Pain-Triggering and Pain-Safe Foods
Even with drugs, surgery, complementary therapies, and more, facial neuralgia patients often report that they still have pain that is triggered by certain activities, environmental conditions, and...
View ArticleTip Sheet: Neuropathic Face Pain and Trigeminal Neuralgia
All tips are in the patient’s own words. These tips are anecdotal only and are not endorsed by TNA. They are intended for information purposes only, to supplement a visitor’s general knowledge. It is...
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New Research May Reveal Non-Pharmaceutical Solution to TN Pain
New research in the journal Frontiers in Psychiatry points to a potential new option for chronic pain sufferers: the brain’s own natural painkillers. The study built off of previous research that...
View ArticleNeuropathic Facial Pain, Vitamin B-12 & Myelin
If damaged myelin is at the heart of the trigeminal nerve’s short-circuiting pain, then fixing it seems to be a logical goal. Neurosurgeons address this problem by seeking to move a blood vessel away...
View ArticleStriking Back! The Trigeminal Neuralgia and Face Pain Handbook
As a publisher, The Facial Pain Association (formerly The Trigeminal Neuralgia Association) has several books that are essential for the library of a neuropathic facial pain patient, family member or...
View ArticleTrigeminal Neuralgia (TN) and Multiple Sclerosis (MS)
Incidence TN may rarely be the first symptom of MS, but usually does not begin until about 11 years after the onset of MS. When TN is diagnosed in anyone under the age of 40, MS is suspected and should...
View ArticleTip Sheet: Neuropathic Face Pain and Trigeminal Neuralgia
All tips are in the patient’s own words. These tips are anecdotal only and are not endorsed by TNA. They are intended for information purposes only, to supplement a visitor’s general knowledge. It is...
View ArticleVisting the dentist: Tips for Facial Pain Patients
Patients suffering from neuropathic face pain, including TN (Trigeminal Neuralgia) are often concerned that dental procedures will aggravate their facial pain. TN patients who are pain free are at...
View ArticleAtypical Face Pain vs. Atypical Trigeminal Neuralgia
Perplexed by...mixed-symptom cases, doctors began referring to them as 'atypical trigeminal neuralgia.' That term dates back to 1927 when that efinition was given to pains similar to TN that didn't...
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