Trigeminal neuralgia is a condition that causes pain similar to an electric shock on one side of the face. It affects the trigeminal nerve, which carries signals from the face to the brain.

They say laughter is the best medicine — unless it feels like a lightning bolt to the face. That’s the brutal reality for sufferers of trigeminal neuralgia, a nerve disorder so painful it’s earned a ...

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Trigeminal neuralgia is typically treated with chronic therapy, but patients occasionally require treatment for acute pain. Now, subcutaneous sumatriptan (Imitrex) and intranasal lidocaine have each ...

April 3, 2003 (Honolulu) — A one-hour application of a capsaicin patch placed on an affected area of a patient suffering from postherpetic neuralgia appeared to reduce the pain by at least 33% for up ...

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SAN DIEGO — Intravenous (IV) administration of the anticonvulsant fosphenytoin is effective as a fast-acting treatment for acute trigeminal neuralgia (TN) exacerbation, new research suggested. TN is a ...

Post-herpetic Neuralgia (PHN) is a type of neuropathic pain that develops as a long-term complication of Herpes Zoster (HZ), commonly known as shingles. This study focuses on a 66-year-old man who ...