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Living With The Agony Of Trigeminal Neuralgia

Post a new topicby livingwith on Tue Mar 10, 2009 10:04 am

I was diagnosed with Trigeminal Neuralgia over 5 yrs ago while pregnant with my son. Considering my current condition, there wasn’t much they could do for me for treatment, so I was given an anti-seizure medication called Tegretol. I did not have any other attacks for 3 yrs after that. Then my life drastically changed.
I started having attacks that lasted for days at a time, then weeks at a time and the Tegretol no longer helped. The doctors decided to do Micro vascular Decompression surg...Read the full article
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Re: Living With The Agony Of Trigeminal Neuralgia

Post a new topicby kazz on Tue Sep 08, 2009 2:20 pm

Hello, I wish you luck and wanted to know if you had the cyberknife surgery. I have had TN for a year now and cant imagine my life with this pain any longer. Please let me know what helped you
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