What does trigeminal neuralgia look like?

The symptoms of trigeminal neuralgia are as follows.

Typical symptoms: characterized by severe pain in the distribution of the trigeminal nerve in the face.

Common symptoms: Electrocautery, pinprick, knife-cut, or tearing pain on the affected side of the face. Pain generally does not extend beyond the midline.

Each attack can last from a few seconds to 1-2 minutes and then stop suddenly, during which the condition may gradually worsen as usual, and the pain attacks become more frequent, even once every few minutes, so that it does not stop all day long. Touching a part of the patient's face** can induce pain, and in severe cases, patients are afraid to wash their face, brush their teeth, or even chew.

1. Pain location: mainly located in the face, the pain range does not exceed the distribution area of the trigeminal nerve;

2. Nature of pain: such as acupuncture, electric shock, unbearable severe pain, or even unbearable pain;

3. Pain regularity: it occurs suddenly, and each pain attack lasts only a few seconds before it can be relieved by itself; Drinking water, eating, touching lightly, and blowing the wind can trigger pain attacks;

4. The 1st and 2nd branches of the trigeminal nerve are sensory branches, mainly pain, and the third branch can innervate part of the movement of the masticatory muscles, and the trigeminal neuralgia can lead to masticatory weakness when it is severe.

Hello, (l) Pain attacks are often unforeseen and are sudden, short-lived, and intense pains.

2) The nature of pain is varied, and it can be tearing, electrocautery, knife cutting or acupuncture.

3) Patients have a special painful expression when the pain occurs, often rubbing the affected side of the face with the palm of the hand or a towel in order to reduce the pain, and some of them continue to chew during the attack, and the severe attack is often accompanied by reflex twitching of the facial muscles, the corners of the mouth are pulled to one side, and there are symptoms such as facial redness, hyperemia of the conjunctiva, tearing, and salivation.

4) Each seizure lasts from a few seconds to one or two minutes and then stops abruptly.

5) Pain often begins in a branch of the trigeminal nerve and gradually expands. If the pain originates from the infraorbital nerve, it radiates downward to the eye, nasal wings, and upper lip; When it originates from the second branch of the trigeminal nerve, it radiates to the lower face, lower lip, and frontal region; When it originates from the supraorbital nerve, it radiates to the ipsilateral frontal and superior risky regions. In a few cases, the pain spreads to the three branches of the trigeminal nerve, sometimes even to the opposite side.

6) There is no pain in the intermittent period, and it can recur after a period of time. At the beginning of the disease, the number of attacks is small, and the intermittent period is longer, but most of the disease gradually worsens, and the pain attacks become more and more intense, and the intermittent period becomes shorter and shorter, so that it does not stop all day long.

7) The course of the disease can be cyclical, and each episode can last for weeks or months. It rarely heals on its own.

8) Some cases are related to climate, and there are more cases in winter and spring.

Patients with trigeminal neuralgia generally have symptoms such as headache, dizziness, facial convulsions, and facial atrophy. And when the pain is uncomfortable, some people like to bite their teeth, but it still hurts, and when they speak, this symptom will be intense. If your symptoms are severe, you may need to take pain medication as prescribed**.

Trigeminal neuralgia is the most common cranial nerve disease, with paroxysmal severe pain in the distribution area of the trigeminal nerve on one side as the main manifestation, with a domestic incidence of 10,000 people, slightly more women than men, and the incidence rate can increase with age. Trigeminal neuralgia is more common in middle-aged and elderly people, and is more common on the right side than on the left side. The characteristics of the disease are:

Within the distribution of the trigeminal nerve in the head and face, the onset is sudden, with sudden arrest, lightning, cut-like, burning, intractable, and unbearable severe pain. Talking, washing your face, brushing your teeth, or a gentle breeze on your face, or even walking can cause paroxysmal severe pain. The pain lasts for seconds or minutes, and the pain occurs in periodic periods, with intervals similar to normal.

My father is trigeminal neuralgia, this pain can be said to be indescribable, he can't eat, drink, talk badly, it hurts even to open his mouth, my son's heart hurts, this pain hurts like hitting a bamboo stick into his fingernails, lightning hurts thousands of times a day, and I know how you feel now

Causes of trigeminal neuralgia:

1.Secondary trigeminal neuralgia: Pain caused by compression by various types of diseases or tumors is called secondary trigeminal neuralgia.

2.Primary trigeminal neuralgia: Primary trigeminal neuralgia is the pain that cannot be found due to the compression of blood vessels, arteriosclerosis, etc.

3.Shingles infection or other viral infections can also cause some pain.

Trigeminal neuralgia is characterized by radiating, paroxysmal pain on one side of the face, which usually occurs from a few seconds to a few minutes. The main cause of trigeminal neuralgia is intracranial compression of the trigeminal nerve by blood vessels, which accounts for about 80%-90% of all patients. Other causes include venous compression, arachnoid adhesions, trigeminal neuritis, and viral infections, all of which can cause trigeminal neuralgia.

There is also stroke, which is a cerebral infarction that can also cause facial pain.

You can take Chinese medicine to recuperate.

Trigeminal neuralgia is a condition in which the trigeminal nerve is demyelinated, and patients experience lightning, lightning-like strikes in the trigeminal innervation area. Severe pain like fire, the pain is paroxysmal, and the pain has a trigger point, the trigger point is generally at the tip of the nose, the wings of the nose, the mouth, the tongue and other parts, as long as the trigger point is touched, it will cause severe pain, so the patient does not dare to wash his face, dare not eat, very embarrassed.

The main symptom of trigeminal neuralgia is pain, which occurs mostly on the side of the head and face, mostly on the right side. The essence of pain usually manifests itself as needle-like, knife-like, teardrop-shaped pain, the common feature of which is unbearable pain. The pain is paroxysmal or transient.

The pain lasts for a few seconds, tens of seconds, or 1-2 minutes and can reach hundreds or even hundreds of times a day. The pain cycle has a period of relative remission. The longer the pain lasts, the more severe the pain will be, and the cycle will gradually shorten, seriously affecting the quality of life.