Ever heard of suicide disease? Few years before it was in the news, after Salman Khan opened about it in an interview. Medically known as Trigeminal neuralgia, suicide disease is termed so because of the unbearable pain it puts on the patients.
Recently, a 46 year old man was treated for Trigeminal Neuralgia at a hospital in Lucknow. He was experiencing severe pain on the right side of his face for six years. Despite using painkillers and undergoing treatments since the age of 40, he found no relief. Ashok sought help from Dr Vinod Tiwari, a neurosurgeon at Balrampur Hospital. Dr Tiwari noted that Kumar’s right facial pain was triggered by minor activities such as wind, brushing his teeth, gargling, eating, drinking water, or a light touch on his right cheek, causing him hours of excruciating pain. “I told him if it is not cured by medicines, then surgery is the only solution,” said Dr Tiwari.
