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Saturday 10 July 2010

My Trigeminal Neuralgia 11

Things have been going pretty well since my last post. I still get episodes of intense pain in short bursts and for the first time since I started taking Tegretol, around 6 years ago, I can really feel it working keeping the pain largely suppressed. God knows how bad it would be without the medication. 1200mgs a day, which I’d rather not take but, hey ho!! I attended the pain clinic at Crosshouse Hospital on Thursday 8 July where I discussed the last few weeks with Consultant Anaesthetist, Charles Martin. To be honest, I felt a bit of a fraud because there was I in the waiting area with people who were obviously in great pain while I looked a picture of health and happiness. I’ve never thought of myself as having an illness, more of a victim. Doc Martin pretty much agreed with the medication and underlined the fact that Tegretol is the best treatment in most cases. He also discussed surgical options which I’m not keen on at this time, but if the bouts of pain increase and become more prolonged, I will seriously need to consider surgery. My wife says I’m daft enough without people poking around in my brain.
Onward and upward.