Hi Everyone, I got my 4th Moderna shot 11/4/22. On Saturday morning 11/5, I started having pain that radiated from the back of my head to my jaw on the left side. It waned during the day, came back for awhile in the evening and then seemed to dissipate a bit. I haven’t previously been diagnosed with TN but I’ve spent the past 1 1/2 years btwn dentist, eye doc, ENT and chiropractor due to mild to more severe consistent pressure through my left side jaw, sinuses, ear. Never awful just also never seems to go away. I went to the chiropractor that Monday assuming something was going on in my neck, the adjustment provided some mild relief. On Wednesday at 1:03 I woke up with such sharp pain radiating through my jaw, up to my forehead, around my ear it was unsleepable. On Thursday I was able to get in to see my primary who said my symptoms were typical TN. She’s trying to get an MRI approved to see if they can see an impingement. I did tell her about my Covid booster (Moderna) she didn’t think there was a correlation. Here’s the thing though - my lymph nodes always sweep as a response to the shot under my arm, pretty badly actually. This time under my arm was moderate but it seemed under my jaw and back behind my ear was also swollen. I’m wondering if this could have been the trigger for what appears to be a full blown TN attack, something I’ve never experienced before? The ncbi is reporting 3 cases of vaccine TN response. I believe they were all with the Pfizer vaccine though. I’m the meantime Advil every 4 hours, heat, soft room temperature foods seems to keep the pain at moderate🙁

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