Hi,
I have posted on the Multiple Sclerosis board before but I am new to this one. (I've had MS for about 6 yrs) I was diagnosed with TN a few days ago...I'm nervous about taking the new medication--Trileptal.
I have had migraine headaches for about the last 10 years where there is a headache and it leaks down into my face and covers my cheek and into my top teeth (one side only). These headaches last up to 5 or 6 days. The medication I was given for that would work for a few hours then it would come back. Last week, I started having these pains in my face without the headache..I thought it was really strange, it was pressure on my cheekbone from the edge of my ear to the edge of my nose. Then the headache kicked in and it has lasted for 11 days now. The neurologist says that it sounds like I am dealing with migraines and TN. I have had some short lived pains across my face and the migraine headaches always involved my eye (needling pains in my eye, I really don't know how I have tolerated it all these years).

Right now, it feels like some pressure from my ear to my cheekbone. Almost like tingling, a change in the sensation. I haven't dealt with electric shock pain...Would this be more like pre-TN symptoms? I really think the neuro is right, I just haven't had all the symptoms that goes with TN. Just general facial pain that lasts for days, not seconds or a bunch of times throughout a day.

Did any of you that suffer from this start out this way? Or was it full tilt pain form day one?

Thanks, any insight would be appreciated. I'm just a little scared.
Melissa