#i feel like i went to the er and came out like congrats you've acquired a new chronic pain :)

[adhdvane]

so i went to the er yesterday morning (?? it was like 5 am yesterday so i guess it counts as yesterday and not 2 days ago). i was in extreme pain on the left side of my face around my jaw and ear and stuff. honestly the first time i’ve ever been in such excruciating pain that i was sobbing holding back screaming (it started around 2:30 am). :) was diagnosed with trigeminal neuralgia and given seizure medication bc that’s what they treat it with to help nerve pain. now i need to make an appointment with a neurologist. (i did get a ct scan at the hospital to make sure they could rule out something wrong with my sinuses or an abscess in my gums, which my mom was worried about, but the doctor doubted because if that was the problem it shouldn’t be causes pain on both the upper and lower jaw, and it was very unlikely that i suddenly had two of them pop up at the same time and cause pain in both places, thankfully the ct scan showed there wasn’t any.) it’s apparently uncommon for someone as young as me to experience this :) so far it’s mostly working (the pain that started at 2:30 finally subsided around 9 am yesterday). though it hurt like hell last night for a while (before sort of subsiding and i passed out some time around 3 or something idk i know i took stuff at 5 am and passed out again but woke up in pain again at 7 am and took stuff pain killers (bc i was told to take those too) and passed out again and woke up around 11 am not in pain?? and im okay now. i mean at least i was able to sleep and took the meds and pain killers at 1 bc im supposed to do it every 8 hours. it was weird but like previously i hadn’t slept all night to i passed out that day at like 9 am and slept til 4 so my sleep was messed up.). i can’t lay on my left side at all. i didn’t take my adhd meds yesterday so i could sleep bc i got zero sleep the night before because of the pain. so i’m back on them today so i feel a little weird. i just need to get this shit under control so i can go back to work.