Hello

My name is Antony and I'm 30 years old, I live in England(Great Britain) in a city called Stoke on Trent of about 250,000 people.

I started getting pain in the right side of my head and mainly in my jawline on the 5th of August 2015 and after 2 weeks I went to see my doctor and after a talk and a quick examination she thinks I have trigeminal neuralgia.
I have to wait for more tests for a full diagnosis, I'm getting blood tests on the 24th of August and some more as well.

Anti-Cardiolipin Abs
Blood Picture(includes FBC and Diff)
Coagulation Screen(INR and APTT)
Erythrocyte Sedimentation Rate
Lurpus Anticoagulant
Rheumatoid Factor

My doctor wrote me a prescription for Amitriptyline in the meantime, they are in 10mg tablets but they make me drowsy and give me some nausea.
Ive taken 2 and I'm not going to take anymore until I get the full diagnosis, I know the side effects are supposed to pass after a week or so but ive read that this drug only gives relief in 1 out of 4 people and you have to come off it slowly so id rather wait for the full picture before I start taking them.

My pain started on the 5th of August as I say and I had an attack on the 17th that lasted for 15 minutes, I bared it quite well but it left me shaking.
Since that attack(It's now the 20th of August at time of writing) I have had very little pain with it, I am really hoping I am one of the few lucky cases I have read about.

Well that's me I look forward to talking to people about it but please don't scare me too much the realisation of my situation has hit me quite hard.