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Gabapentin dosage for trigeminal neuralgia?
Brain & Nervous System | Last Active: May 26 4:09pm | Replies (55)Comment receiving replies
I have been reading the many comments in this feed. I have both Trigeminal Neuralgia and Occipital Neuralgia. I have pain when laying down, and I cannot lay on my right side without it causing major pain on the right side of my head and face. I can't wear my glasses for over 5minutes before pain starts. My MRI's show age related disc degeneration, however, NOT in c1,c2,c3 ( which are the nerve that cause head and face pain). But I know this is the primary cause of my pain, because I can move my head and feel the nerves light up. Nothing shows up on an MRI "like a compressed blood vessel" which is typical for TN. I just did a nerve ablation to see if it will help.. 3 weeks in and NOTHING has improved. If anyone who has TN has talked to a spine doctor and had success I would love to know who that doctor is. I did see a neurologist at Mayo, but he classified my situation as cervicogenic heads.. and my situation has gotten much worst since my appointment with him in January. He does not do injections/nerve blocks or anything like that, ( old school doctor) ... I think I need to see someone else at Mayo... If I could find a doctor who can find the "source" of the pain and do surgery I would consider it, but only if they could clearly see what was pressing on the nerves. Any help is GREATLY appreciated, I'm desperate.
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This is just a thought, I was in two car accidents, the last one was near fatal. Because the cars I was using had no seatbelts, naturally I was thrown into the windshields head first and smashed each one. I had disk damaged in the neck, between the shoulder blades and in the lower lumbar area. Each one has acted up over the years, the neck mostly in the C3 to C5 area I believe.
I told you about the accidents since I can empathize with you. Roughly 15 years ago, I was exposed to a drug resistant bug and so no medicine would kill them. Finally my ENT suggested the only drug he had to choose, the drug of last resort it’s called because it kills 99.99% of all bacteria in the human body, good or bad. Before he’d prescribe it, he decided to have a special scan done. It involved scanning from the top of the head straight down to the lower part of the neck. This kind of scan might help detect a pinched nerve in the center of the spinal column. The doctor showed me the scan on his computer, looks weird seeing yourself inside from that direction but it could help you. Good luck.