Knowing about Trigeminal Neuralgia

Trigeminal Neuralgia is a disease which is characterized by the acute pain in the face. The main reason behind the pain is that the veins of the face swell up. In most of the cases the pain is transferred to the whole face including the forehead and cheeks and eyes and lips and mouth. This is an abnormality which has to be controlled from getting into the brain. A person will be in a bad condition if this reaches the brain. Both surgery and medication are the ways to cure the disease. The most important thing in the Trigeminal Neuralgia is a correct diagnosis because most of the doctors think Trigeminal Neuralgia to be either toothache or migraine and the medication for these are obviously very different. Hence it is very important to go to a very good doctor who has knowledge about Trigeminal Neuralgia. 

The disease of Trigeminal Neuralgia is very common in women and less known in men. The problem of Trigeminal Neuralgia is due to nervous disorder but has nothing to do with heredity. It has been seen that out of every fifteen thousand individuals one suffers from Trigeminal Neuralgia. People should not neglect this and must visit a proper doctor for the best diagnosis. If the disease can be diagnosed at the early stage and the problem can be solved through medication the patients need not go for the surgeries also.

Anticonvulsants and antidepressants are the medicines prescribed by the doctors to cure Trigeminal Neuralgia along with other pain killers. The process of treatment of Trigeminal Neuralgia is long and hence the course of the medicine has to be completed in order to get good results for the disease. Most of the patients get cured by the proper medication and correct diagnosis. But there are some very acute cases where the patient needs to go for the surgeries which come for the later stage of the treatment process.

There are many alternative medicines available as far as the treatment process of Trigeminal Neuralgia is concerned. People have got good results with these too.  There are people who have to visit the doctors for surgeries also. These are the people who have a very acute disorder of Trigeminal Neuralgia. Most of the people get cured by just one sitting but the patients who do not have to undergo several surgeries for curing this Trigeminal Neuralgia. The disorder must not be neglected and a treatment process must be carried out at the earliest.

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Causes and symptoms of Trigeminal Neuralgia

One of the twelve cranial head nerves, Trigeminal nerve is the supplier to the upper eye lid and the lower chin. A disorder of this nerve supply causes facial pain and headache, the symptoms of which are classified as Trigeminal Neuralgia.  The nerve disorder is also known as tic douloureux.

Causes of Trigeminal Neuralgia

Although no clear cut reasons for the symptoms of nerve disorder have been suggested but physicians suggest the following possible reasons.

1. Physicians are of the belief that the symptoms of the nerve disorder start to appear when the nerves passing through the openings of the skulls to the face, get subjected to shocking changes. This causes demyelination of the nerve cell. Demyelination is the term used to describe the compression of the cell as a result of loss of conductive coating over the cells. This exposes the nerve fibres to irritation or pain as a result of compression by other larger nerves or blood vessels.
2. Biochemical changes in the nerve cells might also be the cause of pain and facial nerve disorder.
3. Doctors also suggest that the facial nerves get compressed by an abnormally sized blood vessel. This causes damage of the nerve cells leading to pain and some times inflammation.
4. Clinical tests conducted at the period of extreme pain suggest that the Trigeminal Neuralgia symptoms are caused when the inner nerve fibres of the cranial nerve, called axon, gets damaged due to trauma or shock.

Symptoms of Trigeminal Neuralgia

The syndrome of Trigeminal Neuralgia can be identified by the following symptoms.

1. The syndrome has small trigger zones on the face, like the cheek, nose and the lip that when stimulated causes a typical explosion of pain. This trigger might be caused due to any of he following stimulations-
1. A slight touch to the trigger zone.
2. Eating and chewing processes also subject the nerve to trigger off pain.
3. Common routine activities like washing face, brushing, talking etc.
4. Adverse weather conditions like windy and cold weather or very hot weather with loo hitting the face.
2. The syndrome has several related health implications. For example the short burst of pain makes people stop taking food and this leads to malnutrition, weight loss and dehydration.
3. The bursts of pain become unbearable but in the periods between the pain, patients remain pain free. A slight continuous aching has however been reported by many patients.

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