I'm a 25 y.O. Guy from israel. I've been suffering from tn for the past 6 years. It first appeared after a second surgery I undergone for my right frontal sinusitis. In the last year i've undergone two more operations in the same sinus (altogether i've undergone 4 operations). In the past few months i've been suffering from enormous pain, and my tn has passed to my left side as well. I suffer from pain attacks in all my branches, and i'm at a point in which the attacks appear every few minutes (at my good days I have an attack every couple of hours or so). I don't sleep well, I can hardly go out. I work the minimum I can, and try to work as much as I can from home. I also had to quit my uni studies, and I truly fear about my future. When I first was diagnosed with tn I read on a web site that some people commit suicide because they can't stand the pain. In the past few weeks i, for the first time, can relate to that degree of desperations. Though I don't have suicidal tendencies, I sometimes think that this would be the only way to stop the pain.
I recently started going to a pain clinic, and tried again all sorts of pain killers, including psychoactive drugs (elatrolet), a drug which is similar to viox (arcoxia - it's still approved) and tramal (tramadex), with no improvment whatsoever. I've also had some iv treatment which wasn't a big help either.
Next week i'm about to start a course of treatments of mesotherapy. Has anyone here tried it? Do you have any relevant information?
My next step is to get an injection that's supposed to "kill" the nerve (or let it sleep for a while...). Has anyone tried that?
Any suggestions or thoughts would be very helpful.
Thanks,
roy