Zatochi, Your post resonated with me on several levels. I am so glad you had the MVD and are TN pain free. what a blessing!!!!!

But it is disappointing, to put it mildly, how doctors (and dentists) seem to be so inefficient (for lack of a better word) lately.

I have ATN and my MRI was fine; so MVD isn't for me. I am having more and more breakthrough pain and am bedridden with my iPad this moment. It is hard not to be frightened. I fight for my sanity almost daily.

I'm having some oddities with nerve pain in other areas...but nothing even close in degree as the ATN.

I have lupus and Sjögren's syndrome...as well as other AUtoimmune related illnesses. Do you have or suspect any auto immune illness?