There are a number of reasons behind the aversion of some people to undergoing surgery just to solve their problem of trigeminal neuralgia. It has been a long-standing philosophy in conventional medicine that your only hope to manage trigeminal neuralgia is through surgical procedures. This condition is characterized by agonizing facial pain, and surgery hopes to tackle the neuropathy that induces it. A substantial number of the patients who are advised to go for such surgery tend to express some reservations. It is not surprise, then, to see many of these patients who are still looking for other opinions or suggestions and even seeking alternative treatments despite the fact that they are already under a lot of pain. Even those who opt to go for the surgery straightaway (the moment they are advised to go for it) tend to so with lots of fears in their minds. Many people are definitely still going to feel afraid about having to undergo surgery for their facial pain. Let us find out why such is the case.
Surgery is not without its risks. In fact, it could be said that risks are high with surgery, which is why a lot of people with trigeminal neuralgia are not really looking forward to it as a solution. This is, after all, not a simple case of surgical procedure that involves simple incisions. Rather, these are procedures that target the facial area: where we tend to find a complex labyrinth of nerves, blood vessels and other sensitive body tissues. You may have the best surgeon and the best team working on you, but things could still go wrong. These definitely make people afraid of surgical procedures as their mode of treatment. Still, they are desperate enough to look for ways to get rid of the facial pain they are being forced to live with.
Surgery can be painful. That is the second reason why people are afraid of it as a treatment for trigeminal neuralgia. Prior to the surgery, anesthesia will be administered in order to numb the patient against the pain. Incisions will be made during the procedure. When the anesthesia wears off, these will start becoming painful. It has been the experience of many patients that the post-operative period will be particularly an ordeal for them.
The third reason as to why many people fear the surgical procedures performed in a bid to manage trigeminal neuralgia is in the fact that they don?t always yield the desired results. We have patients on whom the surgical procedures are carried out who, after some time, start experiencing the symptoms of the condition again. Worth keeping in mind all along is the fact that even these surgical procedures are not carried out with the objective of curing the illness: they only help in the illness? management. And even in terms of ?managing? the condition, they sometimes fail to bring about the desired results. However, should the doctor recommend surgery as a treatment, the patient should still go for it. Although there is a chance that the surgery may not succeed, there is a greater chance that the patient will be better able to manage his condition.
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