I have no idea what is going on other than the bicycle accident was in July 2008 and this "itch" these electric jolts as if someone were sticking pins into my head and not "ice pick" headaches as one of the doctors I've seen is convinced and will not budge from her diagnosis and her conviction that I should be able to take nortriptyline "if you give your body the chance it will adjust to any and every medication" I know how I feel taking nortriptyline, and I have gamely tried to increase the dosage and my body just doesn't tolerate it.....
Dermatologists say it's not skin related...and neurologists don't seem to care enough to find out just what is going on.........
I'm going back to sleep...
thanks to all of you who have expressed concern...

I am sorry you are so discouraged. Our Peripheral Neuropathy forum is very familiar with medical failure in helping nerve pain.
I am usually over at our PN forum, and we have learned many interventions that doctors will not offer to patients.

Your Tegretol is contributing to your fatigue, so it is understandable that you are fed up and tired.

If and when you feel like it, you are welcome to our PN forum and subforum, to learn what we have learned over the years.
We have learned to be our own medical detectives.

http://neurotalk.psychcentral.com/forum20.html
http://neurotalk.psychcentral.com/forum119.html

help...i lost my most recent post and can't find it!!

Try here:
http://neurotalk.psychcentral.com/post1031180-15.html

If you click on your name you will find your profile.
You can click on the name in the upper right hand corner where it says "welcome".

In your profile is a tab "statistics"... and click on that and all your
posts up to 500 will be listed.