Wednesday, July 17, 2013

Elusive disorder has a name " Trigeminal neuralgia"

Definition

By Mayo Clinic staff

Trigeminal neuralgia is a chronic pain condition that affects the trigeminal nerve, which carries sensation from your face to your brain. If you have trigeminal neuralgia, even mild stimulation of your face — such as from brushing your teeth or putting on makeup — may trigger a jolt of excruciating pain.
You may initially experience short, mild attacks, but trigeminal neuralgia can progress, causing longer, more frequent bouts of searing pain. Trigeminal neuralgia affects women more often than men, and it's more likely to occur in people who are older than 50.

Because of the variety of treatment options available, having trigeminal neuralgia doesn't necessarily mean you're doomed to a life of pain. Doctors usually can effectively manage trigeminal neuralgia with medications, injections or surgery.

Right now for Chloe this tens unit seems to be the best form of treatment. This has been considered by others as behavior. Behavioral techniques help us get Chloe to explain the problem so we could finally be able to stop calling it the elusive disorder and it's actually name "Trigeminal Neuralgia". This has been a long and for Chloe painful journey from a floppy infant to confirmed bulging disc which probably caused the nerve issue is the timeline we had to uncover this problem.

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