Help!!! Please ... Feeling helpless

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Posting here for traffic.
The past two weeks I have been in intense pain in my head, it feels like it’s burning and it won’t stop. I have seen my gp, my physio and earlier this week was taken to A&E because I passed out in the car (I was a passenger) and was unconscious for 15 minutes - I came too choking on the seatbelt. I have had a head CT and that came back clear my drs have now said they will review my case and see if I need referring to a specialist at the hospital. Now I come to my mistake, I was prescribed amitriptyline and diazepam for the pain, they told me not to mix it with alcohol but I’m in so much pain I can’t sleep, I can’t concentrate, I can’t function. Do tonight I have taken my amitriptyline, 2 diazepam tablets and had 2 spirit drinks. I can feel it working already but now I’m scared, I just wanted to sleep but I already have a low heart rate due to a medical condition and I’m worried. I’m sorry I just needed to tell someone.

Please call 111 and get some advice

Agree you need to call 111, they may even advise 999

Sorry you are feeling so rubbish. The worry over not knowing the reason behind your symptoms must be very hard

Whereabouts in your head is the pain? I have neuralgia in my face and it is disgusting pain. It requires a neurology referral if it is nerve related and it can be treated with anti seizure medication. I hope you are ok right now but I would definitely call 111 for advice.

I hope the specialist finds the cause to the pain In the meantime, as above please call 111 for more advice.

Do you have anyone with you?

Please do seek medical advice

I really hope you have got medical help. Taking diazepam and amitriptyline together with drink is very dangerous.

Hopefully you are okay and be really able to get a diagnosis x

finally not be really

Whereabouts in your head is the pain? I have neuralgia in my face and it is disgusting pain. It requires a neurology referral if it is nerve related and it can be treated with anti seizure medication.

Are you meaning Trigeminal Neuralgia? I have this and it was my first thought on what the OP described.

Are you meaning Trigeminal Neuralgia? I have this and it was my first thought on what the OP described.

I thought this too. DH had it until he had a brain op (MVD). Please get help OP. If it is neuralgia, it's nicknamed the suicide affliction for a reason xxx

Yes I meant TN. I suffer and I've never known pain like it. Hope OP is ok.

Yes I meant TN. I suffer and I've never known pain like it. Hope OP is ok.

I hope so too. It's not the best for sure, it's a wicked thing.

I send hugest if sympathies and well wishes to anyone with TN

@pierce - how long have you had it? Could surgery be an option?

*it depends on the dose. If it was 2mg valium, and 20mg Amitriptyline, it's probably not so bad. 5mg diazepam a bit more. 10mg pills, so 20mg, that would be very concerning.

@winepls surgery isn't an option for me as there's no obvious compression on the nerve. I've had it a few years but touch wood it is controlled by meds. In the early days though the terror of it never going away was enormous and I got that same feeling from the OP.

Hi Everyone, thank you for all your comments. The tablets knocked me out before I could see these, I woke up about an hour ago. Pain is still crippling, currently having a hot bath in the hopes it will help a bit.

Can you describe the pain?

It started a pressure at the base of my skull, and then spread around the back of my head as a shooting pain. Then a week ago I started having burning pain in the same place, I also have slight weakness in my left side and I’m finding it hard to concentrate.

You could Google occipital neuralgia. I'm not a medical professional but it might fit? I still stand by my earlier suggestion to get an urgent neurology referral and an MRI if you haven't already. I hope you are ok. Do you have someone with you?

I know this is not why you posted and I mean this in the least judgmental way possible and will the most love that I can convey through an online forum. If you were explicitly told not to drink alcohol and were explicitly told that it was dangerous, and you still chose to drink spirits, please consider seeking some help. You put your life in danger for a drink and that is not normal (even though a lot of people think that it is).
I hope you get a diagnosis and treatment for your pain but I'm afraid that I have no experience or help to offer there.

@Lockedup with all due respect unless you have personally dealt with this level of pain you have no right to judge. There is a reason people lose their lives to chronic pain conditions and it isn't always as clear cut as 'you were told not to drink but you did'.
Try having lightening bolts of pain shoot through your head from something as little as touching your cheek or smiling. Try rocking yourself wrapped in a blanket all night as you try and self soothe and thinking the only thing that might take the pain away is headbutting a wall.
OP is not describing a headache. They are in severe amounts of pain. The key is getting on to the correct meds and finding out what is causing the pain.

@Lockeduporknockedup

It's not as easy as that, as someone has already pointed out.

I have TN and Rheumatoid Arthritis, not a great combination I can tell you.

I have taken amitriptyline and tramadol washed down with a large glass of wine before to try and do anything to ease the pain. Do I need help? No, it's called coping with pain and sometimes you do whatever it takes, even if it's not the smartest idea.

So, think twice with the armchair "you need help". If you haven't experienced it, you have no idea.

@PierceHawthornesSexDungeon

So well said and described.

@Lockeduporknockedup she didn't drink because she was desperate for alcohol, it was out of desperation to numb the pain.
In severe pain you get to a point when you will try anything.

@Lockeduporknockedup You have nevewre been in severe pain. You are lucky, thank whichever deity or lucky star you have not and stop being judgemental.

OP

This is out of left field but did you take paracetamol for the initial pain?

Headache can be a side effect of paracetamol and there have been cases of people being referred to hospital and passed around.

Obviously your Dr and the hospital staff are the experts.

@sashh I took Ibuprofen then tramadol initially as I take stronger pain killers as I dislocate often. @Lockeduporknockedup as I said in my initial post I just wanted the pain to stop, it’s not a headache or a migrate, it’s worse pain than when I dislocated my hip and shoulder. I actually forgot I wasn’t supposed to drink, i could barely concentrate and my memory has been all over the place since I passed out a few days ago. I do need help but not because I drank but because I need them to figure out why my head feels like it’s on fire, why I’m in so much pain.

These responses are shocking. I made very clear that I wasn't judging OP. Using alcohol as a pain killer is not what alcohol is for. It is not what should be used to kill pain. People saying I've obviously never been in pain, fuck off.
OP chose to do something that risked her life and you're all saying it's healthy and safe behaviour - you are bad people for acting like OP should do the same thing again.
I am expressing ZERO judgement but that it NOT ok behaviour.