Painful face twitch

Trigeminal neuralgia, also known as painful convulsions. It is sometimes called "face pain" and is easily confused with toothache. It is a kind of paroxysmal severe neuralgia that recurs in the facial trigeminal nerve distribution area. Trigeminal neuralgia is one of the common diseases of neurosurgery and one of the internationally recognized incurable diseases. Most trigeminal neuralgias start at the age of 40, mostly in middle-aged and elderly people, especially in women, and the incidence is more on the right than on the left. The disease is characterized by sudden onset, sudden arrest, lightning-like, knife-like, burning-like, stubborn, unbearable severe pain in the trigeminal nerve distribution area of ​​the head and face.

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