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Can a chronic discomfort on upper lip, nose be trigeminal neuralgia? the pain is barely noticeable, just mild. no paroxysmal stabbing pain at all.

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Dr. William Culviner answered

Specializes in ENT and Head and Neck Surgery

Neuralgia : Neuralgia means nerve pain, so you have that but you do not sound like you have the syndrome of trigeminal neuralgia, which is a diffuse unilateral neuralgia of the entire 5th cranial nerve that originates at the brainstem, usually due to vascular compression syndrome.

Answered 10/24/2015

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