Tag: microvascular decompression
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Grief and Trauma
Check the Get The Whole Story: Please check the Microvascular Decompression tag page to hear all the updates about my MVD surgery. Welcome to the What’s The Matter With Me? Podcast, “grief and trauma” Overlapping grief and trauma and my new post-trigeminal neuralgia existence are causing anxiety and fear. My brain chemistry, the amygdala, stress, fight-or-flight…
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My Life Feels Totally Different Now
Get The Whole Story: Please check the Microvascular Decompression tag page to hear all the updates about my MVD surgery. I record this podcast to let people know when bad things happen you don’t have to quit. You can keep going. I’ve learned things along the way. I started out thinking that I was sick but…
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Recovering from microvascular decompression (MVD) surgery
Get The Whole Story: Please check the Microvascular Decompression tag page to hear all the updates about my MVD surgery. So they were like, “Something is weird. We got to put the EKG on him.” But I’m like a hairy individual, you know? So they got out the trimmers, they’re like, “What?” They’re just like, “What…
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The Pre-Op + Amy’s Wedding
Get The Whole Story: Please check the Microvascular Decompression tag page to hear all the updates about my MVD surgery. What’s The Matter With Me? Podcast Season 3, Episode 14 Excerpt: “Flapping My Arms” One thing I did notice about the last episode is that I’m flapping my arms again. I first figured out of it…
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Going to have micro vascular decompression surgery (MVD)
Trigeminal neuralgia hurts like hell. I’m going to have micro vascular decompression surgery, get out of pain, get off these pain medications, and contribute to my family again. I signed up to have surgery. They’re going to pop a hole in my skull and operate on my trigeminal nerve. It’s called micro vascular decompression surgery.