Hi, I'm doing trileptal for trigeminal neuralgia, currently up to 1800/day, will be going up to 2100 shortly. Maybe a little confusion / tiredness, and it hasn't entirely relieved the pain, but anything that helps is good... tried gabapentin at first and it didn't seem to do anything, or at least enough. I've been fighting with this stuff for 2 1/2 years now, believe it was set off by an exam following a root canal in a left side molar.

Just took a 900 evening dose about half an hour ago, and it seems like it started helping in about half an hour, but we'll see. O thoml a typical dose works for maybe 8-10 hours, and there are periods (up to a couple months) where the pain goes away altogether. The Mrs. has become pretty frustrated with this going on for so long, and we're about ready to find out what comes next after pills and try that. Most frustrating thing about this whole neuralgia business is that my pain doctor doesn't do anything dental (even though he's a DDS), my dentist keeps sending me to endodontists, and I wind up going to all sorts of different doctors... apparently even my dentist doesn't do extractions anymore, there's a whole separate doctor for that.

Anyway, I seem to be tolerating the 1500-1800 doses okay, I'm also doing tramadol (pain medication) sometimes, haven't quite figured out if that's helping or not.

Charles16