I had a head injury on the right side of my head in the hairline area over 5 years ago. I've seen a few doctors for the severe pain I get in the injured area on my head. Doctors say I have permanent nerve damage to the trigeminal nerve. The injured area is numb, but gives me such severe shooting pain. The doctors are not agreeing that the same branch area of the nerve is damaged. My symptoms are all on my right side. They start from the injured area with a sharp shooting pain and goes down my right cheek with a tingling, pins and needle sensation that goes down to the corner of my mouth. I have a slipped disk in my neck from the injury also. I am on medicine to try and stop the pain from happening but it isn't always working. I'm still trying new things to help the pain. One option was Botox.

I have experienced trigeminal neuralgia beginning with unexplainable back molar pain, only on the right side of my face for 15 years. It has grown into swelling at the right base of my neck, tender to the touch during an attack and severe strikes of pain, around my eye, my jaw, my temple and a few times, in my right eye. I can feel like I will "pass out" for a moment. My treatment is NOT to use drugs with side effects. Apply cold immediately to your trigeminal neck area. Lie down. Deep breathing seems to increase oxygen intake and help as well.

I have been having a burning between one side of my nose and cheek area. Sometimes, I also have pain in the temple area. Teeth ache at times. This has been going on for a couple of months now. I went to my doctor a couple of days ago and she told me it was facial neuralgia. No tests were done and no medications were given. The burning was happening a few times a day for short intervals but is just now happening for a better part of the day and lasts longer and longer.

I remember the pain like it was yesterday, as nothing compares to the pain stabbing through my eye into my head. The pain was so severe that I became irrational. Treatment was for trigeminal neuralgia and encephalitis. While in the hospital, the illness led to shingles on my lower abdomen and hips, which still recur several times a year.

Typically, my symptoms are severe tooth ache, earache, blurred vision, nausea, severe headache, pain in the glands around my neck which is very sore to the touch and pain in the back of my neck. I have been a sufferer for around 27 years. It has been suggested by a specialist at a pain management clinic I have attended that the cause of my TGN is nerve damage from past dental treatment.

I am 44 yrs old and I have been diagnosed with multiple sclerosis about 6 months ago. About 2 months ago I experienced these horrible shocking pains in my face. Never in my life would I have known such pain if someone explained it to me. My neurologist knew straight away it was trigeminal neuralgia so she put me on Gabapentin capsules.

I am a 59 year old female. I noticed what seemed to be nerve pain in my left cheek a few years ago and then the pain seemed to travel down the side of my face until it finally disappeared. During this time it is very painful, but not unbearable, where even 1 hair brushing up against the cheek causes pain. I take ibuprofen and eventually it goes away. I seem to be experiencing this 2 to 3 times per year.

I experienced a sharp stab of pain above my ear on the right side of my face, completely out of the blue. I cannot pinpoint a specific area that is sensitive to touch, but it is very painful when I open my mouth widely (top of the jawbone) or move my jaw to the left. I also experience earache of varying intensities, especially at night when lying down. Sleep deprivation has become an unwelcome visitor. My GP has diagnosed the condition as neuralgia for now and administered a cortisone injection which did bring some relief. She also advised me to continue applying arnica oil to the. I seem to fit the profile as I'm a female in my early 60s with a history of myasthenia gravis. I live in hope that the neuralgia will disappear as quickly as it came.