In April 2008, 4 months after my first pain blocks I had a series of really bad attacks. I was back in hospital with my Professor giving me more pain blocks but this time under anesthetic and I was injected in the right side of my face. This gave me a pain free 2 weeks. After 2 weeks the pain was back but still no attacks. In July 2008, 3 months later I was back in hospital, this time the pain blocks were given to me in my face and in my neck in the Trigeminal Nerve. It was given to me Saturday midday and the very next day I was in pain again. The 1st set of pain blocks helped for 4 months, the 2nd set helped 2 weeks and the 3rd set helped 1 day. The Professor said that my body had gotten so used to it that it wasn’t helping anymore. I cried my eyes out in his consultation room that day, I told him that I wanted the surgery done for disease - microvascular decompression because there was no quality to my life anymore, I was missing so much work, I was either in pain or drugged, I couldn’t concentrate well, I couldn’t wake up in the morning for work, I was constantly depressed over my life situation, the medication was making me gain weight and lose hair like no bodies business. He sympathized with me but told me that this was a major op and that before I make that decision he wanted to try different medication on me, he said if it didn’t help me in 2 weeks then I could book for the op, but he begged me to try it. I was grateful for this because I could see that he was one of those Doctors that really wanted to know that they have done everything for their patients.
I got the 2 weeks supply of this new medication which is apparently the new and improved version of Neurontin, It’s called Lyrica. I got a 2 weeks supply of this along with Serequel and Geodan and some other meds that I wasn’t familiar with.
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