Together, we can make a difference. The electric shock-like pain generally is on one side of the face and is spasmodic, coming in short bursts lasting a few seconds.
Several attacks can follow each other within minutes.
Eating, shaving, applying makeup and talking can be triggers. There can be periods of remission when pain is completely absent. These periods of remission, which can last days, weeks, months, even years, are unpredictable and without medical treatment, the pain usually returns. Trigeminal neuralgia is a disorder of the trigeminal nerve, one of twelve pairs of cranial nerves in the head, TN is a very rare condition. Statistics vary, but TN occurs in approximately 150 per million people per year.