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What symptoms characterize trigeminal neuralgia?

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See below: Trigeminal neuralgia symptoms may include one or more of these patterns: occasional twinges of mild pain episodes of severe, shooting or jabbing pain spontaneous attacks of pain or attacks triggered by things such as touching the face, chewing, speaking and brushing teeth bouts of pain lasting from a few seconds to several seconds episodes of several attacks lasting days.

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Dr. Paul Grin answered

Specializes in Pain Management

TN symptoms: Intermittent, sharp, shooting, electric shock-like pain, extreme, sporadic, sudden few seconds to two minutes per episode. The attacks can occur in quick succession.

Answered 3/31/2019

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Isn't there a test of some sort to tell if you've got trigeminal neuralgia?

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