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?