Greetings fellow space travellers,

I have been dealing with severe pain for a over a decade now. Been on every anti-depressant and seizure medicine possible. I have recently went outside of my healthcare system and saw a neurosurgeon on my own. The short of it is that I am being diagnosed with geniculate neuralgia.

My neurosurgeon has tried to talk me out of the surgery to fix the problem though. He says that there is a significant risk of having permanent vertigo so severe that I may not be able to walk. Has anyone heard of this? I have been trying to do research online and haven't found any mention of this risk.

He said that he usually only does this surgery when people are ready to commit suicide. Just because I chose to walk into his office instead of jump off his roof doesn't seem like a proper exclussionary criteria for surgery. He is the only one around me for hundreds of miles that even does the surgery.

Any advice?????????