Success Stories

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Having recently been diagnosed with TN I have been researching the disease on the internet and have come acrsoo some very disturbing and depressing testimonials. One short film describes the trials of a poor young woman who has undergone 4 surgeries and numerous medications and has yet to achieve any permanent relief after 3.5 years of suffering. This film includes the cheery statistic that 50% of TN patients commit suicide with 2 years of diagnosis.

Please, I need some success stories!! Can anybody provide some testimonials with a better outcome?

And is the 50% statistic really true? (if you can refute please do; but don't confirm it)

Tom

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No, the 50% statistic is NOT true. It's a horrid distortion of outcomes from an early study of very limited numbers of patients under relatively uncontrolled conditions. I've been trying for years to kill this piece of misinformation.

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See also the discussion thread in our forums titled "success stories".

4

Thanks Richard! This is massive relief.