Neuropathic neuralgia is generally not life-threatening, and whether or not a patient’s life is threatened depends on the specific type of disease that causes the neuralgia. Take trigeminal neuralgia as an example, trigeminal neuralgia is divided into two categories: primary and secondary. Primary trigeminal neuralgia is caused by the compression of the trigeminal nerve by vascular collaterals, which is not life-threatening and can be treated symptomatically with pain medication. Although the pain of trigeminal neuralgia is severe, causing pain and affecting the patient’s life, it will not lead to death. However, if the pain is secondary to trigeminal neuralgia, it depends on what kind of disease is secondary to it. For example, if the trigeminal nerve is damaged by an intracranial malignant tumor, the patient is at risk of death if the malignant tumor is not completely cured. However, malignant tumors are difficult to cure and require surgery combined with radiotherapy, and even with aggressive treatment there is still a certain mortality rate.