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Trigeminal Neuralgia

What are the symptoms?

  • Spasms of sharp, stabbing pain, often described as like a jolt of lightning.
  • The pain is confined in the area served by the branches of the TN nerve: lower jaw, upper jaw, cheek, eye, and forehead. The pain may include one, two or all three branches of the TN nerve.
  • Pain is almost always on one side of the face, most commonly the right-hand side.
  • The pain is usually provoked by a light touch on the face, movements of the face (and therefore mouth), washing the face, a light breeze. Trigger points are usually around the nose and lip.
  • The pain might disappear by itself for weeks, even months, and return.

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Medical text written November 2007 by Professor Joanna Zakrzewska, Professor of Pain in Relation to Oral Medicine and Honorary Consultant in Oral Medicine, Institute of Dentistry, Barts and the London NHS Trust, London, UK.

 

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