Text/Yangcheng Evening News all-media reporter Lin Qingqing
Correspondent Zheng Lin
Photo/Visual China (picture and text independent)
Guangzhou 70 years ago grandma was known as the "world's first pain" known as the trigeminal neuralgia "tortured" for 10 years, after many treatments have recurred, resulting in mental atrophy, pain is not desired. Doctors in Guangzhou remind that trigeminal neuralgia is difficult to heal and easy to misdiagnose, but it is not impossible to treat.
"Face pain" occurs multiple times
Huang Apo (pseudonym), a 72-year-old from Guangzhou, is a tough body and often asks three or five friends to "sigh morning tea" everywhere in her leisure time. According to Miss Zhang (pseudonym), Huang's daughter, since about 2011, Huang's right cheek has been inexplicably and wonderfully painful. "It hurts like a knife!" Brushing your teeth, drinking water, blowing the wind, getting cold, eating, etc. can all cause seizures. Miss Zhang said that from time to time without warning, she had seizures, which made her miserable.
Eventually, Huang was diagnosed with trigeminal neuralgia at a nearby hospital and received gamma knife treatment. Unexpectedly, in 2015, trigeminal neuralgia recurred. So she went to a nearby hospital to receive gamma knife treatment again.
"During this year's Spring Festival, I still visit relatives and friends normally." On the tenth day of the first lunar month, trigeminal neuralgia recurred again. Miss Zhang said that she thought of receiving conservative treatment such as drugs when she was older, but she was dizzy and vomited after taking the medicine, and the reaction was very strong. "I can't eat or sleep, I can't sleep all day, I don't go out if I'm sullen all day."
"I haven't had morning tea in a long time." Huang Apo said helplessly. On March 10, Accompanied by her daughter, Huang Apo went to Guangdong Sanjiu Brain Hospital.
The surgery relieves the trouble and the other functions of the face are well preserved
"Trigeminal neuralgia is clearly diagnosed." Lu Ming, the vice president of the hospital, asked the patient in detail about his medical history and physical examination. Considering the recurrence after multiple gamma knife treatments, LuMin recommends that patients undergo surgery. After perfecting the relevant preoperative examinations, Lu Ming and Wang Guoliang, director of the Five Departments of Neurology, performed trigeminal nerve microvessel decompression for the patients, and successfully relieved the trigeminal neuralgia compressed by the artery.
"After the operation, the pain in the right side of the patient's face disappeared, and other facial functions were well preserved. After symptomatic treatment, the pain that has plagued me for many years is finally gone! Wang Guoliang said. Grandma Huang also finally returned to her former smile and was successfully discharged from the hospital recently.
Trigeminal neuralgia is known as the "world's first pain" and usually manifests as electrical shock-like, needle-like, knife-cut or tear-like pain in the teeth, gums, lips and other places. Lu Ming introduced that microvascular decompression can explore the trigeminal nerve walking area, "loosen" all blood vessels that may produce compression, and isolate these blood vessels from the nerve roots with gaskets, and Huang Apo's trigeminal nerves are compressed by the upper and lower two blood vessels and are separately padded. "When the responsible blood vessels are isolated, the source of the stimulus disappears, and the high excitability of the trigeminal nerve nucleus disappears."
Lu Ming stressed that trigeminal neuralgia is difficult to heal itself, and it is easy to misdiagnose it as ordinary toothache, once the public friends have obvious pain in the face and cannot be cured for a long time, they should immediately go to the neurology department for treatment, not without treatment. (For more news, please pay attention to Yangcheng Pie pai.ycwb.com)
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