Trigeminal neuralgia or the Teeth Severe Pain!!!

I am a 26-year-old male that has severe pain in upper jaw feels as if it is coming from a tooth on right side of my face. The pain will go away for a month or two and come back in a violet attack. The pain is the worst I have ever felt its feels like a shocking pain in my tooth that last for about 10 seconds sometimes followed up by one or two more quick attacks. When I say pain I mean pain it’s the type that will take a grown man to his knees it make you want to vomit its so bad. After the attacks I will usually have a dull intermittent pain that sometimes will even throb but nothing like the attacks for a day or so then it improves and even goes away.

This is where I get strange both attacks have taken place in the shower, I am actually afraid to take a shower. At one time I loved the shower warmth but now it has become the shower of torment.

My teeth have been neglected for years and I maybe have trouble with my wisdom teeth. I have an appointment very soon but I am worried.

When I researched the symptoms I came back with Trigeminal neuralgia does this sound possible?

What are some tell tale ways to separate the two?

And last but not least doses this sound live a problem with the teeth or something more sinister?

[bigkev414]

its not trigeminal neuralgia because thats on the lower jaw spreading from the centre of the bottom of the jaw up along the side of the face towards the ear...atleast thatswhat they have been telling me for years. Sounds like some nerve problem though and nervescan be affected by bad teeth and the pain can be felt in another tooth or part of the face from the bad one. Ive been through all of this and am still battling...had a toothache in a bottom front tooth whichwas caused by a bad tooth with an abscess on top. Had the tooth out and the bottom one stopped aching. Start with the dentist. good luck

[big J]

Thanks so much for taking the time to write that puts my mind at ease about the Trigeminal neuralgia. I have a lot of throbbing pain today that I did not have the first time it happen and it’s and I think it’s coming my wisdom tooth in the upper right. I am still unsure why it happen in the shower could be coincidental.