Can trigeminal neuralgia be life-threatening?

  Trigeminal neuralgia is a persistent disease, and the vast majority of patients will have more severe and more frequent attacks as the disease progresses, and I believe many patients know this phenomenon very well. After a strong painful stimulation, it makes the patient’s spirit abnormally nervous and unforgettable for life, causing great physical and mental pain. Therefore, once you suffer from trigeminal neuralgia, you should not be careless about this disease, and you should not just rely on “tolerance” when you have an attack.  The harm of trigeminal neuralgia to the body: 1, affect normal life. Because trigeminal neuralgia is a recurrent paroxysmal pain, the nature of the cut, stab, electric shock or burning-like, and the frequency of attacks and pain state increases with the prolongation of the disease, the natural interval is gradually shortened so that the whole day seizure, even a slight stimulation can cause trigeminal neuralgia pain attacks, so the harm of trigeminal neuralgia will make patients afraid to wash their faces, fear to eat, rinse and brush their teeth, malnutrition Therefore, the harm of trigeminal neuralgia can make patients afraid to wash their faces, afraid to eat, rinse their mouths and brush their teeth, malnourished, face dirty, and have a great impact on the patient’s mental and psychological state.  2, emotional changes, personality changes. The harm of trigeminal neuralgia will make patients anxious, irritable and irritable, many people’s mental activities are in a state of inhibition, depressed, pessimistic and disappointed, can not bear its pain, and even the idea of light life. Long-term depression makes trigeminal neuralgia patients indifferent in expression and unresponsive to external changes.  3, easy to cause complications or even life-threatening. Acute or prolonged trigeminal neuralgia is likely to cause a series of changes in the physiological activities of the body such as neuroendocrine, circulatory system, respiratory system and digestive system. The harm of trigeminal neuralgia will make the patient constantly attacked pain stimulation, so that the central nervous system in an excited state, sympathetic excitability increased, manifested as increased secretion of catecholamines, glycogenolysis strengthened, coupled with many trigeminal neuralgia patients dare not eat, the body presents a negative nitrogen balance state, long-term complications can lead to life-threatening.  Patients with trigeminal neuralgia should go to regular hospitals for treatment in a timely manner, and the current clinical surgical treatment method is microvascular decompression. The cause of trigeminal neuralgia is demyelination caused by the compression of the facial nerve by intracranial vessels, so the cause of this disease is not on the surface.