Here I am, another sleepless night. I like to blame it on all of the anti-convulsants I am on for my trigeminal neuralgia. A facial pain disorder which started about six months ago. The pain is so bad that at times I end up in the ER begging for pain relief. My face hurts so bad that I can't function. This is the newest ailment in my bag of conditions. It all started with endometriosis when I was a teenager then, osteoarthritis, celiac disease and fibromyalgia. Then right after I got married, at age 30 I developed thyroid cancer. At the same time I found out I had hashimotos thyroiditis, an autoimmune disease destroying my thyroid. I had my thyroid removed and went through radioactive iodine treatment. That was a couple years ago and my scans for the disease have been clean ever since. I struggle everyday with pain from the arthritis, the fibromyalgia and the trigeminal neuralgia. I have to keep gluten out of my diet for the celiac disease and still have a lot of bowel … [Read more...]