Hi all,

If someone has been on Carbamazepine for about a week, would it be normal for them to still have trigger points?

The reason I ask is my wife's severe pain was teeth/jaw/sinus and sometimes ear, but was fairly constant. No one could find a cause so they said TN and gave carbamazepine and antiboitics for a sinus infection. One, or both of those, seemed to take the constant pain away and gradually it became localized to a single tooth that hurts when biting down (biting fairly hard, not just a gentle touch).

I was suspicious that it wasnt Carbamazepine doing anything and that an underlying infection or the process of a tooth dying have just run their natural progression and there is now a clear suspect tooth.

My question is, if it were nerve related, would the carbamazepine deal with the trigger point? Today a dentist did a cold test on the suspect tooth and one side of the tooth does not have feeling and the other side when touched with the ice produced an excrutiating pain. The dentist feels very strongly that the pain was dental in origin all along. I am just not sure if I buy it, but if the carbamazepine was working and would deal with nerve pain, perhaps this is truely dental. Thoughts?

Please, if you can, respond quickly! She is having a root canal on Monday, and regardless the dentists all believe that tooth is suspect for other reasons, not just the pain symptoms so she might as well have it delt with in a quest to relieve the discomfort.