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What does "atypical facial neuralgia" mean?
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Pain: Its usually a sharp pain in one side of the face.
Answered 2/2/2015
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Facial pain: This is a facial pain syndrome that don't not fall into the classic pattern of trigeminal neuralgia. It is often more difficult to treat than tn as well.
Answered 2/2/2015
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Do you have to have stabbing electric shock pain on the face to have ATYPICAL TRIGEMINAL NEURALGIA? my face burns on the left side but not stabbing!
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My doctor told me that "trigeminal neuralgia is a severe spastic, lancinating facial pain due to a disorder of the 5th cranial nerve." What does this mean?
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Burning sensation on left side of face, eye, nostril, lip, cheek, but NO electric stabbing pain at all, could this be ATYPICAL trigeminal neuralgia?
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