Gerwyn Tumelty, 52, from Swansea, Wales, has lived with Trigeminal Neuralgia since 2017 and describes the excruciating facial pain as like being hit with an ice pick ...

According to charity Trigeminal Neuralgia Association UK, it is 'the most painful condition that is known in the medical world'. It can often be misdiagnosed as toothache, while these excruciating ...

Imagine a kiss on the cheek, a bite into a strawberry or a breeze on your forehead causing sudden, excruciating, electrical shock-like pain to one side of your face. That agonizing stab of pain may be ...

Miss Payel Bhattacharya, was diagnosed with a rare disease von Hippel-Lindau or VHL. It is a genetic form of cancer. VHL patients battle a series of tumors throughout their life. VHL may occur in up ...

For 14 years, Lora Romney has had a burning sensation on the top half of her face. The feeling, she says, is similar to a ...

Trigeminal neuralgia (TN) is reputed to be one of the most painful conditions in human experience. Thus, many treatments, both medical and surgical, have been developed for this relapsing and ...

Editor’s Note: This story originally ran in October 2013. We resurfaced the story for the second Trigeminal Neuralgia Awareness Day, which is on October 7. Imagine shocks radiating across your cheek, ...

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 ...

In 2011, just a few days before the release of the movie Bodyguard, Salman Khan had undergone surgery in the US. Khan was suffering from a neurological condition called trigeminal neuralgia, which was ...

Expert Rev Neurother. 2007;7(11):1565-1579. Intraoral TN can be easily confused initially with dental pain. Unnecessary extraction of healthy teeth can be avoided by obtaining dental radiograms and ...