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Welcome to the FPA's Video Series featuring presentations from the 2024 FPA Conference. The topic for today’s webinar is Medications to Treat Facial Pain, presented by Dr. Wolfgang Liedtke. Dr. Liedtke is the Chair of Neurology, Psychiatry, Pain Medicine, and Sensory Systems at Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, Member of the Global Development Scientific Council, Member of the American Clinical and Climatological Association, and FPA Medical Advisory Board Member.
I’m in Canada. My neurologist has suggested trying IVIG treatment due to the benefits of reducing inflammation. Is this something that anyone has found a benefit from? Thank you for this informative talk you have allowed me to have hope
Very interesting, Dr liedtke spoke with my wife, Emily, around covids very harsh effects on the trigeminal nerve. Still searching for treatment in Australia but it is slowly becoming mainstream to connect covid and facial nerve pain.
I had severe double side of trigeminal neuralgia that was successfully treated with trileptal and fiorinal w codeine for any sudden break thru pain. After many years I was found to have pernicious anemia and went on B-12 injections and the side effect was the trigeminal neuralgia all but disappeared. I will occasionally have a break thru but I feel like the b-12 saved me from the horror of this awful condition. Any doctor who does not offer pain meds for this condition should not be treating it. It feels like a screwdriver driven thru the top of your head, thru your eyeball, and out behind your ear. Just when you think you can't take any more pain, it feels like someone then turned the screwdriver even deeper. It is so painful, you can't cry, you can't talk and you can't function. The very last thing I would want to take is a benzodiazepine.
