Doodlebug ( I love that screen name, BTW ),

I have had gamma knife x2, glycerol injection, balloon compression, blah, blah, blah....it kept coming back.....until this last gamma knife.

Now it is a permanent numbness and crawly feeling, and a constant achy, burning pain that sometimes escalates into a stinging (like a teeming layer of fire ants under my skin). My tongue is numb on the one side and feels swollen and itchy, and I have almost constant canker sores from where the back teeth bite or rub on the tongue in that spot and, because of the numbness, I don't feel it happening until an ulcer has developed. I have a ring of numbness around my eye that feels like I have a hair or bug or something crawling on it, and every so often the upper eyelid droops.

I am like you, though, in that I'd take this over the constant fear of being struck in the face by lightening without warning....

Take care!!