Chapter Thirteen

Migraine Headaches and
Tic Douloureux (Trigeminal Neuralgia)

Recently we visited with Hilton Sutton, president of Mission to America and a great Bible prophecy teacher. He shared with us for the first time that he had a problem called tic douloureux, or trigeminal neuralgia. We had seen only a few people healed of this painful affliction and did not know of any medical procedure that would help the problem.

The American Medical Association Family Medical Guide, published by Random House (New York, 1991), describes this affliction as pain from a damaged nerve.

This kind of neuralgia rarely affects anyone under fifty except in cases of multiple sclerosis. The trigeminal nerve is a major nerve in the face. If it is damaged, the result is severe pain that is usually felt on only one side of the face. Although it is not life-threatening, trigeminal neuralgia can be distressing and disabling.

We have talked to people who say it is one of the most painful afflictions there is. In fact, it is sometimes called the suicide disease. This same medical guide reports that the pain of trigeminal neuralgia shoots through one side of the face along the length of the nerve. It may last for a few seconds or as long as a minute or more. While it lasts it can be excruciating.

Sometimes attacks occur every few minutes for several days or weeks for no apparent reason. They may then fade, but stabbing pains usually return with decreasing intervals between them. Attacks may eventually become almost continuous. In some cases occasional muscular spasms accompany the pain and cause a facial tic (twitching) or paralysis.

Hilton told us that for eight long and painful years he had suffered with tie douloureux. It was getting so bad that he was considering canceling some of his speaking engagements. Then he said, “The medical world has discovered a surgery that can stop this excruciating pain.” We listened intently, because when a cause and a cure are discovered, we often find clues to a healing that God has in store for us.

He explained the type of surgery performed. They drill a hole through the skull into a place where a blood vessel or artery is too close to a nerve. Then they place a medical wedge between the two, which stops the pain.

Our response was “Thank You, Jesus!” Immediately we laid hands on Hilton’s head and commanded a divine wedge to separate the vessel or artery and the nerve. We gave thanks to Jesus. When Hilton called a month later, he said the only pain he had experienced since that day was a headache resulting from a stressful situation.

Another month went by, and we talked again on the day we were writing this story. Hilton said he has had no more pain. Glory to God for healing him!

And thank You, Jesus, for showing us how to heal tic douloureux.

However, Hilton Sutton was so far behind on his work and his speaking engagements because of the excruciating pain of tic douloureux, when God healed him, he immediately started rebooking and overbooked himself including a long trip to Singapore and Malaysia. When he came back he was in the same condition he was in before God healed him. Hilton went to the hospital and had the operation done. The doctors worked for about four hours and said they’d never seen so many tangled nerves and blood vessels in their entire lives.

Hilton called us and said, “I know I was healed by God but I brought it back on myself through overwork and through stress.”

Stress is one of the worst things in the world to which any of us can subject ourselves because it brings on in- numerable diseases. Hilton still maintains to this day that God healed him but he lost it through carelessness on his part.

The Bible says, “Cast all your cares on Him, and He will give you rest!”

Date: 2015-02-16; view: 796