Since I was diagnosed in August, I have been going weekly for freezing shots in the head, at the base of my skull. It started out she would do it once a month but it wasn't near enough. I only get 5-7 days worth of relief. Now I go weekly.

I am scheduled for a rhyzotomy on the 17th. I am also taking hodromorphine if I have pain and she's put me on magnesium 3x a day, which can help with nerve pain.

So we'll see if this proceedure helps. I am also booked on Jan. 12th for a lidocaine drip. You have to have the first one under close supervision and monitoring. If it goes well, then you can come in when you need one and get the lido IV inserted and go right home. There is a small line that goes into a vein and then the little lido bottle gets taped to your arm. The lido drip takes 10 hours, then you ca just pull it out yourself. This would be way better than getting a shot in the head every week!

Maybe if you get to see the headache specialist you can get properly sorted out? I know it took some time for the docs to get mine diagnosed because I was on some icky MS meds that have headaches as a side effect and at first everyone thought that was the problem. The other thing was that people kept thinking it was a regular migraine and it wasn't. A pain or headache specialist should be able to figure it out. Let's hope so!