How effective is microvascular decompression for trigeminal neuralgia? Can it be cured? Here’s a case study For 45-year-old Ms. Zhang, the first two years of her life hit a huge low point. Trigeminal neuralgia, a medical term she had never heard of before, became the demon of her two years of pain. Now every time she thinks about it, she is full of regret, “If only I had gone to the hospital earlier for surgical treatment, I wouldn’t have to endure two years of inhuman torture, and I would have spent less money.” Originally, two years ago, Ms. Zhang occasional facial discomfort, at first did not pay attention. Two days after the facial paroxysmal pain from time to time, a pain up endless, day and night. Go to the hospital for examination, the doctor diagnosed as “tertiary neuralgia”. After consulting with doctors at the county hospital, Ms. Zhang chose a conservative treatment plan of medication + physical therapy. Originally thought it was just a small disease, take some medicine will be fine. However, the trigeminal neuralgia was like the marrow of her bones, and she couldn’t get rid of it. During the two years, Ms. Zhang took more and more medication, the amount is also getting bigger and bigger, but the pain effect is also getting heavier and heavier. In desperation, she was referred to the hospital for surgical treatment. After microvascular decompression surgery, Ms. Zhang’s condition is now completely cured, and has not recurred once. Warm reminder: there are many cases similar to Ms. Zhang’s, and many patients feel that surgery is very risky, especially neurological surgery, and once there is a mistake, they will regret for the rest of their lives. In fact, patients do not have to worry, the current total of more than 30,000 patients have been prescribed trigeminal neuralgia surgery, a one-time cure rate of 98%. Microvascular decompression surgery is a surgery directly targeting the lesion. Under the microscope, the surgeon can accurately find the root cause of the pain, and then carefully strip the responsible nerves and compressed blood vessels, removing the root cause of the disease, and the pain will naturally be cured.