re: Trigeminal neuralgia - dealing with severe nerve pain - 15 month Update pg3

His was due to pressure being put on the nerve by the cluster of blood vessels pressing against the nerve which was triggering the pain. The surgery was called 'Microvascular Decompression' He went to Ohio and had the surgery done. He's an old school ER doc and treatment/surgery is always 2nd option to either give it time or suck it up, but with trigeminal, he recommends surgery to everyone that has pain like your SO and what his was. There's no other way to deal with it other than the symptons and often it only gets worse.

Edit: He got diagnosed and after 8 months of dealing with it, had the surgery.