Table 6 Pain Control by Pain, Medication and Surgical History
From: Burden of illness of trigeminal neuralgia among patients managed in a specialist center in England
Pain | Medication | Surgeryb | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Item | Overall | Any attacks in the past 4 weeks | No TN in the past 4 weeks | Current monotherapy | Current polytherapy | Took but Stopped | No surgery | MVD only | Ablative surgery | MVD + Ablative surgery |
Current Medication, n (%) | ||||||||||
N = 129 | n = 59 | n = 69 | n = 49 | n = 35 | n = 45 | N = 77 | n = 30 | n = 13 | n = 8 | |
Currently Taking Medicationa | 84 (65) | 51 (40) | 32 (25) | 49 (38) | 35 (27) | 0 | 59 (46) | 10 (8) | 9 (7) | 6 (5) |
Not currently taking medication to manage pain | 45 (35) | 8 (6) | 37 (29) | 0 | 0 | 45 (35) | 18 (14) | 20 (16) | 4 (3) | 2 (2) |
Frequency Pattern of Pain experienced in past 6 monthsc; n (%) | ||||||||||
N | n = 53 | n = 39 | n = 14 | n = 24 | n = 18 | n = 11 | n = 41 | n = 6 | n = 4 | n = 2 |
Daily | 7 (13) | 6 (15) | 1 (7) | 4 (17) | 3 (17) | NA | 4 (10) | 2 (33) | NA | 1 (50) |
For days, then I have days or weeks free of TN | 17 (32) | 10 (26) | 7 (50) | 5 (21) | 6 (33) | 6 (55) | 13 (32) | 2 (33) | 2 (50) | 0 |
For weeks, then I have days or weeks free of TN | 4 (8) | 4 (10) | 0 | 3 (13) | 1 (6) | NA | 4 (10) | 0 | 0 | 0 |
I have months completely free of TN | 14 (26) | 10 (26) | 4 (29) | 7 (29) | 4 (22) | 3 (27) | 11 (27) | 0 | 2 (50) | 1 (50) |
I have months free of TN attacks but with a dull ache in the background | 11 (21) | 9 (23) | 2 (14) | 5 (21) | 4 (22) | 2 (18) | 9 (22) | 2 (33) | 0 | 0 |