How to treat trigeminal neuralgia

My dad has had this condition for four or five years and it is very painful. I now have a very good understanding of this disease, to give you some advice.

There are two kinds of treatment: one, neurology, eat painkillers, and the country's hospitals, to and from the drug on the several, each ate a two or three years, the body produces resistance, the effect of the drug is not as good as it was before, really can not stand, can only consider surgery. Drug therapy has a called carbamazepine, this drug has a certain degree of toxicity, the average person to eat long-term is harmful to the body, but this kind of drugstore generally have, but also cheap, but the doctor is not recommended to eat for a long time, really can not stand can eat. There is also a drug is gabapentin capsule, itself is the treatment of epilepsy, but can cure trigeminal neuralgia. Second, neurosurgery, even if surgery. Divided into two kinds, one is laser treatment, that is, ray treatment, according to the laser treatment area billing, may be the cost of surgery 30,000 to 40,000, but the recurrence rate is a little high, may be two or three years later and will recur, and once you have done the laser, the future to consider the open surgery is not good to do. Probably the principle of the laser is to electrocute this part of the nerve, and the effect of open surgery later is not good. The laser one is just wearing a cap and done in an instrument, which is safer. Another surgery is craniotomy, there is a certain degree of risk, and the heart is not suitable for patients to do this kind of surgery, probably the two adherent nerves (trigeminal neuralgia is one or two of the two nerves are broken, adhered to a piece of, like wires affecting its electricity) apart, the middle pad a piece of cotton, the operation is to open a hole in the back of the ear, hospitals claim that is minimally invasive, but post-operative intracranial infection may be, and after all, is to open a hole in the ear. The hospital claims to be minimally invasive, but there is a possibility of intracranial infection after the operation, and after all, the brain is open, the surgical risk is greater.

We also saw the Chinese medicine, ate a period of time of Chinese medicine, but the effect of Chinese medicine is very slow, and the doctor prescribed medicine is a long time will be diarrhea, and the cost is a little high, the back did not eat again, because my father was not good at gastrointestinal, ate every day diarrhea is not suitable. That traditional Chinese medicine or military doctors to come. I previously engaged in the work is to do medical software, customers are hospitals, I often go to the hospital customers, but also consult a lot of doctors in this area, Shenzhen Futian Hospital of Chinese medicine of trigeminal neuralgia director said that this disease can only be controlled, is unable to cure, even if acupuncture, but also can only alleviate, can not be cured.

I took my father to see the Shenzhen Nanshan Hospital, Shenzhen People's Hospital, Guangzhou Sanjiu Brain Hospital, is still taking medication, considering the year after the hometown to find a laser equipment to do surgery (my father's heart is not very good, is not suitable for surgery), my father now can not tolerate that kind of pain, because of this kind of disease, with the growth of time, the area of its pain is more and more, and long-term painkillers and His blood pressure medication, his body has lost dozens of pounds in the past few years, is now skin and bones, and long-term must be supplemented, once the attack can not do anything, is the need to have someone to look after, these years, my mother to take care of him also followed the body exhausted, we do children, in order to make money or run around outside, just to give them better conditions.

If you have other treatments for this disease in your life, you can also communicate. I wish you all good health.