Hi Don,

Welcome, but sorry you are here. Your situation sounds familiar to me, although I wasn't diagnosed for years. I would get the intense pain that presented as tooth abcess and effected the teeth or get the sinus pain without any other symptoms of a sinus infection. I was treated for a lot of sinus infections I didn't have and I have also lost a lot of molars due to pain when they really shouldn't have been reomved. Some anticonvulsants do work really quick and can dull the pain. I have taken neurontin a couple years ago and recall that it did help with the intense pain, although I suspect I was on too low a dose to really know how good it would work. I changed doctors and changed meds and was put on lyrica.

If I were you, I would definately want to see a neurologist, preferably one who has experience with TN. They are best equipped to fix you up with the best meds for the conditon although its sounds as though you got a good Doc and PA who recognized the conditon very quickly. Anyway, check out the TNA website in the stickies. There is a lot of good information in there, and let us know how you get on.

Take care, Ellena