Her face is withered, depressed, her eyes are dull, her gaze is dull, sometimes she is in pain like a catastrophe, sometimes she is a bird of prey, trembling …… Since she got trigeminal neuralgia, Ms. Tang has been emaciated and aged, and she lives in fear all day. This problem, I do not know what the reason is, said to come. 20 years ago on the right side of the face as painful as pins and needles, but also radiated to the temples, abruptly passed, like an electric shock, paroxysmal attacks, pain once the attack is really life-threatening, unbearable. What’s worse: the pain is unsure when it will strike. Sometimes when I accidentally lick my tongue on my gums or upper jaw, the pain comes on, and when I wash my face and brush my teeth and eat, not to mention the fact that when I touch the right side of my face, it’s like I hit a switch and the pain kicks in. In this way, I didn’t dare to eat, brush my teeth, wash my face, or speak, and I was living in hell, and I didn’t know when the pain of torture would come. The physical pain and the mental torture were like years …… From then on, Ms. Tang began to struggle with trigeminal neuralgia. First, she was prescribed some pain relief pills at a small clinic nearby, but there was no improvement after taking them; she thought it was a toothache, so she went to a dental hospital and had the tooth that might be causing the pain removed, but the facial pain remained the same. After examination, she was diagnosed with “right trigeminal neuralgia” and prescribed some oral medication (carbamazepine, etc.). I was so happy that I thought, “The experts in the big hospital are great, they can solve the trigeminal neuralgia at once. However, the good times did not last long, the pain symptoms on the face gradually became uncontrollable, and the dosage of carbamazepine became larger and larger, while the time the pain could be controlled became shorter and shorter. Moreover, the side effects of the medication became more and more obvious due to the high dosage: dizziness, silence and listlessness. When I went to consult a specialist again, he told me that the cause of trigeminal neuralgia is generally vascular compression of the intracranial segment of the trigeminal nerve, and that early application of carbamazepine is effective, but it cannot cure the problem fundamentally because the cause of the disease, vascular compression, cannot be lifted by drugs…. …All of a sudden, Ms. Tang fell into the abyss of pain again …… What to do? The pain is really no way, listen to the advice of friends in the neighborhood, while stuffing a large number of pills into the mouth, while turning to seek the help of the motherland of Chinese medicine acupuncture. Disappointingly, after applying several courses of herbal facial compresses, acupuncture and physiotherapy, the symptoms of trigeminal neuralgia remained the same as yesterday. The pain was very difficult and life was worse than death. Through the introduction of the patient and a lot of information on the Internet, I inquired about the trigeminal nerve radiofrequency thermal coagulation can relieve the trigeminal nerve pain in a short time. So, resorted to radiofrequency surgery. Before RF, the physician told Ms. Tang that the symptoms of trigeminal neuralgia could be relieved after RF, but it would cause facial numbness. After a short period of pain, the radiofrequency was successful. However, Ms. Tang felt no sensation in the right side of her face. She thought, “Finally, the pain is relieved, no need to take a lot of medicine, and the numbness of the face is not a big problem, it is better than the pain. In the following days, Ms. Tang’s mood was much better than before, and she could taste the sumptuous food again, but because of the numbness of the right side of the face without feeling, she often bit the right side of the buccal mucosa when eating, and ulcers occurred, which was very painful. After 3 months, the pain in the face came back, and I had to take a lot of medicine again, but the effect was getting worse. Once again, fell into the deep valley of pain, can not extricate …… very helpless, and visited some folk remedies, plus take some drugs that may relieve the symptoms of pain, the results are always disappointing. Gradually lost confidence in treatment …… by chance heard from a patient that the neurosurgery department of Shanghai Xinhua Hospital is skilled in carrying out microvascular decompression surgery for trigeminal neuralgia, which can relieve this problem from its cause. After hearing this news, Ms. Tang got excited: treating from the cause should be able to cure it. After consulting with a neurosurgeon, a careful physical examination confirmed that microvascular decompression surgery could be performed. Soon, a hospital bed was contacted and the preoperative preparation was perfected. It was like taking a nap and the surgery was over in a while, and the facial pain disappeared after waking up. After 4-5 days of rest, he went home happily. Now, it has been several months since the surgery, and the facial pain has never flared up, and I don’t need to take any medication. It seems like yesterday when I was tormented by the nightmarish days of trigeminal neuralgia, it is chilling. Now, finally, with the help of the neurosurgeons of Shanghai Xinhua Hospital, she has got rid of this disease demon and returned to a normal life. Tasting sweet food, humming a long-lost ditty, and talking with old friends about their heart …… It turns out that the day without trigeminal neuralgia torment is so beautiful!