pabuddy

After all these years of suffering with TN I finally am getting relief. I have been getting acupunturist for the last year.  I am not taking any medication for the last year but I am drinking a tea...

A the end of July my neurologist decided to let me slowly decrease the oxcarbenzapine(8 -150 mg per day). The third week of August I was taking 4 pill a day and the TN pain came back. I developed an...

Waiting to hear about my liver function test. I have been taking 1200 mg of trileptal for over a month now and I am concerned about the side affects. All this time I have been blaming this drug for...

So depressing to be trapped inside today due to the large dose of trileptal. This large dose of 1200 mg is making me so depressed I don't even want to watch television. It is hard to snap out of...

My life is so restricted on all this medicine I am starting to feel depress. 

 Feel like a zombie but able to get through the day.

I am  not able to drive my car at all. I just asked a friend to take me on doctors appointments on the 25 and 40.

Taking 8 Trileptal and Oxyodone and still no relief. 

Does anyone else feel so alone having TN?

Pain this morning. Had to increase dose to 1200 mg

Had to increase the Trileptal to 1050 mg due to pain yesterday.

Neurologist increased my dosage of trileptal to a total of 900 mgs today.

If so how much are you taking?

Taking 750 mg of Trileptal...no pain. Neurologist stated that the surgery takes up to 3 months to work. 

Yesterday  I had gamma knife surgery at Presb Hospital in Pittsburgh, PA. Most difficult problem was driving there at 5 am for the procedure The staff and the procedure was comfortable. I was told...