Does anyone have experience of this and how do you treat yourself? Is it stress related?

I have what I have always referred to as neuralgia on mainly on my face made worse or at least different  since I had singles in the trigeminal nerve. It occasionaly afects my neck and shoulders too
Where is yours ? In my case it is relatively mild I believe although its bad enough thank you and tend to use ibrprofen na d a hotwater bottle. It also comes and goes completely randomly
I am convinced it is stress and tiredness related not sure what the medics would say
If you are talking trigeminal neuralgia in its full blown form you definitely need help from you gp and sometimes an operation with variable results can be recommend . Its a miserable condition so I sympathize

Hi furriefriends, this has come completely out of the blue a couple of days ago. At first I thought it might be wisdom teeth (at age 54?), but yesterday suddenly flared up so badly I had to pull over to the side of the road. It seems to be my lower right jaw, neck and cheekbone--any and all of these, completely randomly,and at its worst leaves me absolutely shocked by pain. As it is I can't eat today (well, a silver lining to every cloud :)) and although I very rarely take any medication have been necking paracetamol and codeine every three hours, which takes the edge off it. Hopefully it will disappear just as quickly as it came, but if it comes on again I will definitely go and see a GP. I go in so rarely that my last two GPs have retired after seeing me twice in nearly 30 years LOL. I'm assuming these events are unconnected :)

Poor you if it doesn't go by monday def go. And find a non retired gp lol you need checking out .

So sorry, poor you. Remember no more than eight paracetamol a day! A chiropractor has helped, for a friend who suffers.

Thanks Lacy! I'm all in favour of anything that doesn't involve drugs, needles or anything much more invasive than conversation :)

Actually I was going to write to you on the subject of nail clippers--used the Mars Rostfrei yesterday on our Jack, the world's biggest crybaby...and he cried! so they work well on the other dogs, but it's back to Resco for the cowardly lion...

Thinking about it, now I know where Jack gets it from :)

You can take ibuprofen along with paracetamol if you need to top up the pain relief.

thanks Dakkobear--I will if I need to, but hoping tomorrow will be back to normal again.

Don't think Jack has anything to complain about in comparison to neuralgia!
Otto used to struggle so badly I used to put off the dreaded dead, but since I got the sharp nail clippers and dutifully do them both every Sunday I get to drink my mug of coffee whille it's still hot.
Hope the pain eases soon, best wishes.

LOL, Jack is a bit of a shrieker at the best of times--can't strip his ears without the neighbours suspecting murder next door so have given up on them and just scissor them instead. If my dogs showed the slightest symptoms of neuralgia I would be in utter panic flying round to the vets--as it is I will head for the duvet after the dogs get their late night walk :), best treatment there is...