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If you’re living with trigeminal neuralgia, you already know how overwhelming it feels. One minute you’re fine, the next, a lightning bolt of searing pain shoots through your cheek, jaw, teeth or eye, triggered by something as simple as brushing your teeth, eating, talking, or even a light breeze. These attacks can strike dozens of times a day, leaving you exhausted and anxious, and causing you to avoid the very things that bring joy.
We offer a caring, specialist-led pathway to explore whether medical cannabis could provide meaningful relief and support for your trigeminal neuralgia symptoms, never a cure, but gentle, evidence-informed help when you need it most.
The condition affects around 8 in 100,000 people in the UK each year, yet its impact is life-changing for those who live with it. As one of the most intense forms of chronic pain, trigeminal neuralgia can turn everyday activities like eating, talking, or even smiling into agonising experiences.
A 2025 clinical case study reported that cannabidiol (CBD) and cannabigerol (CBG) medicinal cannabis treatment, used as add-on therapy, provided beneficial effects for a patient with trigeminal neuralgia unresponsive to standard treatments. You can read the full study here.
You‘re not alone in this. Thousands of patients across the UK have already found renewed hope through carefully tailored medical cannabis programmes.
Medical cannabis works by interacting with your body’s own endocannabinoid system – a natural network that helps regulate pain signals, inflammation and mood. For many people with trigeminal neuralgia, it offers targeted support for neuropathic pain that hasn’t responded fully to conventional medications.
We never promise miracles, but our medical partners do offer honest, personalised guidance based on the latest clinical understanding.
We’ve designed the process to feel calm, transparent and patient-first:
Everything is regulated, safe and centred around you.
Trigeminal neuralgia is a chronic neuropathic pain condition affecting the trigeminal nerve, the main sensory nerve in your face. It causes intense, stabbing or electric-shock pain, usually on one side, that can last seconds to minutes and occur up to 100 times daily.
Common symptoms include:
Yes. Many patients notice better sleep, reduced anxiety around triggers, and a greater ability to enjoy daily activities again, all important aspects of living well with trigeminal neuralgia.
When monitored by specialists, it can form part of a safe, ongoing management plan. Regular reviews ensure it continues to meet your needs with minimal side effects.
Every person is different, but some patients report initial relief within days to weeks.
It may help with severe facial pain, sleep disruption caused by night-time attacks, anxiety around triggers, and the low mood that often accompanies long-term nerve pain.
Traditional medications (such as anticonvulsants or nerve pain drugs) remain first-line options and work well for many people by stabilising overactive nerve signals. Medical cannabis is often explored as an add-on or alternative when those don’t provide enough relief or cause significant side effects like drowsiness, cognitive fog, or gastrointestinal issues. Patients sometimes report that tailored medical cannabis offers a different mechanism, helping calm neuropathic signals, reduce attack intensity, and support overall well-being, without the same profile of side effects. Our clinical partners always review your current regimen to see how it might safely complement (or, in some cases, reduce reliance on) existing treatments.
For patients in the UK who have not found relief from conventional treatments such as carbamazepine, gabapentin, or pregabalin, or have experienced challenging side effects, many begin to consider a more holistic approach to managing their symptoms.
Our specialist partners assess each case individually, looking at your diagnosis, symptom severity, medical history, and previous therapies. If it seems like a suitable supportive option, we’ll guide you through the process transparently, no one-size-fits-all. Many patients with refractory facial nerve pain find this pathway opens up new possibilities for relief.
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