After trying 2 prescribed medications to relieve my facial tingling, I had to give on them due to horrendous side effects which I couldn’t take, has anyone discovered anything else in a more natural remedy which works?
My GP isn’t being very helpful.
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Have your searched on here ?
As I said before Nigel was the resident expert on neurological medication - more in the pain end of the spectrum - you’ll have to join him on WhatsApp because he left here over curation.
All his excellent content went too 
@pando is the resident expert on supplement and the etc’s of therapies.
If you’ve had two medications since your posts on Sunday or week before or even the two earlier in Sept then you are perhaps beginning to see that time scale for managing stroke impacts need different appreciation from many other challenges.
Most of the neurologically effective medications will take some weeks before they have effect and during which the side effects may subside.
There is an nnt number Number Needed To Treat (again Nigel is our expert) It is a metric of effectiveness and many neurological medicines have a very high number (read as poor success rate) for anyone individual
I guess as far as relief for you is concerned
1 is do what you’re doing and
Continue asking for peer experiences and medical staff input from all that you can reach out to - treat all the information you get with scepticism
2 realize that time scales
for this are likely to be longer than you envisaged and that there is a balance between the primary problem and the secondary effects of medication,
3 Search for other therapist
those that have been mentioned. I think they are hyperbaric oxygen obtainable via the MS society who have rebranded their treatment centres & I can’t remember to what. They offer treatments at a low price but you’ll need a program - You might also browse their forum where the community discusses pain treatment - It uses the same Discourse software as here so no new learning to do on that front (tingling is a part of the spectrum of pain and they have 50 plus posts on it), investigate acupressure and acupuncture, maybe investigate near infrared which is something that Roland is a proponent (he has posted lots that you can find with the magnifying glass) and or that Roland (or Lorraine?) can maybe suggest something I haven’t mentioned (I’m a long way from covering it all I’m sure)
Caio
Simon
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And I should also have said…
that when searching search of terns like “gabapentin” and the other meds that are typically prescribed, Search for the meds that you were prescribed on here & other relevant fora and the internet generally
3¢
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Hi. I do not know how to solve paraesthesia. For me sand on my foot is amazing; it appeases and satisfies my nerves which are begging for gentle stimulation. In other words, I consider it (parae.) a good thing. I do use essential oils to attenuate the tingling, in particular Copaiba which our CBD receptors respond to ; cbd oil itself should help. I’m afraid that’s the extent of my knowledge, but if I can think of more things, I will post here.
I remember a walk I did a year ago, and the parae. was extreme in my foot, but I worked out that I was feeling the blood flow through my veins… more simply, my circulation. And it may be an over sensitivity to that. If you increase circulation does P increase proportionately?
I hope it will attenuate with time; meanwhile it may get uncomfortable at times. I went through a plethora of problems (and still go through a few) that it may have never made the top 10 in my list of probs. !!
Good luck, Roland
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I empathise, having the same problem. I use an essential oil mix of rosemary, Copaiba, frankincense and myrrh with a castor oil and grape seed oil base. It helps on my face but not so much anywhere else where the parathesia is more intense. I have sort of got used to it on my face now but there are still days when it’s more uncomfortable. As @pando says, hopefully, it will attenuate with time. And if it doesn’t, we will adapt and learn to live with it. Hopefully.
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@Injebreck99 I wonder if you need to allow longer for the side effects to settle & the meds to start working. Sometimes this can be weeks rather than days but I would hope the dr who prescribed them would have told you this. Of course, if the side effects are worse than the initial problem then that puts a different perspective on it. Everything stroke related takes time & heaps of patience sadly.
Hope you get some reprieve soon.
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Definitely have a lot of uses for Rosemary, including any burning Buzzing / peripheral neuropathy. It’s my goto oil at the mo
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@pando
I’ll soon be writing up my experiences with CBD and medical cannabis. Watch this space!
Trace
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