Let's talk about pain for a minute

I fucked up the other day. I forgot to take my medicine. It was a busy day full of kids and adventure. I thought about taking my meds a few times but it slipped my mind until after dinner. It was like someone flipped a switch and I went from feeling okay to completely miserable. It took me a day and a half to recover to okay again too! Fuck! Since my injury, I've had ringing in my right ear. So you have an idea of what that's like, it sounds like this . It's at varying volumes and I'm rather used to it now, but I know I'm in trouble when it gets to be more pronounced in my head, and I can FEEL the intensity of the pitch. It's kind of like electricity in my ear and feels like pop rocks. The pop rocks weren't so bad this time. Adding regular sounds on top of all these specatcular sounds is dreadful. This is my warning that my TN is about to get owly. Here's an image of the nerves that cause my pain. While that...