| In patients older than 50 years, valacyclovir decreases the duration of acute pain and post-herpetic neuralgia compared with acyclovir. |
| It also can be used to treat functional disorders such as trigeminal neuralgia. |
| A 67 year old woman with secondary progressive multiple sclerosis had a recurrence of right sided trigeminal neuralgia. |
| After several investigations, including computed tomography, he had undergone a trial of carbamazepine for glossopharyngeal neuralgia. |
| For the thousands of people who have trigeminal neuralgia, attacks of such pain are frequent and can often seem unbearable. |
| Neuronal inflammation and necrosis leads to severe pain or postherpetic neuralgia, which increases as the infection travels down the nerve. |
