I guess the twitching isn't so bad, but it can get pretty annoying. At my next appointment, I'm going to ask about Botox injections. I wanted to try Botox for facial pain, but was told that my insurance wouldn't cover it because I didn't have classic migraines. Maybe they'll do it for twitching.

I have an atypical form of TN with mild to moderate constant pain on both sides that moves around every few minutes. I finally had a high-resolution MRI and was offered surgery because they saw a vein touching my nerve. But when they went in, they found an artery looped around the nerve. The weird thing about the surgery is that it was done on the right, but the left-side pain was almost completely gone after the surgery and the pain on the right is still there.

Tracyh, are you hanging in there? I hope every day of your recovery is a good one.