Im currently in a hotel, halfway through a weeks hiking holiday. I have terrible face pain. I can't sleep for it. Analgesics do nothing. I don't think it's dental as I've had this pain before, though nothing like it is today and the dentist when I saw him before thought it was a sort of nerve pain. That ties in with paracetamol and ibuprofen not easing it as apparently they don't work on nerve pain? I've had both today with no affect.
The pain is on one side of my face. It can intensify and reach down my neck or go into that side of my tongue or ears. Then, just as easily, it can lessen. No obvious reason why it intensifies or lessens.
Dh is with me. He said just try to sleep when it lessens, and i did nod off for 20 mins or so but his snoring woke me! He usually uses a CPAP machine but this room does not have a socket next to the bed so he can't use it tonight.
I am going out of my head with the pain and the inability to sleep. We hiked over 15 miles today and I need to sleep! Is there anything else I can try for this pain? Does anyone else recognise what it might be?
Sorry if I have rambled. Im so tired and so much in pain.