I’m sorry to say that, although I (finally) saw the pain Dr today, I am too wiped to write much. I have had huge amounts of pain today. Yesterday and today have both been bad days. I suppose it’s a good thing to actually be in pain when I saw the Dr!  I often find that, in a Murphy’s law kind of way, the pain or whatever I’m seeing the Dr for seems to let up when you’re at the dr’s office. Well, today, I definitely had pain while at his office…bad, bad pain! He had moved some things around, medication-wise. Substituting a new one in place of another. Raising the dose of one and lowering that of another. Also, he had the pharmacist make a topical compound (lotion-based) that is supposed to help relieve nerve-pain. I have this kind of glazed, doped up, look in my eyes and an extreme feeling of fatigue and lethargy, after taking the new medication. Also, I feel extremely nauseous. I have my fingers, toes and everything else possible, crossed that these will be temporary…

I am super tired, which is most likely due to a combination of the medication and being unable to fall asleep last night until about 2:00AM and then waking up at 6:00AM to get to my 8:00Am appointed in St. Albert! So, on that note, I need to lie down and sleep sleep sleep!!! I’m just extremely exhausted and overwhelmed! The Dr helped write out a plan and spent over an hour with us, I’m just done-in for the day…

To help with research and treatment for Trigeminal Neuralgia please go to http://www.tnnme.com (Trigeminal Neuralgia and Me) to sign a petition to have the World Health Organization (WHO) add Trigeminal Neuralgia (TN) to their “Health Topic List”! 

Hopefully one day I’ll get it right, or at least have fun, while about it I write!!