Quote:
Originally Posted by canagirl
Well that's good to hear that it actually reduced the number of twitches. All in all in took about a year to get 90% relief... oh my! How long were you on it before you noticed that your twitches started to reduce?
|
I've been on gabapentin since Feb 2014. The twitching didn't start to settle down until Oct/Nov 2014. Now I can say I hardly twitch at all. One twitch here and one twitch there. I'll take it.
I added nortriptyline in April or May 2014. I stopped it for several weeks this winter - specifically prior to my ENT appointment (it can mess up the ENTs testing). Then I decided to put it back in because I had felt significantly worse. My pain has been somewhat manageable and I have been very functional at work. I still get burning, facial pain, dizziness, tingling, the feeling the someone is gripping my spine or pushing a window screen into my back.....but all these symptoms are better controlled with my medication combo. And I can now be rational about what steps I'm going to take next to figure out what the heck is going on with my body.