I Have Trigeminal Neuralgia

I do not have TN but I am affected by it because my father has it. It has caused me and my family great stress. Not only from seeing my dad in pain. But because he is also a diabetic.

The pain hasn't been so bad until a week ago. He...

Hi, about a year ago a started feeling some weird electric shocks on the left side of my face, mostly everytime i was going to use a towel to dry my face after a bath or in the morning after washing my face. Just recently, the electric...

In February of this year I started having very bad pain in my mouth. Over these last 10 months I now have it in my eye, nose, ear, jaw and mouth. I think what BOTHERS me the most is people who don't have it, think you can handle this...

My experience originally started with a routine dental cleaning. The hygienist chipped a tooth while cleaning and the dentist said that i would need to come back to have that taken care of. He said it wasn't a bad chip and that i didn't...

Went to the Dentist in 1990 and had a root canal.  Horrible throbbing pain after few hours.  Returned to Dentist by way of husband at 12:00 midnight. 
Said nothing looked wrong.  Kept calling my Dentist several...

My story is similar to so many I have read:  my first occurrence was in 1996 or 1997 when I was in my early twenties, after two root canals and one extraction of a wisdom tooth that was so close to a nerve that my dentist insisted an...

Hi there, I don't know if this is going to help anyone, but I had TN for 12 years!!! And 4 years ago had a final and must add...'successful' operation at The Walton Neurology Centre, in Fazakerley, Liverpool UK... No more pain thank God...

I developed TGN 13 years ago - and after a series of dental misadventures - I was at my wit's end - and had already selected a tree to crash the car into !(and was developing serious drug reactions to tegreto and panadol).However - in a...

I was diagnosed in in 2008 but i've suffered since 2005. Then in 2011 I started feeling pain pn the left side as well. On 4/2 I had mvd for my right side. I'm currently recovering hoping it worked....I still take meds for my left side...

i was diagnosed in 2006 with this dreaded disease. I am luck for i do have periods of time when i really don't hurt too much.  But today the pain is intense and i just want to lay down and cry
I can't tolerate the meds.. tegretol and...

I was diagnosed with TN in 2006, although I actually started having symptoms in 2003. I have gone through two Microvascular Decompressions (both unsuccessful) and a Gamma Knife (successful!). Its been almost 4 years since the gamma...

I have had trigominal neuralgia for almost 4 years now. The pain starts when I woke up in the morning and stops when I fell asleep at night. I can't take medicine it makes me drowsy and doesn't work with my line of work. The best advice...

I'm 22 yrs old I first started noticing pain my freshman year of high school on both sides of my face one day it was so bad it lasted the whole day it was on and off for years and now it came back I did an MRI and nothing showed up I...

I have this Trigeminal for about 1 year now.. I had Tregetol for medication. I was wondering does anyone know what kind of food do we have to avoid since we have this painful desease.. Can it be cure.. Do i have to hv this painful thing...

i am 34 and am in some real pain just now,have been for about a month this time.As i type this with one hand i am clutching the side of my head and pressing so hard because of the pain. I think i have had TN since i was a teenager as i...

I am a 39 year old married woman who had been diagnosed with Trigeminal Neuralgia in 2003 at 29 years old. However, I believe I had TN 10 years prior to that and didnt know it. I had sharp pains that originated from my teeth,I had sharp...

I used to feel like such a freak. Like I catch all the weirdest conditions. It's comforting to know that it's not that unusual, that I'm not alone.
I was first diagnosed with it in middle school. I was twelve or thirteen. I remember it...

i have had tn for 4 years now since i was 21, its got to the point where i am in constant pain all the time, right at this moment i haven't slept for 4 days. i am getting so down coz i am a single mum and i literally cannot function...

I was 22 when I was told I had TN. I suffered pain that made me come close to ending my life at times. I couldn't work. My marrige broke down. I felt I had nothing. For 13 years I existed, but didn't live. Then it just stopped. Well...