Good day, My mom has this shocking sharp pain in her head. Doctor thought it was trigeminal neuralgia. He sent her for MRI. Today she got the results, that nothing wrong was found in her head. Everything is normal. What else can cause such terrible pain like electric shock inside her head. She has this pain already for months. Thank you
I read your question and I understand your concern. The diagnosis of trigeminal neuralgia is not established by MRI. The MRI is performed because there are cases where the trigeminal neuralgia is caused by some other factor (tumor, vascular anomaly, infection, MS etc.) which could require surgery or other treatment. However, many other patients (most of them really) have trigeminal pain with a normal MRI (idiopathic neuralgia meaning the cause is not known), so if the pain is typical the diagnosis remains the same, just that those causes I mention are excluded. Treatment consists in antiepileptic class of Chat Doctor.  If that fails other means like percutaneous procedures or radiosurgery, usually done in specializes centers. Hope to have been of help. Feel free to ask further questions.