For two years, I’ve suffered with trigeminal neuralgia, a most annoying and painful condition that makes it a struggle even to brush my teeth, shave and eat. Trigeminal neuralgia causes recurrent episodes of severe, electric shock-like pains on one side of the face. Trigeminal neuralgia is rare, affecting around ten in 100,000 people a year in the UK, and some GPs will never see a patient for this condition. Write to Dr ScurrWrite to Dr Scurr at Good Health, Daily Mail, 2 Derry Street, London W8 5TT or email [email protected] — include your contact details. Many patients with depressive illness who hadn’t responded to earlier antidepressants responded well to this and the other selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor (SSRI) drugs.

Source: The Nation May 11, 2021 02:01 UTC