Hi folks, I haven't posted in quite a while, due to not much change in my symptoms. Thankfully, my "TN" episodes are still very sporadic and far between. I am still somewhat skeptical of my dx, but for lack of any other answer for the ear pain, I will accept it for now. My neuro had set me up for a consultation with his neurosurgeon, but I cancelled because I am no where near the stage of surgical treatment. I thought it was rather wasteful of everyones time and money to send me to a surgeon at this point. Also, I figure by the time I need to see a surgeon for my ear pain that there will be new forms of treatment - we can only hope. The last bad episode I had lasted about 8 hrs, so I took 300 mg of tegritol which is 100mg more than I have taken before. After the last dose, I had terrible night mares continually all night long. My husband travels and it was a miserable night - therefore, I will never again take tegritol when he is away. Is this a common side effect?

Thanks,
Rhonda