I have had painful headaches and facial pains on the left side for several years now and have been diagnosed with migraine, tension, cluster headache, and finally trigeminal neuralgia. My eye gets irritated, my face aches, I get pain in upper jaw. Amitryptiline for the neuralgia seemed to help, but I thought it was causing weight gain and tinnitus in my left ear, whilst taking it, so I stopped. Recently, the headaches have come back (thought they are always in the background) and the tinnitus - a high-pitched hissing/whine - has become more obvious, though I can tune it out most of the time. All symptoms are confined entirely to the left side. I also have odd pulling and 'numbing' sensations inside one side of my head and on the face from the upper cheek to upper lip and around ear area. The tinnitus seems more obvious when I'm tired or ill (I also have chronic fatigue syndrome to complicates matters).
Last week I had a headache, 4 days out of 7 and had to leave work to go home once, the pain was so distracting. On another day, I had a headache in town, whilst walking around, and I felt odd sensations in my left arm/hand and down the outside of my left leg to the foot. I felt a bit odd walking and my left leg seemed to be weaker as a result. None of this seemed cripling or major, but I don't know if this was connected to the headache or not. I've had the leg thing before and assumed it was sciatica, though in this instance I was not aware of any back discomfort.
Should I be concerned at these symptoms? I don't want to hassle my doc. unecessarily. Jule