The following is a description of pain symptoms from a patient with trigeminal neuralgia, the symptoms are typical, the description is very detailed and specific, and the treatment process is also very representative, so I offer it to you as a reference for diagnosis and treatment: I have suffered from trigeminal neuralgia for 24 years, during which I took carbamazepine, but this drug has a lot of side effects, and then there was an allergic reaction, so I can no longer use it. When the pain was too much, I went to acupuncture. At first, the pain could be relieved by acupuncture 30 or 40 times, but it only lasted for a few months, up to a year, so I gave up acupuncture. This disease is characterized by more and more frequent pain, and heavier than once, the continuous pain time will be longer and longer, from the first few seconds, to later an hour or even longer, the pain is impossible to describe in words, is the feeling of life is worse than death. But why did I endure so many years without using other methods of treatment? There were too many negative feedbacks, some still hurt after surgery, some nerve damage, resulting in numbness and no feeling in the face, and some would recur, so I put down the idea of surgery many years ago. But a while ago the pain was the heaviest in my twenty years, a long time of pain, basically no pain, brush teeth, wash face, eat and drink water can not, hair can not be combed, can not stand it anymore, long pain is better than short pain. I started to look up information, did a lot of homework, and repeatedly compared and deliberated. Among the various treatment methods, the expert first recommended microvascular decompression, which is characterized by high cure rate, low recurrence rate, no damage to nerves, and no pain immediately after the surgery.