Neuralgia patients only: What treatment options have you tried for Trigeminal and/or Occipital Neuralgias?
I tried Tegretol XR, Neurontin, Lyrica, and finally microvascular decompression surgery for Trigeminal Neuralgia. I needed two more surgeries last year because the titanium plate they put in my head kept shifting. I then developed Occipital Neuralgia from the other surgeries. I recently had the Occipital nerve severed to take away the pain. I continue to have extreme pain in my eye and I’m told that the first surgery may only work for 3-5 years.
Go to the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Mn. My father had TN and he would get “blocks” (not too much worse than a shot) periodically. They would work for a while (years), but every time he went back they had a newer treatment, that was not that traumatic (nothing like severing the nerve) The side effects were very minor. Also, they are probably cheaper than your local hospital and doctors.
He was treated there for 20 years before he passed away at 93.
P.S. Tegretol and Neurontin can cause lupus type side effects which will report positive for lupus even though you do not have the disease. I thought they were harmful.
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