Trigeminal neuralgia can be treated by avoiding triggers such as emotional excitement, applying medications such as carbamazepine and phenytoin sodium, surgery, and other special modalities.
1. Avoid triggers: Avoid emotional stress, excessive pressure, prolonged late nights, strenuous facial activities, smoking and drinking, etc., eat a light and digestible diet, and pay attention to keeping the face warm.
2. Medication: Carbamazepine is the first choice of medication for trigeminal neuralgia, in addition to phenytoin sodium, pregabalin, gabapentin and other drugs also have a certain therapeutic effect.
3. Surgery: Trigeminal nerve microdecompression surgery is the most commonly used and effective way to treat secondary trigeminal neuralgia by displacing the blood vessels compressing the trigeminal nerve.
4. Other modalities: If medication is ineffective and you do not want to undergo surgery, you can use glycerin or anhydrous ethanol to seal the trigeminal nerve semilunar nodes or branches, and there are also gamma knife and percutaneous radiofrequency coagulation of semilunar ganglia.
Pay attention to the treatment under the guidance of a physician.