You Be the Doctor: Mystery Solved - ABC TV show Prime Time

Sept. 19, 2007

Tony Horwitz was a travel writer in his 40s and except for some long-ago kidney stones, was very healthy, until he started to experience strange pains. "I just noticed one day that I had a sore throat in a certain spot on the right side of my throat," he said. "I thought, 'Well, maybe I'm getting a cold.'" Horwitz 's friend, Dr. Alice Flaherty, remembers that Horwitz told her his wife and son both had viruses around the same time, and he thought he'd caught the same thing. "I had...

TNA Response to ABC.com

Patients with Trigeminal Neuralgia (TN) no longer have to feel alone and abandoned. The Trigeminal Neuralgia Association (TNA), a national non-profit organization which was founded in 1990 by TN patients and their family members, now serves over 30,000 patients world-wide.

TNA provides

• one-on-one support via a 1.800# (1.800.929.3608) or email (patientinfo@tna-support.org),

• support groups across the country and around the world,

• free information and educational programs, and

• a website (www.endthepain.org) which is the number one resource on TN and related facial pain conditions for patients, their families, doctors and other medical professionals, policymakers, and the public.

We also provide medical and dental professionals with training as well as information for their patients.

If you or someone you care about has been diagnosed with Trigeminal Neuralgia or another facial pain condition, please contact TNA for support and information. With TNA, hope will become a reality again.

Jane Boles

TNA Executive Director/CEO

Posted at  4:03 PM

Posted 9-20-07