I hope this posting will be a source of
encouragement to all my friends who may be
suffering from Trigeminal Neuralgia. My
dad had been suffering from Trigeminal
Neuralgia for 6 years, is now healed
completely after a gamma knife surgery in
2004, and has been pain-free since then.
We live in Singapore and my dad was
diagnosed in 1998 at age of 51 with
Trigeminal Neuralgia, the pain is in the
Trigeminal nerve on the left side of his
face. He is a tough man with super high
tolerance of pain but yet TN was able to
drive him to despair. It pains me even now
to recall the many times when my dad would
just be struggling with the facial pain,
unable to talk, eat and even drink (at the
peak of pain....). And do you know what's
the worst feeling a son can feel?... That
is, the sense of TOTAL HELPLESSNESS, not
able to help in anyway to relief the pain
my dad is going through. I would say our
close-knitted, happy, joyous family had
been dealt a severe blow of gloominess
caused by Trigeminal Neuralgia.
To make the matter worst, my dad was
further diagnosed in 2004 with Acoustic
Neuroma %u201Cbenign brain tumor%u201D.
This unfortunate news, coupled with the
fact that medication is no longer
providing relief (carbamazepine %u2013
already at peak of 12 tablet of 200mg a
day), forced us to explore surgeries
treatment. My dad went for the gamma knife
surgery with Dr Chou Ning from National
University Hospital. And what a JUBILEE,
that the pain ceased tremendously
immediately after the gamma knife and
disappeared completely one month after the
surgery! The rest are history, our blanket
of gloom had been permanently lifted and
there is no recurrence of Trigeminal
Neuralgia for my dad.
