Epileptiform neuralgia

The person who transferred an epileptiform neuralgia will go to anything if only it is more to meet this disease never. The main reason of such relation – the most severe pains which not just do not allow the patient to live but also bring it to "the last line" then attempts of a suicide often follow.

The epileptiform neuralgia in medicine is understood as pain which extends on the nerve trunk course. In this case she mentions a trifacial. It originates in a head cavity, then is divided into three branches and there is to a surface in cheeks, a chin also a temple. The trifacial provides sensitively human faces to heat, cold, touches, pain and other external influences.

Epileptiform neuralgia – disease origins

Severe pains are caused by traumatic impacts on a nervous trunk that happens at tumors, cicatricial changes of fabrics, hypostases and an exodontia or influence of sealing materials. Besides, at the diagnosis the epileptiform neuralgia, symptoms often are explained by overcooling of an organism. Can provoke a disease also some other factors: infections, inflammatory diseases of an oral cavity and okolonosovy bosoms, disbolism, alcohol abuse. Generally people of middle and advanced age suffer from an epileptiform neuralgia.

Epileptiform neuralgia – symptoms and a clinical picture of a disease

As a rule, the first attacks begin in a zone II and III of branches (in a nose, cheeks, an upper jaw, a mandible, lips, language, a temple). The epileptiform neuralgia begins with the I branch (eyebrows, eyes, a forehead) much less often. Pains have the shooting, sharp character therefore not casually many patients compare them to current rush. Pain is followed by involuntary reductions of facial muscles (a tic, spasms), and attacks can arise owing to the most different reasons – from a food chewing before simple movements of chewing muscles. Process is started by touches to so-called trigger points which are located on a face and a mucous membrane of an oral cavity.

Usually attacks last not for long – no more than 1-2 minutes, but because of the most severe pains of people will remember these moments for the rest of the life. Especially unpleasantly for the fact that at the diagnosis the epileptiform neuralgia treatment can be necessary for the patient within at least several weeks at any time.

In certain cases pain proceeds not several minutes, but several days. In similar situations doctors speak about the neurologic status of a disease.

Epileptiform neuralgia – treatment and forecasts

The expressed symptoms of an epileptiform neuralgia, in particular – pains and front reductions, are stopped by means of the anticonvulsant, calming and anesthetizing drugs. Practically the nerve block – introduction of the registered means directly to the area of a nerve is always used. It is necessary to take medicine at constant control of the doctor as many of them lose the efficiency over time and demand more and more high dosage. Over time the person begins to depend at the physical level on drugs. Desire to reduce intensity of pains quite clear, at the diagnosis an epileptiform neuralgia symptoms are shown really very brightly. Nevertheless, patients and their relatives have to realize harmful effects of uncontrollable reception of anesthetics and in time distinguish a stage of physical accustoming.

Except medicines the patient are appointed:

• physiotherapeutic procedures (UVCh, ultrasound, novocaine electrophoresis, diadynamic currents);
• reflexotherapy;
• electrostimulation of the struck terminations of a trifacial.

If all above described actions do not result in the expected result, doctors make the decision on surgical intervention. Operations are subdivided into 2 types:

• interruption of a sensitive nerveroot directly in a head cavity. Destruction of nerve fibrils is carried out differently. In most cases at the diagnosis the epileptiform neuralgia treatment means either use of the laser, or influence by electric discharges. The technique of carrying out operation is fulfilled to trifles. It does not cause serious complications and becomes under local anesthesia;
• when the nerve is squeezed circulatory by vessels from all directions, it is reasonable to carry out big neurosurgical operation of a decompression of a trifacial. In similar situations an operative measure is more injury-causing and therefore it is carried out under the general anesthesia.

The forecast of treatment depends on a cause of illness. The epileptiform neuralgia which symptoms were caused by injuries will well respond to treatment and has no recurrence. Especially fairly it concerning young people. Much worse the forecast at the disease provoked by disturbances of exchange processes as such epileptiform neuralgia will badly respond to treatment.