Myths about the treatment of trigeminal neuralgia 1. Blindly extracting teeth. As the pain symptoms of trigeminal neuralgia and toothache are similar, it is very easy to be confused, thinking that it is toothache and thinking that tooth extraction can relieve the pain, without knowing that it delays the timely and correct diagnosis and treatment. Trigeminal neuralgia is characterized by recurrent episodes of severe pain in the facial areas such as the lips, corners of the mouth, nose, palate or oral mucosa. Therefore, early mild trigeminal neuralgia or atypical trigeminal neuralgia is often mistaken for toothache, and patients even blindly go to tooth extraction, thinking that the root of the disease can be removed, which is actually a big mistake. 2. Take medicine indiscriminately. Many patients, unaware of their condition, only think about relieving pain and take painkillers indiscriminately without any medical basis. I do not know that some pain medications are more serious to the condition of trigeminal neuralgia. 3. Believe in secret recipes. Many patients with trigeminal neuralgia have suffered from trigeminal nerve pain for many years and have been treated ineffectively by many parties, as the saying goes, they often mistakenly believe in some so-called “prescriptions, ancestral secret recipes” for the treatment of trigeminal neuralgia, resulting in money not less spent, not only did not reduce the pain, but also led to a variety of complications, resulting in The result is that money is not spent and the pain is not relieved, but leads to various complications, resulting in lifelong regret. 4, incurable disease. Many patients lose confidence in the cure after years of using various treatments that are ineffective, thinking that trigeminal neuralgia is an incurable disease, and then become pessimistic and disappointed in life. Modern medical level is more and more developed, if you find similar symptoms of trigeminal neuralgia, do not be anxious, and do not ignore it, you should go to the regular hospital in time to confirm the diagnosis and active treatment.