Living hell: 28-year-old womans battle with suicide disease

Every day for almost three years, Emily Morton has felt nothing but pain.Back in early 2022, the Australian woman had the entire world at her feet.The 28-year-old had just tied the knot with the love of her life, Andy, with the pair getting ready to start their own family.But then Morton noticed a strange nagging pain starting to emerge in her teeth.She visited a dentist, who could not see anything awry.Within days, the pain became excruciating, spreading to her entire mouth and both sides of her face.“Imagine having a dentist drill into every single one of your teeth 24/7 and there is nothing you can do to stop the pain,” Morton told news.com.au.“I began experiencing electric shocks going through both sides of my face, triggered by anything that touched my face.“It would hurt when I smiled, talked and ate.

All normal things.There are no words to describe this degree of pain.“It is like being struck by lightning, it makes you want to fall to the ground and scream.”After dentists and doctors were unable to diagnose her bizarre condition, Morton went through a series of brain scans and blood tests to try and get to the bottom of what she was experiencing.She was eventually diagnosed with atypical trigeminal neuralgia, a variant of classic trigeminal neuralgia.The condition affects the trigeminal nerve which carries signals from the face to the brain and can cause jolts of pain after even only light touching of an area of the face.While it usually only involves one side of the face, Morton was experiencing pain all over.Doctors told her that it is the “most painful condition known to medicine” – and there is basically nothing they can do to help.The disorder earned the nickname of being the “suicide disease” as those who suffer it are in so much pain they often “wish they were dead”.Morton said there are still no real answers as to how or why she contracted it.“We have spent thousands of dollars trying to find a cause and an effective trea...