Sorry, but the TN club is one I really don't want to join...(duh) but my internet searches on symptoms keep circling that diagnosis.

About 3 weeks ago I noticed that I have a spot (about the size of a lemon) on my scalp that is very tender...like a sunburn (hurts if my hair moves) and it's on my left upper side..right where my crown is (where the hair is swirly--ya know?). This scalp tenderness came and went for a couple days and then stayed.

About a week later I noticed electric shock zaps--super fast pow that hurt enough to make me jump a little (but were gone so quickly it was more tiring and irritating than really debilitating). I can't even tell where they "start" but then end up in my ear..ouch. This went on for a couple days...I'd have maybe 20 or 30 "zaps" per day--sort of clustered...but I couldn't tell anything is triggering them.

Then it got better for a couple days (even scalp area although still tender felt maybe less tender) and then back for a day and then gone then back etc...

I have an appt with an ENT next week to check for weird ear/sinus/tmj trouble...whatever (although I have no pain with opening my jaw no popping to pain to the touch at my left tmj area).

I have had no face pain...although sometimes i think I can feel a tingling on that side of my face...but I'm just about convinced that is because I am highly suggestible and am freakin' out a little about this.

I can't get in to see a neurologist until the middle of next month and the way this is going it might be so mild by then I'm going to feel dumb going to see someone.

As of now I would say the scalp pain/tenderness has stayed the same (in the same place--always sensitive but some times more than other) but the zaps seem less intense...I'm not jumping really now..although I feel them and they're not comfortable.

Anyway, I'm finding myself a little freaked out that this might be early TN... I just turned 50 a few weeks ago if that's relevant. I don't like to be sick and I don't like to see doctors and I've been one of those blessed healthy people for the most part...right now I'm wishing I'd never even looked up my symptoms. Hell, the first website I looked at called this the "suicide disease" *edit* No wonder I'm freaked out.

So...this doesn't sound like TN...right?

thanks
m