Symptoms and treatment of trigeminal neuralgia?

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Trigeminal neuralgia is still a common disease. It has a certain impact on people's body and social life after suffering from it. Therefore, we need to know more about the symptoms of the disease, so as to do a good job in the treatment after suffering from it. The following mainly introduces the symptoms and treatment of trigeminal neuralgia.

Symptoms and treatment of trigeminal neuralgia?

Trigeminal neuralgia symptoms generally occur in one side, and the right side of the disease is more than the left side, the pain is very severe, like a knife cut, tear or acupuncture and other feelings, people feel very intolerable. And generally speaking, the pain begins in the face, or in the mouth and chin, and then spreads around.

And women will be more than men, most of the patients are middle-aged or elderly. Generally speaking, each attack takes a few seconds. When the symptoms are mild, the interval is longer. If the symptoms are serious, they will occur frequently. And generally speaking, some very small facial movements will cause trigeminal neuralgia, such as eating, speaking and other movements, may be the cause of the disease.

In terms of treatment, drug treatment and surgical treatment are mainly used. The most commonly used drug is maccarbazepine, which has a very good effect on pain relief. However, this drug can cause drowsiness or some side effects on digestion. It should be used with great caution and must be used under the guidance of professional doctors.

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Second, phenytoin sodium, as well as some traditional Chinese medicine to adjuvant treatment. There are many ways of surgical treatment, such as trigeminal and semilunar ganglion block, semilunar ganglion percutaneous radiofrequency thermocoagulation and microvascular decompression, etc. according to the patient's senior situation, the most suitable way is selected for treatment.