Just venting!
I have trigeminal neuralgia but my facial pain is usually well controlled with the gabapentin I take. I have a small amount of breakthrough pain on a daily basis (think toothache and earache, not enough to make me pull up short and say ouch, but annoying and obvious to me) but I can't raise my meds without increasing the side effects that I'm already hacked off with having to put up with.
Only this week I'm having more breakthrough pain. Or rather a higher level of pain than usual.
My annual neuro appt should have been Dec but due to new arrangements it wasn't booked til April, and then it was cancelled on the day as he was ill. I haven't heard back from them for a new date but I'm going to have to chase it up if this pain continues.
It's far and away as bad as the sharp agony of a full attack so prob can't complain and there's v little I can do either (rock and a hard place as far as meds vs side effects are concerned) but it's annoying me.
So I'm moaning on here. No replies expected, just venting. Grrrrr.