.  When applying the cold compresses I do get tingling in the numb areas.  I'm not sure if this is good or bad, but I do know that its something different than numb.

[Cooties142]

I fell down and hit my head on the corner of a bookcase,face down,hard impact,  just below the left eye. It made an L shaped cut directly under my eye extending to the nose. My nostril ,upper lip and part of my cheek are numb. I do have feeling and movement ,just numbness. This happened 10 days ago and its still numb. If you have movement , shouldn't any damage to the nerve heal? Anyone with any experience with this in thier past? I would think that if the nerve is severed thier would be no movement at all. Thanks

[roha372]

My husband hit me on my left eye and after that there was immediate pain and my eye got bruised and puffness.however it got away in 2days but there is numbness and tinglinging sensation on my left cheek upper lip and on left side of nose...and its not improving..plz any one can tell me wat happened..

[gnasty]

Has anyone had any good news on the numbness? I was kicked in the face during a martial arts class. The right side of my face immediately went numb below my eye, cheek, right side of nose, lip and front tooth. If I try to blow my nose I get a terrible pain in my tooth, and I can feel air pressure in my eye. I am just looking for good news here. I did have xrays and they found an orbital socket break. The doctor said the numbness should go away in a few days, but it isn't any better after a week.

[gnasty]

Has anyone had any good news on the numbness? I was kicked in the face during a martial arts class. The right side of my face immediately went numb below my eye, cheek, right side of nose, lip and front tooth. If I try to blow my nose I get a terrible pain in my tooth, and I can feel air pressure in my eye. I am just looking for good news here. I did have xrays and they found an orbital socket break. The doctor said the numbness should go away in a few days, but it isn't any better after a week.

[gnasty]

Sorry for the double post.I hit enter twice. How do you delete a post?

[jimbo46]

Hi All,

I have to say thanks for all the posts on this forum. Its really helped me out as i havent been able to find anywhere else to diagnose the problem.
I caught a cheeky punch to my cheek bone and the following morning began to notice the very odd numb pain that you are all also experiencing.
I havent had any scans or X-rays as of yet but may go to the hospital tonight just to double check there's no fracture. I will be sure to question the doctor in depth about the nerve healing process and any medication that may help if i do go, and post on here tomorrow.
Until then, i will continue to itch my un-itchable nose!!
J

[darrmz]

Hi everyone, i have just read what iv been experiencing, i got hit in the eye about 2 days ago, got a black eye and cut to my left temple, went to A & E, and they said it was just  bruising. now 2 days on, i feel numbess just below my left eye, left cheek bone and left nostril and lip, my cheekbone doesnt feel right either, and cannot open my jaw wide, and when i do try and eat i can hear this grinding noise, its not my teeth, and i think i better get back to A & E!!