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Trigeminal Neuralgia*

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Hi Jenn @jennheadlee, Welcome to Mayo Clinic Connect. There is another discussion for Trigeminal Neuralgia where your post will receive more visibility and you will be able to meet other members discussing the condtion. I'm tagging our moderator @lisalucier to see if we should move your discussion into the following discussion. While we wait you may want to read through the discussion and meet some of the other members.

Groups > Brain & Nervous System > Trigeminal Neuralgia*
-- https://connect.mayoclinic.org/discussion/trigeminal-neuralgia-2273cc/

Are you able to share a little more about the symptoms you are having now?

Mayo Clinic’s info on trigeminal neuralgia treatments list a variety of anticonvulsants, antispasmodic agents or botox injections:
-- http://mayocl.in/1Mz18C8

You may wish to read this older discussion thread where Connect members are talking about their experiences with treatment
-- http://mayocl.in/28SOKk5

John

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Replies to "Hi Jenn @jennheadlee, Welcome to Mayo Clinic Connect. There is another discussion for Trigeminal Neuralgia where..."

My mother is suffering greatly with TN. She is my Dad’s primary caretaker and she is at the point where we need to look at different options to help her. She got the diagnosis at years ago from a neurologist in Savannah, Georgia. At that time he mentioned going in to cut the nerves. This frightened her (and he did not give very good statistics on it helping). She has been treating the flare ups with gabapentin and tramadol when it flares up. It seems to be flaring up more frequently and lasting longer (we think possible due to the stress of caring for my father). This current episode she actually took Percocet and ended up vomiting which obviously was misery with the pain that she is already in. She decided at this point that we need to find an expert and try to find something else to do! She is located in Statesboro, Georgia (about an hour from Savannah). Some people have told us to go to Mayo in Jacksonville, Fl. But we direction on who to go to and what would be a reasonable next step.