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How Causes Numbness On Side Of Face Even After Medicines For Trigemenial Nueralgia?

my daughter is 24 years old and was diagonosed with Trigemenial Nueralgia and the neurologist gave her meds. She still has some pain and numbness on one side of the face. The doctor just ordered an MRI of the brain and drew blood. She has no other numbness other than that on the side of her face
Thu, 6 Mar 2014
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Hi,

Thank you for posting your query.

I have noted the symptoms of your daughter.

MRI is done to exclude a diagnosis of multiple sclerosis (MS) in patient with trigeminal neuralgia (TN). This is because TN is a common symptom of MS.

This can be clearly diagnosed on the MRI brain.

Other causes of TN could be a vascular (artery or blood vessel) loop around the trigeminal nerve, which can also be diagnosed on MRI.

I hope my reply has helped you.

I would be pleased to answer, if you have any follow up queries or if you require any further information.
     
Best wishes,
Dr Sudhir Kumar MD (Internal Medicine), DM (Neurology)
Senior Consultant Neurologist
Apollo Hospitals, Hyderabad,
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How Causes Numbness On Side Of Face Even After Medicines For Trigemenial Nueralgia?

Hi, Thank you for posting your query. I have noted the symptoms of your daughter. MRI is done to exclude a diagnosis of multiple sclerosis (MS) in patient with trigeminal neuralgia (TN). This is because TN is a common symptom of MS. This can be clearly diagnosed on the MRI brain. Other causes of TN could be a vascular (artery or blood vessel) loop around the trigeminal nerve, which can also be diagnosed on MRI. I hope my reply has helped you. I would be pleased to answer, if you have any follow up queries or if you require any further information. Best wishes, Dr Sudhir Kumar MD (Internal Medicine), DM (Neurology) Senior Consultant Neurologist Apollo Hospitals, Hyderabad, For DIRECT QUERY to me: http://bit.ly/Dr-Sudhir-kumar My blog: http://bestneurodoctor.blogspot.com/