This fall I switched from Lithium to Tegretol. Lithium was depressing and made me gain weight which was even more depressing. But that's not the main reason I switched to Tegretol.
This summer I discovered a new chronic illness to add to my repertoire, as if I needed more. This one is called Trigeminal Neuralgia, and mine was triggered by getting a shot of novocaine and having two fillings replaced. It is treated with Tegretol until eventually that no longer works, then you just want to kill yourself even if you have no mental health issue.
The pain is like an ice cream headache in one whole half of the face. I have pain everywhere that the novocaine effected, and the pain started in earnest when the original numbness wore off. The shot hurt like hell in the first place, but since I'd not had a shot like that before, I didn't realize that was not supposed to happen. There are very few days, and by that I mean one or two days in...
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bipolar, dental work, medication, migraines, mood stabilizers, pain, trigeminal neuralgia
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