My mother is 85 year old suffering from post herpetic neuralgia from past 15 months on her right ear side she is having comorbidities of diabetes congested heart chronic kidney disease and high blood pressure. She is suffering from intense pain and taking the medicine of gabamax75 and carbamazepine 200 but these medicines doesn't bring any relief.

Trigeminal Neuralgia

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Dr. Uttam SidhayePain Management Specialist25yrs exp

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Post Herpetic Neuralgia needs aggressive treatment , if she is not responding to routine medical line of treatment she needs pain block in the form of intervention and as you have mentioned she is having other comorbidities so you can think pain block to get rid of pain as there is a limitation in increasing the dose of medication

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