Meds and surgery: Trigeminal neuralgia is treated with medications first. These medications are a special class of medications that are also used to treat epilepsy. If medications don't work or cause a lot of side effects, surgery can help. There are multiple surgery options, so seek an expert that is experienced in more than one technique. Surgeries include microvascular decompression and gamma knife.
Answered 12/17/2014
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Whole variety: Meds include: carbamazepine, oxcarbezine, baclofen, lyrica, (pregabalin) neurontin, cymbalta. Surgery such as decompression if trigeminal nerve impinged, variety of injections and nerve desensitization procedures, balloon decompression at exiting foramen at base of skull. Expert neurosurgeons can create miraculous recoveries.
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