There are a number of people of middle age suffering form strong facial pain caused by trigeminal neuralgia. This disorder is one of the most often happening of all neuralgia malfunctions. Patients usually experience acute, stinging pain that comes and goes. Typically, episodes of pain continue up to several minutes.

Spasmodic strong pain that torments people with trigeminal neuralgia influences their ordinary everyday activities including taking meals and sleep. As from day to day they are afraid of unexpected painful episodes, this causes problems with eating, overeating in particular, and sleep disturbance. Among other consequences are irritation, agitation, depression and nutritional disorder.

The facial neuralgia can set in some aftereffects including strong chronic pain and nerve harm. To treat facial neuralgia such medicaments are used as anti-epileptic medicines, depression and anxiety cure, pain relief medications and anti-spamotic medicines. Among strong pain-relieving drugs, analgetics like Tramadol and some nonsteroid antiphlogistic medicines like aspirin are widely used to cure trigeminal neuralgia. Prozac that is one anxiety treatments is applied to cure non-typical forms of neuralgia along with antispasmodics that are the most usual treatment for facial neuralgia for curing typical trigeminal neuralgia pains. Among antispasmodics there are Tegretol, Klonopin, Trileptal and Dilantin.

- The pain originates from one or more branches of the trigeminal nerve that is the main means of transmission of sensitive data form the face to the brain.

* The trigeminal nerve consists of three branches: the ophthalmic, maxillary, and mandibular. The two of them - maxillary and mandibular – may become the source of neuralgia pain.

*Patients usually have pain in the maxillary branch that lies across the zygomatic bone, most of the nose, upper lip and upper teeth. The mandibular branch can also be hurt that touches the lower cheek, lower lip and underjaw.

- In 97% of cases patients feel the pain restricted to one side of their face.

- Most often, physicians do not find any disorder of the facial nerve or the central nervous system.

- Women over 50 are most often touched by the trigeminal neuralgia. People under 30 years have fewer chances to be affected by this disease. If they do, it is almost always connected with harm from central nervous system diseases.