Just got back from seeing the nurse practitioner. I hate that I have to pay the same to see her as seeing the doctor. She agreed with me that it is more than likely TN. So I am to increae my Tegretol to 4/day. Because it is such a neuralgia type pain she said there is an outside possibility that it could be shingles. So I need to watch out for that. She said I could start on medicine but I said I would prefer to treat it as TN for now. I just hate the drunk feeling I will be feeling for several days.