facial numbness

[shellyb600]

Last saturday I fell and hit the right side of my face on a table, I went to the er and had a cat scan done and x-rays, the scan on my head was fine, but my face is still numb from my lips up to the bottom of my right eye, also the right side of my nose is numb. I can feel pain when i stick my cheek but cant figure out or understand the numbness. Does anyone know anything about this and what i can do to get the feeling back , it's really weird?

[Dr Sharma]

Hello dear and welcome to the medhelp forum. There is a possibility of injury to the maxillary division of trigeminal nerve, which is the main sensory nerve of the face and sends touch, pain, and pressure and temperature sensation from face, tongue and surrounding areas to the brain. The nerve may have been compressed during soft tissue injury to the face or directly injured. Facial nerve that gives motor supply to facial muscles seems to be intact. You need to consult a neurologist for detailed evaluation of function and deficit. Neurological recovery can be expected over few weeks to months if it is reversible damage. Microsurgical repair may be needed if there was severe trauma. Wishing you all the best.

[shellyb600]

Thank you, I will do that.  shelly

[Dagun]

Hi Shelly,
I have a tingling left side of face, but that is a part of bigger problem I have. But I have also a friend that had a surgery on head and then a nerve got hurt and she has a numbness and more problems related to that, she is doing some facial exercises (move all the muscles she can) and they say that the nerve will grow back. She is on the way to recovery. So what I am trying to say is dont worry for now, you should maby do face exercises to help your recovery. Because I would think that you have hit some nerve when you fell, so now it just has to heal.

My best,
Dagun