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Relief of Tic Douloureux
By Evelyn M. Thomson
I do not remember a time when I was able to see comfortably. At
fifteen, following an attack of grippe, I began to have so much
trouble with my eyes that I was taken out of school, and the late Dr.
H. D. Noyes gave me my first glasses. From that time on I wore glasses
constantly, with many changes ordered by many different specialists,
until I came to Dr. Bates. Sometimes they helped me, but I never was
able to do any near work without discomfort, and I could not play
tennis because it hurt my eyes to follow the ball.
When I was eighteen a polyp in the right middle ear broke through the
drum, and a great quantity of pus poured out. This was the beginning
of a long series of treatment and operations, during which I suffered
increasing pain on the right side of my head, and which left me with
no bones in the middle ear and an opening in the drum. After the last
operation I was ill for nine months, and for a much longer time there
was a weakness and loss of sensibility in the left side of body.
In 1905 I had trouble with the antrum on the left side of the face,
and in order to release the pus which had collected here, a wisdom
tooth was extracted, the wound being kept open for three months. A
second tooth was then extracted, and one by one all the teeth on the
left side of the upper jaw were taken out. Then the dentist declined
to extract any more, saying that it was only increasing the trouble,
instead of relieving it.
From the beginning of this condition I had a continual pain in the
left side of the face, and this developed into what is known as "tic
douloureux", a painful contraction of the facial muscles, which
continued for fifteen years. Everything possible was resorted to for
the relief of this trouble except drugs, which I refused to take, and
nerve-cutting which I refused to admit to. Spinal treatment gave me
more help than anything else.
From 1914 to 1918, in spite of the discomfort resulting from the use
of my eyes at the near-point, I read aloud for many hours every day.
At the end of this time my eyes went to pieces completely. All winter
I went every week to a specialist for treatment, but received no
benefit. Then I went to another specialist. He gave me new glasses,
but these seemed only to make the condition worse. I could not read
without pain in my eyes and a contraction of the nerves and muscles on
the left side of my face. At night the lid of the left eye became
partially paralyzed, so that I had to force the eye open when I
wakened and was afraid the time might come when I would not be able to
keep it open. On the street the muscles on the left side of the face
contracted all around the eye, across the bridge of the nose, and
toward the temple. This I attributed to the increase of eyestrain by
the wind and light.
On April 22 of last year I went to Dr. Bates in despair. My eyesight
was getting worse from month to month, and the facial condition seemed
also to be getting worse. In addition I suffered from noises in my
left ear so loud and continuous that it seemed at times as if the top
of my head would blow off.
Palming was the first thing Dr. Bates told me to do. At first I saw
all sorts of lights. Then I saw grey, and at last I became
sufficiently relaxed to see black. I found the use of the imagination
and memory a great aid in palming. I visualized out-of-doors and the
things I had seen in my travels. This produced relaxation, and I
forgot the pain and the noise in my ear. I also found it a help to be
read to while palming. The universal swing relieved the tension which
I had always experienced on the street.
For some months my eyes did not seem to respond to the treatment. The
first intimation of gain was the natural opening of my left eye at
night. Next my right eye, which had been very numb and blurred, began
to have a feeling of life. Later I experienced an increase of pain in
the center of both eyes. Strange to say this encouraged me; for the
new pain was quite different from the dull ache I had had before, and
made me feel that life was returning to my eyes.
One day, when the pulling of the facial muscles was very severe, Dr.
Bates asked me to flash a little card which he held close to my nose.
This was very unpleasant at first; but suddenly the muscles relaxed,
the pain in my face and eyes ceased, and I saw things at the distance
clearly. It was only a flash; but after that I seemed to understand
better the goal toward which I was working. Since then I have often
obtained relief in this way. These glimpses of paradise are what has
sustained me through months of treatment which would otherwise have
been unbearably monotonous.
My vision has improved slowly, but the progress has been a constant
source of excitement to me. When I first saw the faces of my friends
clearly I rejoiced, and I cannot describe the feeling of relief that
came to me when the dishes on the table ceased to hurt me, as all near
objects had previously done. The light and the color I now see are a
revelation to me. I had been told printer's ink was black, but until I
went to Dr. Bates I never saw it so. Neither did I ever see anything
like the white I see now. I have a delightful time reading the signs
in the subway and enjoying their colors. Not only in color, but in
form, things look different to me. Instead of being flat, as they once
were, they seem to have a fourth dimension. Distant objects appear
surprisingly near. Sitting in the balcony at a concert one afternoon,
the orchestra seemed to be almost in my lap. In the dress circle at
the opera I seemed to be almost on the stage. When I wore glasses the
stage was always miles away. My vision is not normal yet; I cannot
read print with comfort. But after such marvellous improvement I feel
sure that this will soon come. As for the facial pain and contraction,
they are practically cured. When the trouble returns, as it sometimes
does, I know how to relieve it.
I am very glad to have an opportunity to tell this story, and I wish I
knew how to make it known to all who are suffering from defective
eyesight, or of facial neuralgia, that these conditions can be cured
by relaxation, and that the dreadful operations which are resorted to
in the case of the neuralgia are unnecessary.
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Pain Number
Better Eyesight
A monthly magazine devoted to the prevention and cure of imperfect
sight without glasses
Copyright, 1921, by the Central Fixation Publishing Company
Editor—W. H. Bates, M.D.
Publisher—Central Fixation Publishing Co.
