I have been suffering facial and head pain for some time now. I had prickling in my eyes, stabbing sensations and drawing pulling pain in my forehead, face, cheek and upper jaw. I had almost constant pain in the teeth in my upper jaw. All this happens on the left side of my head/face. My eye gets irritated and draughts, heat, light and pressure sets the pain off. Eventually, after being given artificial tears, which did nothing to help at all, I was diagnosed with trigeminal neuralgia. I now take amitriptyline 10mg in the evening and this helps enormously. I am now getting the symptoms recurring and breaking through. I also suffer buzzing and pressure sensations in and around my left ear. Is this the effect of the amitriptyline? I get odd numb sensations in my lips, which come and go. I am concerned that the pain is coming back, that I am not convinced that it is 'just' trigeminal neuralgia, and that I am so tired all the time (I have CFS too). I am also taking sertraline for depression and have had irritable bowel syndrome with pain radiating down my right leg from the abdomen. Are there any other drugs that might solve some of these problems? Should I be worried about the neuralgia and what is causing it?
Thanks,
J