I've decided that I just can't take medication anymore. I've weaned myself off most everything except for a small dosage of oxcarbazapine and I hope to be done with that soon.
My pain has already come back of course but I can't be a zombie anymore. As I've mentioned in earlier posts, I lost my job earlier this year because of brain fog and until the haze clears I don't believe it's possible for me to go back to work. Yes, it's really hard to work around the pain but right now I simply don't know what else to do.
I've never been fired before. I'm 57 years old and losing my job along with the uncertainty of what the TN has in store for me has me pretty much non-functional. I can't really tell if the medication has made me stupid of if I've just gotten stupid with age and have blamed it on the meds. Consequently, until the meds are completely out of my system I don't even know what my baseline is anymore. So, maybe TN has nothing to do with any of this
I have an appointment with my regular neurologist tomorrow and with a neurosurgeon the day after Christmas. I hope that between the doctors they will be able to figure out something but maybe not.
Sorry for sounding like such a bummer but I'm really discouraged.
I hope all of you have a good holiday.