Help Kyle Treat His Trigeminal Neuralgia

UPDATE: This has been an incredibly overwhelming response, thank you all so much. I am going to keep the gofundme up even though it hit the goal number, if you’d like to donate past it, it would mean the world. My actual needed figure it much higher, but I don't want to adjust the number because I feel so grateful and it is cool to see a bar get all full.

Hey folks. I feel incredibly self-conscious doing this. If you don't know, I have a nerve/brain disorder called Trigeminal Neuralgia , aka "Suicide Disease." Though "Suicide Disease" may sound like an alternative phrase for "Doing Standup Comedy," they're pretty much unrelated. It's a rare nerve disease in my head, that causes a tremendous amount of pain in awful, awful spurts.

For years I've lived with and attempted to treat, and treated this exploding electric pain in my face and head. I've been misdiagnosed, mistreated, paid for operations and treatments that didn't work, made it worse, or were for a misdiagnosis. I've taken pills, gotten injections, treatments, even brain surgery, and the issue persists. I had a brain surgery called Microvascular Decompression (wild brain surgery pic below), that briefly alleviated the issue, but it has returned in a worse way. I am drowned in debt from years of treatment. The pain is unbearable, and prevents me from having a regular life. Talking, flying, all of that stuff exacerbates the pain. If I can, I'd love to raise money and climb back into other forms of treatment that I can't currently afford. This would help cut into their costs so I could pursue them.

You can read some about it all, here, if that's your thing, the TN and me and comedy. Thank you. If you've been in my life, or around me really at all in the last five or six years, you've seen how this affects me on a daily, physical basis.

I know it's the holidays, and I am sorry for asking. I want to be able to offer people something for helping me out, so I am going to share links here that will be livestreams of comedy stuff I can do, for people to watch wherever they are. . I have been and am blessed with great people in my life who have helped me through this. Thank you, I appreciate you all. Just reading and learning about this awful disease it helpful, people struggle with this sort of stuff and you cannot even tell, it is a nightmare. Anyways here's that cool brain surgery pic.