- neuralgia involving one or more of the branches of the trigeminal nerves, and often causing severe pain.
An estimated 1 in 15,000 people have trigeminal neuralgia, also known as tic douloureux. It is usually experienced as a severe, stabbing pain to one side of the face, in the eyes, lips, nose, scalp, forehead, jaw or cheek. The pain lasts from a few seconds to a minute or two. Episodes can continue for days, weeks or months, and then disappear for months or years. While the condition is not life-threatening, it is described as among the most painful conditions known, and attacks or fear of attack can be extremely debilitating. - Trigeminal neuralgia occurs most often in people over 50, and more often in women. It may be associated with other disorders, such as multiple sclerosis. The head or face pain is presumed to be caused by a blood vessel pressing the trigeminal nerve as it exits the brainstem. Due to an inherited pattern of blood vessel formation, the condition may run in families.
Sign & Symptoms of
Trigeminal neuralgia causes severe, piercing pain (tearing, darting, or sharp cutting sensation) that lasts from several seconds to several minutes.Painful episodes may recur in days, weeks, or months, and periods of remission may grow shorter as you age.
The pain can be excruciating and may be felt in any part of the lower portion of the face - usually in the cheek area near the nose or in the jaw area. Pain may also be felt in the lips, gums, cheek, chin, and sometimes forehead. The pain is usually felt only on one side of the face.
Pain can occur spontaneously or may be set off by touching a particular spot (trigger point) or even by smiling, talking, blowing the nose, brushing the teeth, or chewing.
Although the pain may be incapacitating, it's not life threatening. For some people, the pain is totally incapacitating, recurring as often as 100 times a day. When the pain is triggered by eating, people often lose weight because they are afraid to eat. The pain can be severe enough to wake people from sleep.
Symptoms of trigeminal neuralgia include an acute onset of sharp, stabbing pain to one side of the face. It tends to begin at the angle of the jaw and radiate along the junction lines; between the ophthalmic branch and maxillary branch or the maxillary branch and the mandibular branch.
More Sign & Symptoms:Trigeminal neuralgia symptoms may include one or more of these patterns:
- Occasional twinges of mild pain
- Episodes of severe, shooting or jabbing pain that may feel like an electric shock
- Spontaneous attacks of pain or attacks triggered by things such as touching the face, chewing, speaking and brushing teeth
- Bouts of pain lasting from a few seconds to several seconds
- Episodes of several attacks lasting days, weeks, months or longer — some people have periods when they experience no pain
- Pain in areas supplied by the trigeminal nerve, including the cheek, jaw, teeth, gums, lips, or less often the eye and forehead
- Pain affecting one side of your face at a time
- Pain focused in one spot or spread in a wider pattern
- Attacks becoming more frequent and intense over time. Treatment Of Trigeminal Neuralgia
- Adults Cap Neurotrig (1Cap TDS)
- Children Syp Neurotrig (2Teasponful TDS)
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