>Well I am sorry to hear that and hope you get better. I can sympathise, what with the trapped nerve in my neck which has plagued me since mid-Dec and left me with my left arm essentially useless, feeling like every muscle was being simultaneously punched, my shoulder and neck aching, and I'd banged my funny bone. Getting better now though.
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>My wife had trigeminal neuralgia for ages (imagine the worst constant tooth-ache but in your head), nick-named the suicide disease (and it was she who'd been worried about palsy). For once she wasn't pining for the pureness of the 50s (her favourite decade) when a modern MRI scan revealed a blood vessel strangling the nerve in her brain and modern surgery was able to excise it, and now she's been cured 8 years or so.
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>So I hope you get over it soonest, mate.

Thanks for that. Mine isn't as painful as your wife's was, but it definately has it's moments. It's amazing how quickly stuff can happen, huh? At least I still have my looks... ;-/ <g>