Tongue piercing brings on ‘suicide disease'

[Foxy Brown]

The teenager said the stabbing pains in her face felt like electrical shocks that lasted 10 to 30 seconds and struck 20 to 30 times a day.

Her doctors diagnosed trigeminal neuralgia, a nerve disorder sometimes called “suicide disease” because of the excruciating and dispiriting pain it causes.

Doctors tried painkillers, then stronger medication, but in the end, a cure proved more simple: The young woman removed the metal stud from her pierced tongue.

Two days later her pain vanished.

[shadowstar]

I'm sure this only happens to certain people, that perhaps have very sensitive nerves in certain parts of their body I know lots of people with their tongues pierced and they haven't experienced this.

[john_hung]

glad i just have tattoos

[ziggurat]

well, glad this is not a bacteria infection or deadlier disease. piercing can bring bad luck if not threaten with care after the piercing job. Yeah, look like her piercing hit her nerve net.. i can't imagine how she take her meal... aww