$2.00 per year, 20 cents per copy
342 West 42nd Street, New York, N. Y.
Vol. IV - February 1921 - No. 2
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Relief of Tic Douloureux
By Evelyn M. Thomson
I do not remember a time when I was able to see comfortably. At
fifteen, following an attack of grippe, I began to have so much
trouble with my eyes that I was taken out of school, and the late Dr.
H. D. Noyes gave me my first glasses. From that time on I wore glasses
constantly, with many changes ordered by many different specialists,
until I came to Dr. Bates. Sometimes they helped me, but I never was
able to do any near work without discomfort, and I could not play
tennis because it hurt my eyes to follow the ball.
When I was eighteen a polyp in the right middle ear broke through the
drum, and a great quantity of pus poured out. This was the beginning
of a long series of treatment and operations, during which I suffered
increasing pain on the right side of my head, and which left me with
no bones in the middle ear and an opening in the drum. After the last
operation I was ill for nine months, and for a much longer time there
was a weakness and loss of sensibility in the left side of body.
In 1905 I had trouble with the antrum on the left side of the face,
and in order to release the pus which had collected here, a wisdom
tooth was extracted, the wound being kept open for three months. A
second tooth was then extracted, and one by one all the teeth on the
left side of the upper jaw were taken out. Then the dentist declined
to extract any more, saying that it was only increasing the trouble,
instead of relieving it.
From the beginning of this condition I had a continual pain in the
left side of the face, and this developed into what is known as "tic
douloureux", a painful contraction of the facial muscles, which
continued for fifteen years. Everything possible was resorted to for
the relief of this trouble except drugs, which I refused to take, and
nerve-cutting which I refused to admit to. Spinal treatment gave me
more help than anything else.
From 1914 to 1918, in spite of the discomfort resulting from the use
of my eyes at the near-point, I read aloud for many hours every day.
At the end of this time my eyes went to pieces completely. All winter
I went every week to a specialist for treatment, but received no
benefit. Then I went to another specialist. He gave me new glasses,
but these seemed only to make the condition worse. I could not read
without pain in my eyes and a contraction of the nerves and muscles on
the left side of my face. At night the lid of the left eye became
partially paralyzed, so that I had to force the eye open when I
wakened and was afraid the time might come when I would not be able to
keep it open. On the street the muscles on the left side of the face
contracted all around the eye, across the bridge of the nose, and
toward the temple. This I attributed to the increase of eyestrain by
the wind and light.
On April 22 of last year I went to Dr. Bates in despair. My eyesight
was getting worse from month to month, and the facial condition seemed
also to be getting worse. In addition I suffered from noises in my
left ear so loud and continuous that it seemed at times as if the top
of my head would blow off.
Palming was the first thing Dr. Bates told me to do. At first I saw
all sorts of lights. Then I saw grey, and at last I became
sufficiently relaxed to see black. I found the use of the imagination
and memory a great aid in palming. I visualized out-of-doors and the
things I had seen in my travels. This produced relaxation, and I
forgot the pain and the noise in my ear. I also found it a help to be
read to while palming. The universal swing relieved the tension which
I had always experienced on the street.
For some months my eyes did not seem to respond to the treatment. The
first intimation of gain was the natural opening of my left eye at
night. Next my right eye, which had been very numb and blurred, began
to have a feeling of life. Later I experienced an increase of pain in
the center of both eyes. Strange to say this encouraged me; for the
new pain was quite different from the dull ache I had had before, and
made me feel that life was returning to my eyes.
One day, when the pulling of the facial muscles was very severe, Dr.
Bates asked me to flash a little card which he held close to my nose.
This was very unpleasant at first; but suddenly the muscles relaxed,
the pain in my face and eyes ceased, and I saw things at the distance
clearly. It was only a flash; but after that I seemed to understand
better the goal toward which I was working. Since then I have often
obtained relief in this way. These glimpses of paradise are what has
sustained me through months of treatment which would otherwise have
been unbearably monotonous.
My vision has improved slowly, but the progress has been a constant
source of excitement to me. When I first saw the faces of my friends
clearly I rejoiced, and I cannot describe the feeling of relief that
came to me when the dishes on the table ceased to hurt me, as all near
objects had previously done. The light and the color I now see are a
revelation to me. I had been told printer's ink was black, but until I
went to Dr. Bates I never saw it so. Neither did I ever see anything
like the white I see now. I have a delightful time reading the signs
in the subway and enjoying their colors. Not only in color, but in
form, things look different to me. Instead of being flat, as they once
were, they seem to have a fourth dimension. Distant objects appear
surprisingly near. Sitting in the balcony at a concert one afternoon,
the orchestra seemed to be almost in my lap. In the dress circle at
the opera I seemed to be almost on the stage. When I wore glasses the
stage was always miles away. My vision is not normal yet; I cannot
read print with comfort. But after such marvellous improvement I feel
sure that this will soon come. As for the facial pain and contraction,
they are practically cured. When the trouble returns, as it sometimes
does, I know how to relieve it.
I am very glad to have an opportunity to tell this story, and I wish I
knew how to make it known to all who are suffering from defective
eyesight, or of facial neuralgia, that these conditions can be cured
by relaxation, and that the dreadful operations which are resorted to
in the case of the neuralgia are unnecessary.
____
Pain Number
Better Eyesight
A monthly magazine devoted to the prevention and cure of imperfect
sight without glasses
Copyright, 1921, by the Central Fixation Publishing Company
Editor—W. H. Bates, M.D.
Publisher—Central Fixation Publishing Co.
$2.00 per year, 20 cents per copy
300 Madison Avenue, New York, N. Y.
Vol. IV - February 1921 - No. 2
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