Roller Coaster From Hell

You know the anticipation you feel as the roller coaster you reluctantly got on begins the ascent to what is about to be shear terror on the other side?

Tick, tick, tick, the track slowly pulls you to the peak.

Upon arrival it seems like the world has come to an end until it plunges you over the side into a chaotic rush of turns, thrusts, jolts, and lunges...

Until finally, it begins to slow down and then......stops.  Until the next time, you get on.

So is the life of a new Trigeminal Neuralgia sufferer.  Slowly the pain comes on.  A little twinge here, a little twinge there.  It might last five seconds and then be gone for ten minutes.

It progresses to 30 seconds long every 5 minutes until it reaches its peak, non-stop pain.  A horrible state a electricity type pain throbbing through every thought and movement.

Shae never new how long this roller coaster ride would last.

A few days

A few weeks

A few months

A few years

Only by God's grace could he have hope that it would end, and soon.

And then the slow decent and final stop where the pain would subside and go into a remission that might last weeks or maybe a few months.

Later in his TN disorder, the pain did not slow down, did not stop, but continued on for four years with very little relief.

Hope - he is well now.  For good.