What's wrong with the neuralgia on half of my face

If you experience neuralgia on one side of your face, generally speaking, this is typical trigeminal neuralgia. Trigeminal neuralgia is a relatively common disease that is quite harmful to patients. The pain will make patients feel particularly painful. When you experience neuralgia on one side of your face, you must be alert to whether it is trigeminal neuralgia. You can also make certain judgments yourself. Of course, you also need to go to the hospital for examination and regular treatment in time.

What is the cause of neuralgia on one side of the face?

Facial pain is a typical symptom of trigeminal neuralgia, and patients often experience "pain on half of the face", "pain on the left side of the face", "pain on the right side of the face", etc. One of the symptoms of this disease is unbearable pain, such as cutting, lightning, needle-like or tearing pain. Each time it lasts for a very short time, so many people don't know what is going on. So, what is the cause of pain on one side of the face? The following expert from the Department of Neurosurgery of the Air Force General Hospital will explain it to us.

According to relevant clinical statistics, among patients with facial pain diagnosed with trigeminal neuralgia, only a very small number are caused by toothache or submandibular nerve disorder. Therefore, facial neuralgia and face pain are often equated with trigeminal neuralgia in medicine.

Experts remind: If you have pain on one side of your face, beware of trigeminal neuralgia!

According to experts from the Department of Neurosurgery at the Air Force General Hospital, trigeminal neuralgia refers to recurrent paroxysmal severe neuralgia in the distribution area of ​​the trigeminal nerve in the face. The characteristics of the disease are: sudden onset and cessation of pain, lightning-like, knife-like, burning-like, persistent, and unbearable severe pain in the distribution area of ​​the trigeminal nerve in the head and face; the disease occurs more on the right side than on the left side, and the pain starts from a certain point in the face, mouth or mandible and spreads to one or more branches of the trigeminal nerve. The second and third branches are most common, and the first branch is rare. Therefore, when you experience facial pain in your daily life, you should be alert to the possibility of trigeminal neuralgia and go to a specialist hospital for diagnosis and treatment as soon as possible!

How to tell if you have trigeminal neuralgia?

1. The pain comes on suddenly, starting from the cheek, upper jaw or front of the tongue and spreading quickly

2. The pain is severe and unbearable

3. Pain like pricking, cutting, touching or tearing

4. Facial muscle twitching, tearing and drooling

5. When it is cold, the lips, nose, cheeks, corners of the mouth, canine teeth and tongue are particularly sensitive and a slight touch can cause an attack.