Thank you for all your kind replies And sorry to hear that you all are suffering too.

I have some more news, but as you'll see its just left me more

I went to my GP on Monday, explained my symptoms like in my post here, he pressed around my cheek/jawbone (and made it hurt more), first he said it might be toothache but I said no, my teeth aren't hurting, its my cheekbone area that hurts. He then said I needed a blood test to make sure there is no inflammation. I asked him what is causing the pain and he says "there is something that can go wrong with your nerve but that would give you excruciating pain".

I thought to myself "if feeling like I'm being stabbed with an ice-cold knife isn't excruciating then I don't know what is" but by this point I was too tired and sore to question him more (it hurts if I talk a lot).

So, I had my blood test, and got a prescription for painkillers. I got home, took one painkiller tablet (Naproxen) and within an hour I was back at the surgery needing a nebulizer - the tablet had reacted with my asthma.

As you can see I had a very traumatic day I spent the rest of the day trying to sleep, but I got a new pain, this time it felt like I was being stabbed right through my ear. The pain happened 3 or 4 times in succession, each time strong enough to make me cry out loud and jerk my head, it was that intense.

Now I am waiting for result of blood test. Can blood test show TN ?

Meanwhile the pain is same as it was before (I am now on co-codamol as this is the safest for my asthma apparently). It hurts most of the time to some extent, a strong but dull pain, but every now and again I get stronger, sharp, stabbing pains on my cheekbone / in front of my ear, these are intermittent and last for maybe 30 seconds / up to a minute, they make me tense up because I don't know when there's going to be another one.

Another strange thing is, sometimes I feel itchy / kind of hot over my cheekbone and it makes me want to scratch it, but there's nothing there to make it itch. And I still get the 'twinges' across my cheekbone, I find it hard to explain what they're like. They don't hurt, they just feel like a 'blip' I suppose.

Sorry for long post and questions, I'm just really confused right now.