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Can Intense Pulsed-light Procedures Trigger Facial Nerve Pain?

Posted on Wed, 4 Oct 2017

Question: 2 weeks ago I had some nerve pain in my face - mostly in both chin up to ears area. It lasted from Thur. through the Memorial Day weekend. By Tue. it was much less then left - skin on face stayed sore for a few days more. I had this happen about 25 yrs. ago and it also went away. My concern immediately is my Dermatologist wants me to do the second series of Intense Pulsed-Light (IPL) a 3X procedure. I'm a little worried it may trigger this. I had the procedure in March -April and May of this year and needs to be done again to try and prevent XXXXXXX and squamous skin cancer from appearing. What do you think?

Answered by Dr. Asmeet Kaur Sawhney (1 hour later)

Brief Answer:
Can go for IPL sessions, don't think it will aggravate the pain

Detailed Answer:
Hi
Thanks for being at HealthcareMagic,

I have gone through your complaints and it seems to be trigeminal neuralgia.

Trigeminal neuralgia or pain per se is not a contraindication for IPL sessions .
Since currently, you are not having pain you can go for IPL sessions.

I don't think it will trigger the pain.

Regards
Dr Asmeet

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Above answer was peer-reviewed by : Dr. Arnab Banerjee