Hello,

i'm a sometime migraine sufferer, but thankfully I can count my migraines in times per year, rather than per month or week. As you will all have experienced the debilitating effects, I can only be thankful for this.

However, there is a much worse problem which I do not know if is associated or not. Three years ago I began to get severe stabbing left eye pain on a regular basis. A visit to a homeopath brought temporary relief, but they continue to blight my life. They are now occuring with startling regularity - I get the stabbing pain every day - it flares up between 5am and 7am, and frequently continues throughout the day as a soreness and tenderness of my eye with extreme sensitivity to light.

I have visited an opthalmologist, who told me the eye was normal.

I have also visited a neurologist who, having carried out an mri scan, could not identify any problems. He did suggest tegretol (carbamazepine) as a medicine, but I was concerned that as he was unable to specify any problem, then he was using tegretol as an easy way out. I was worried about the possibilities of side-effects without clear benefits. Can anyone tell me of there experience with tegretol?

I am wondering if migraine and left eye pain are associated. Finally, I would also like to know if there could be any connection with wisdom teeth. I have impacted wisdom teeth which will be removed in the next few months. Is there any link between impacted wisdom teeth and eye pain???

I would really appreciate any help anyone could offer


:cry:

dendri